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Peopleless Protest
A peopleless protest is a form of political demonstration where physical objects or symbols are placed in public spaces to represent protesters, rather than people gathering in person. This method gained prominence during periods when in-person gatherings were restricted, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Characteristics Peopleless protests typically involve three key elements: * Individuals placing symbols or objects in public spaces separately * Recording and documenting these symbols/objects * Linking the digitized records online to create a unified demonstration Common symbols used include placards, silhouettes, or other objects that represent the protesters' message. These are placed in visible public areas to draw attention. History While forms of symbolic protest have existed historically, the specific concept of "peopleless protest" emerged in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic as activists sought alternatives to in-person demonstrations. Early examples included protest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Demonstration
A political demonstration is an action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause or people partaking in a protest against a cause of concern; it often consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, in order to hear speakers. It is different from mass meeting. Demonstrations may include actions such as blockades and Sit-in, sit-ins. They can be either nonviolent or violent, with participants often referring to violent demonstrations as "Militant (word), militant." Depending on the circumstances, a demonstration may begin as nonviolent and escalate to violence. Law enforcement agency, Law enforcement, such as riot police, may become involved in these situations. Protest policing, Police involvement at protests is ideally to protect the participants and their right to assemble. However, officers don't always fulfill this responsibility and it's well-documented t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed the outbreak as having become a pandemic on 11 March. COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most commonly include fever, sore throat, nocturnal cough, and fatigue. Transmission of COVID-19, Transmission of the virus is often airborne transmission, through airborne particles. Mutations have variants of SARS-CoV-2, produced many strains (variants) with varying degrees of infectivity and virulence. COVID-19 vaccines were developed rapidly and deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reception And Identification Centers In Greece
Reception and Identification Centers in Greece, also called hotspot camps, are refugee camps for the processing of foreign nationals who come to Greece without the necessary legal formalities. In October 2019, there were a total of six such camps in Greece: five at the islands of the eastern Aegean (Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Leros and Kos) and one at the Fylakio of Evros at the northeastern border of Greece. Capacity The total capacity of the five camps on the islands was 6,178 people (the total occupancy was 38,423 people), while the Greek government was planning to create new closed structures with a capacity of 22,000 people. These structures would replace the camps of the islands and would function both as reception and identification centers and as pre-departure centers. Criticisms In 2018 Human Rights Watch called the Moria camp on Lesbos an "open air prison". In 2019 the New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Distancing
In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, (NB. Regula Venske is president of the PEN Centre Germany.) is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. It usually involves keeping a certain distance from others (the distance specified differs from country to country and can change with time) and avoiding gathering together in larger groups. By minimising the probability that a given uninfected person will come into physical contact with an infected person, the disease transmission can be suppressed, resulting in fewer deaths. The measures may be used in combination with other public health recommendations, such as good respiratory hygiene, use of face masks when necessary, and hand washing. To slow down the spread of infectious diseases and avoid overb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myanmar Protests (2021–present)
Protests in Myanmar, known locally as the Spring Revolution (, ), began in early 2021 in opposition to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état on 1 February, staged by Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces, the Tatmadaw. , at least 2000 protesters have been killed, 14,000 arrested and 700,000 displaced by the State Administration Council, military junta. Protesters mostly employed peaceful and Nonviolence, nonviolent forms of protest, which included acts of civil disobedience, labour strikes, a military boycott campaign, a pot-banging movement, a red ribbon campaign, public protests, and formal recognition of the election results by elected representatives. The colour red, which is associated with the National League for Democracy (NLD), has been donned by many protesters. "Kamba Ma Kyay Buu", a song that was first popularised as the anthem of the 8888 Uprising (1988), has been revitalised by the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Myanmar Coup D'état
A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when Elections in Myanmar, democratically elected members of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the Tatmadaw, Myanmar's military, which then vested power in a State Administration Council, military junta. Acting President of Myanmar Myint Swe proclaimed a year-long state of emergency and declared power had been transferred to Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior general (Myanmar), Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. It declared the results of the 2020 Myanmar general election, November 2020 general election invalid and stated its intent to hold a Next Myanmar general election, new election at the end of the state of emergency. The coup d'état occurred the day before the Assembly of the Union, Parliament of Myanmar was to swear in the members elected in the 2020 election, thereby preventing this from occurring. President Win Myint and State Counsellor of My ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Gathering
Mass gatherings are events attended by a sufficient number of people to strain the planning and response resources of the host community, state/province, nation, or region where it is being held. Definitions of a mass gathering generally include the following: * Planned (long term or spontaneously planned) event * “a specified number of persons (at least >1000 persons). * at a specific location, for a specific purpose (e.g. social function, public event, sporting event) for a defined period of time”. * Requires Multi-Agency Coordination Mass gatherings are usually sporting events (such as Olympic Games) or religious pilgrimages (such as Kumbh Mela or Arba'een Pilgrimage). They are highly visible and in some cases, millions of people attend them. Statistics Here is some Statistics about the latest mass gatherings in the world: 2022: July: Hajj in Mecca: 1 million September: Arba'een Pilgrimage in Karbala: 21 million 2020-2021: No more mass gathering due to COVI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MoveOn
MoveOn (formerly known as MoveOn.org) is a progressivism in the United States, progressive public policy advocacy group and political action committee. Formed in 1998 around one of the first massively viral email petitions, MoveOn has since grown into one of the largest and most impactful grassroots progressive campaigning communities in the United States, with a membership of millions. MoveOn did not endorse a candidate during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2020 presidential primary campaign; it then endorsed and actively supported Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election, general election. MoveOn endorsed Kamala Harris, the then-current Vice President of the United States, vice president of the United States, as the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party nominee for president in the 2024 United States presidential election, 2024 presidential election. Rahna Epting has been Executive Director of MoveOn Civic Action and MoveOn Politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fridays For Future
Fridays for Future (FFF), also known as the School Strike for Climate ( ), is an international movement of school students who skip Friday classes to participate in demonstrations to demand climate change mitigation, action from political leaders to climate change mitigation, prevent climate change and for the fossil fuel industry to transition to renewable energy. Publicity and widespread organising began after Swedish pupil Greta Thunberg staged a protest in August 2018 outside of the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, holding a sign that read "" ("School strike for the climate"). A global strike on 15 March 2019 gathered more than one million strikers in 2,200 strikes organised in 125 countries. On 24 May 2019, in the second global strike, 1,600 protests across 150 countries drew hundreds of thousands of strikers. The May protests were timed to coincide with the 2019 European Parliament election. The 2019 September 2019 climate strikes, ''Global Week for Future'' was a ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichstag Building
The Reichstag (; ) is a historic legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin that is the seat of the German Bundestag. It is also the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the President of Germany. The Neo-Renaissance building was constructed between 1884 and '94 in the Tiergarten district on the left bank of the River Spree to plans by the architect Paul Wallot. It housed the Reichstag (legislature) of the German Empire and subsequent Weimar Republic. The Reich's Federal Council also originally met there. The building was initially used by the Reichstag for Nazi Germany, but severe damage in the Reichstag fire of 1933 prevented further use and the Reichstag moved to the nearby Kroll Opera House. The 1933 fire became a pivotal event in the entrenchment of the Nazi regime. The building took further damage during World War II, and its symbolism made it an important target for the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin. After the war, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-violent Protests
Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. This type of action highlights the desires of an individual or group that feels that something needs to change to improve the current condition of the resisting person or group. Mahatma Gandhi is the most popular figure related to this type of protest; United Nations celebrates Gandhi's birthday, October 2, as the International Day of Non-Violence. Other prominent advocates include Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Henry David Thoreau, Etienne de la Boétie, Charles Stewart Parnell, Te Whiti o Rongomai, Tohu Kākahi, Leo Tolstoy, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King Jr., Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, James Bevel, Václav Havel, Andrei Sakharov, Lech Wałęsa, Gene S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
