Scores of Netflix employees walked out of the company’s Sunset Boulevard office on Wednesday and took to the sidewalk, where they chanted, “trans lives matter” and held up signs protesting Chappelle’s latest comedy special, ‘The Closer’. Activist and organizer Ashlee Marie Preston said creators need to hold Netflix accountable in …
Read More »Protesters claim Italian authorities tampered with ‘live webcam’ to show empty square instead of huge anti-vaccine-passport rally
On Monday evening, crowds gathered in the Piazza Unita d’Italia in Trieste to protest against the government’s imposition of a ‘green pass’. The government had made it a legal requirement for all workers to be vaccinated or provide a negative Covid-19 test from the previous 48 hours. Videos from the …
Read More »Protesters gather in NYC to denounce vaccine mandates for education workers & layoffs for non-compliant teachers
The protest rally kicked off outside the Big Apple’s Department of Education (DOE) facility in Brooklyn, per local reports, and later made its way across the Brooklyn Bridge, toward Manhattan. The action took place the same day a vaccine mandate for teachers came into force in the nation’s largest school …
Read More »Democrat Senator Sinema accosted by protesters after Biden calls stalking of defiant lawmakers ‘part of the process’
A woman named Karina approached Sinema on board the flight from Arizona to DC on Monday, and demanded the senator’s commitment to amnesty for illegal immigrants. She was filmed by someone from the Arizona Dream Act Coalition (ADAC), a group advocating for granting citizenship to people brought into the US …
Read More »‘Illegitimate protesters?’ Boris Johnson roasted online as he announces crackdown on climate activists over road blockades
“We can’t have people’s lives unfairly disrupted by those who are blocking motorways, gluing themselves to the tarmac,” Johnson said in a video statement published on Twitter, referring to the latest series of protests staged by Insulate Britain, a splinter group of Extinction Rebellion. “We’re taking action on illegitimate protestors …
Read More »More than 100 protesters arrested as police in Melbourne, Australia crack down on vaccine mandate demonstrators
Andrews announced on Friday that all Victoria residents working outside their homes need to have a first Covid-19 vaccine dose by October 15 and be fully vaccinated by November 26. The mandate will affect around 1.2 million Victorians, the Guardian reported, working in a range of occupations including retail, law, …
Read More »‘War criminal! Out!’ Protesters greet Hillary Clinton as she becomes chancellor of university in Northern Ireland
Clinton was inaugurated on Friday as the first-ever female chancellor of Queen’s, a public university dating back to the 1840s. She was actually appointed to the five-year term in 2020, but her installation was delayed on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. Cries of “Shame on Queen’s! Shame on you!” and …
Read More »‘Appalling’: Premier of Australia’s Victoria condemns ‘pretend’ ‘F**k the jab’ protesters in Melbourne
Andrews claimed many of the people at Tuesday’s protest in Melbourne were agitators – not real construction workers – and their “appalling” and “unlawful” conduct shouldn’t reflect on the many “fine people” he’s met in the building industry. “They’re not there to protest, they’re there for a fight,” he told …
Read More »‘F**k the jab’ protesters block Melbourne’s West Gate Freeway, clash with riot police (VIDEOS)
The government of Victoria province demanded that construction workers get vaccinated, with the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) backing the decision. Many of the workers were outraged and are planning to hold daily rallies to make their point. Tuesday’s protest started in the morning outside the CFMEU …
Read More »US Republicans call for sanctions against Australia over police treatment of protesters
On Sunday, Ben Kew – the English editor of the conservative Florida-based publication El American – declared in an article that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison “must be made to pay for such flagrant human rights violations” that have taken place against protesters and other Australians through the use of …
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