Protest Signs
 

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Ben Stone, 23, of Washington, marches during a protest against health insurance
companies that demonstrators say are derailing efforts at health care reforms,
outside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where insurance companies were holding a meeting,
in Washington, on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. -- (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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This picture reminds me of the quirky people of TFP.

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Kanye's view on the President
 

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[btr.]

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An Indonesian Muslim student throws a shoe at a banner of U.S. president
Barack Obama during a protest against his planned visit outside the
parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, March 5, 2010. Obama is
scheduled to travel later this month to the world’s most populous Muslim
country, where he lived as a boy. -- (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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Laborers hoping to help rebuild the World Trade Center site hold a rally to
urge for quicker action on the project, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 in New York.
-- (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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[source.]

For tomorrow
 

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An Indonesian protester throws a rock at riot police during an anti-government
protest outside the parliament where a parliamentary committee investigating
alleged irregularities in a bank bailout is holding a meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia,
Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Hundred of people staged the protest against the
government’s US$715 million bailout of Bank Century in 2008. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Protesting the Facebook Generation
 

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Dylan Gallagher.

[highdefinite.]

I wonder what the above is in relation to...Texas BBQ?


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Members of the Ladies in White, a group of female dissidents, are removed from
the street by security agents during a protest in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, on
March 17, 2010. Uniformed Cuban security agents prevented 'Ladies in White'
from marching on the outskirts of the capital to demand release of their jailed
husbands and sons, physically removing them when they lay down in the street in protest.
-- (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

a march 4, 2010 protest occurring as part of a california statewide effort to call attention to reductions in state support for public education...

a few shots from the Copenhagen protests
 

Thank you, unclephil. I guess that would be the state of California in his hands, but I still don't get the "signs". They look like a full ribcage, perhpas from something as massive as an elephant seal (or medium-sized whale).


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Danish police arrested more than 200 protesters who tried to infiltrate the
UN climate summit, taking place during these days in the capital city of Copenhagen.
--(When was this again? sometime late December, 2009)

I think she's pro testes

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there is no nudity in this picture. just go away with your superfluous {NSFW} you PUR
 

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Three unidentified women painted in colors of the Canadian
flag hold a banner as they take part in PETA's (People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals) picket, a protest against
the seal cull in Canada. This took place in downtown St. Petersburg,
Russia, where the temperature was −15°C at the time, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
-- (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)


personal aside:
(man, why is that every time one of my serious posts go through, it's always sandwiched in-between vulgarity? not complaining, but this is one of my bad coincidences, and I should probably bide my time for a more appropriate avenue of prior posts so that the message in the photograph is not easily lost because of the wacky nature of the post above me)

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liveevil

ninety
 

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by Lee Jordan in Bristol

author's comments:
This is Louis, 90 years of age !!!.. it was a freezing night in Bristol city, yet Louis was standing there, waiting for a hoot !
I have a real admiration for this young lady, such passion in her beliefs.. i've seen her in all conditions, waiting there with an empty road, waiting for a hoot of agreement.
During rush hour there is a hoot every ten seconds if not more, louis will give a happy nod to each approving driver, this is why the focus isn't so sharp on her face.
.. she has invited Rich and i to take some more photos when her also ninety year old friend will be with her, so expect more pics of this brave and wonderful lady.

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KICKING AT POLICE:
A protester kicked at riot police officers during a demonstration in Athens Wednesday (Feb. 24).
Unions staged a strike and citizens took to the streets in protest of Greek austerity measures.
-- (Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
 

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A woman, carrying a sign that reads in Spanish “Never again,”
attends a ceremony marking the 34th anniversary of the 1976
military coup at Argentina’s Navy Mechanics School in Buenos Aires.
The Argentinean Navy Mechanics School was converted into a
torture chamber during the 1976-83 dictatorship.
-- (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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one side...
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... and the other.
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Protesters at an Antiwar Demonstration Carry a Free Huey Banner, New York City, April 4, 1970

One more reason prohibition failed...

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by Ernest Withers, Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

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Can't remember the whole story, but this picture was taken when they tried to ban women in shorts in the early '50s...in Los Angeles, I think.[COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]

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can't ever over-represent these guys, lol

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two from Berkeley, 1969 - the golden age
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bunny protest
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this could have been my mother - she had me and my brother and sister out campaigning for McCarthy
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my two favorites
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found here

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another wacky Peta protest

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“Fake teabaggers” infiltrated Sarah Palin’s Boston Tea Party rally, which was held today (4-14) on the Common.
More photos to view if you click the image above.

[joemygod.]

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Recognizing Bloody Sunday

[libero.]

that photo reminded me of this photo I took at MegaCon back in Orlando a few years ago...is your guy from the same 'anti-Scientology' group?
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That protester MM is from "Anon" which is basically a unofficial section of 4chan.org (which is the worse place on the internet). They have adapted the Guy Faux mask as their official symbol and use it for protesting purposes. They hate Scientology and were the ones to take down their official website a few times. They got the use of the mask from "V for Vendetta" (The first picture of it from Jetee's first post is from the movie).

Here for more information (NSFW).

(I'll edit and post a pic later)

oh, I'm aware of 4chan...my middle daughter used to hang out there. Then she grew up, lol. But I read a lot of stupid shit looking over her shoulder. ah, youth...they're the future, you know. ;)

........ a GIRL on 4chan? They exist? .... I thought it was just a myth, like bigfoot or getting good advice on the internet. Wow, you learn something everyday.

oh yes, they exist...mostly they are there to absorb sexist abuse from lonely adolescent nimrods. at least that's the way it seemed to me.

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A Palestinian youth hurls stones during clashes with Israeli troops, not seen, in
Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem, Friday, March, 19, 2010. Palestinians in
east Jerusalem and the West Bank lobbed rocks at Israeli security forces, set
garbage bins and tires ablaze and torched an Israeli flag in a new outbreak of
violence over contested Jerusalem building plans and unsubstantiated rumors
about threats to the city’s holiest shrine. -- (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Photo: published by Bain News Service, image courtesy of The Library of Congress

image description:
Strikers of all enthno-socio-economic classes gather at Union Square on May Day, 1913.

I found this image while looking for photos of India, but I'm pretty certain it is in Eastern Europe somewhere.
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mm,
those bikinis look like cabbage leaves ...in eastern europe that might mean they're stuffed cabbages, while in France it might be "mon petit chou"

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From November, 1969 to June, 1971, a group called Indians of All Tribes, Inc., occupied Alcatraz Island. This group, made up of American Indians relocated to the Bay Area, was protesting against the United States government’s policies that affected them. They were protesting federal laws that took aboriginal land away from American Indians and that aimed to destroy American Indian cultures.
The Alcatraz occupation is recognized today as one of the most important events in contemporary Native American history. It was the first intertribal protest action to focus the nation’s attention on the situation of native peoples in the United States. The island occupation ignited a protest movement which culminated with the occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota in 1973. Because of the attention brought to the plight of the American Indian communities, as a result of the occupation, federal laws were created which demonstrated new respect for aboriginal land rights and for the freedom of American Indians to maintain their traditional cultures.
ps: I'll believe that when I see it.

thanks for delivering such a history-laden post, BadNick (and a reply on cabbages as well).

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What: United for Peace and Justice Anti-war National Mobilization
When: October 27th 2007
Where: Orlando, Florida at Lake Eola

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Infidel by danny.hammontree

author's comments:
Although it was raining most of the day, the United for Peace and Justice Anti-war rally at Lake Eola in Orlando, Florida, had a really good turnout. There were many speakers at the event, maybe too many, but the testimony given by Iraqi war veteran Clifton Hicks made it all worth it, as his accounts of what happened during his deployment in Iraq moved many to tears.

As the march started, the skies opened up and a deluge of rain came down. The marchers moved through the streets undeterred, and at about a mile into the march, came upon a small group of pro-war protesters that call themselves the Gathering of Eagles. These self proclaimed “real Americans” yelled hateful phrases and gave the old middle finger salute to everyone as they walked by. This conflict was pretty much over before it started, because the ratio of anti-war protesters to pro-war protesters was so great.

From the other side of the debate:

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^^ the above is actually an example of a street sign, an oddly specific one at that, but not one that denotes anything pertaining to a protest rally and/or message.
If we could not feature any more of those, as this meant to be a commons for protests signs and/or "signs of protest". Always understanding...

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like so: topic - Immigration Reform

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seen in the street of Seattle, on May Day, 2010 ; by citywalker

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seen in the street of Chicago, on May Day, 2010 ; by Ben Syverson

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seen in the streets of Los Angeles, on May Day, 2010 ; by jvoves

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taken at the rally in Wash. D.C., on May Day, 2010 ; by ep_jhu

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seen in Tucson, Arizona, on May Day, 2010 ; by Aemery Brown

/me protests unattended children...

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A Sikh shouts slogans against Taliban and Pakistani
government in front of burning tires set fire by the
protesters during a strike in Jammu, India, Tuesday,
on Feb. 23, 2010. The protest took place after the
decapitated bodies of two Sikhs were found almost a
month after they were kidnapped in Pakistan’s Khyber
tribal region. -- (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

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Vietnam Protest, Washington DC, 1970 by Marcelo Montecino

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The Birth of the Pill -- courtesy of LIFE.com

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not a 'protest sign', per se; more like a 'homeless sign'.

(still debating whether or not we need a commons, new or not, for these as well.)

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Fur Protest by Mute* ; seen in Toronto, demonstrated by 'Wild at heart'.

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Protest by ~camera-slave (seen in Australia)

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People lay underneath the iconic Wall Street bull during a rally in the financial district
against the proposed government buyout of financial firms September 25, 2008 in
New York City. In response to the global financial crisis, dozens of protesters, from
a variety of activist groups, denounced the capitalist system, Wall Street and the
Bush administration. (Getty Images) -- see more from the protest HERE.

[zimbio.]

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Riot police carried off a medical professional who blocked train tracks Tuesday in
Paris in protest of hospital working conditions. Some 2,500 nurse-anesthesiologists
blocked the high-speed train, disrupting travel for thousands of passengers.


[WSJ.]

I'm still debating whether or not I should be contributing this sort of sign here, or not (too disjointed, and really sad at times)

homeless sign
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"all the time in the world" by doom bee

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Photography by

Although war became his arena, McCullin also took extraordinary domestic photographs.
Here, those two worlds collide with two photographs of anti-war demonstrations in London from the 1960s.


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