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Protests In The United States
This is a list of protests in the United States. Presidents * Protests against George W. Bush (2001-2009) ** January 20, 2005, counter-inaugural protest * Protests against Barack Obama (2009-2016) ** Tea Party protests (2009-2010) * Protests against Donald Trump (2017-2020) ** Protests against Donald Trump#Presidential inauguration, January 20, 2017, counter-inagural protests ** March for Truth (2017) ** Tax March (2017) ** Impeachment March (2017) ** Not My Presidents Day (2019) ** 2019 Presidents Day protest * Protests against Joe Biden (2020-2024) ** 2020–21 United States election protests, 2020 election protests ** Gaza war protest vote movements, 2024 election protests *Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump (2025–present) **Stand Up for Science 2025 **50501 protests (2025-) **Economic Blackout (2025-) **Hands Off protests (2025-) **No Kings protest (2025) Party conventions * 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity ** Fort Hood 43 * 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Economic Blackout
The Economic Blackout refers to a series of 24-hour consumer spending boycotts that took place on February 28, 2025, in the United States, with planned boycotts for future dates including March 28. Organized by The People's Union USA activist group, the protest encouraged Americans to refrain from making any purchases for an entire day. The initiative aimed to challenge the influence of major corporations and wealthy individuals on working-class Americans, with many boycotters joining to protest the current Trump administration's rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. While the boycott gained significant attention on social media platforms, its measurable economic impact was regarded by economic analysts as inconclusive. Background The Economic Blackout occurred within a broader context of consumer activism in early 2025, particularly focusing on corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. Several major companies had recently scaled back the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Abortion Protests (2022–present)
A series of ongoing protests supporting United States abortion-rights movement, abortion rights and United States anti-abortion movement, anti-abortion counter-protests began in the United States on May 2, 2022, following the leak of a draft majority opinion for the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court case ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization'', which stated that the Constitution of the United States does not confer any reproductive rights, thus overturning ''Roe v. Wade'' and ''Planned Parenthood v. Casey''. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court officially overturned ''Roe'' and ''Casey'' in ''Dobbs'', resulting in further protests outside of the U.S. Supreme Court building and across the country, eventually to major cities across the world both in favor of and against the decision. Background Leaked draft opinion On May 2, 2022, ''Politico'' released a first draft of a majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, the authenticity of which ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walk For Life West Coast
The Walk for Life West Coast is an annual anti-abortion event held in San Francisco, California. It is held on a Saturday on or near January 22, the anniversary date of the decision in the United States Supreme Court case, ''Roe v. Wade''. The first Walk for Life was held on January 22, 2005.History: 2005 Walk for Life West Coast website. Retrieved 2021-02-01. In 2008, the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' estimated at least 10,000 people were bused in from all over the state and beyond. On Saturday, January 22, 2011, more than 40,000 people gathered for the seventh annual Walk, in downtown San Francisco. Supporters of legal abortion staged yearly counter-demonstrations, much smaller in size th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March For Women's Lives
The March for Women's Lives was a protest demonstration held on April 25, 2004 at the National Mall in Washington, D. C. There was approximately 1.3 million participants. The demonstration was led by seven groups; National Organization for Women, American Civil Liberties Union, Black Women’s Health Imperative, Feminist Majority, NARAL Pro Choice America, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The march was intended to address topics such as abortion rights, reproductive health care, women's rights, and others. Originally named the March for Freedom, the march was renamed in an effort to expand the message of "pro-choice" to include the right to have children, access to pre and post natal care, as well as sex education that were not always accessible for women of color. The Women's March was notable for its inclusivity and diversity, with participants from all walks of life, ages, races, genders, and sexual orient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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March for Life may refer to: * March for Life (Washington, D.C.), an annual pro-life gathering held in Washington, D.C. * March for Life (Paris), an annual demonstration held in Paris protesting abortion * March for Life (Prague), an annual pro-life demonstration held in Prague * March for Life and Family, an annual march against abortion held in Poland Not to be confused with: * March for Our Lives, a student-led demonstration in support of tighter gun control held in Washington, D.C. * March of the Living, an educational trip to Nazi concentration camp From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (), including subcamp (SS), subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately af ...s in Poland See also * Walk for Life West Coast {{Set index article ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's March On Washington (32593123745)
Women's March may refer to: * Women's March on Versailles, a 1789 march in Paris * Women's Sunday, a 1908 suffragette march in London * Woman Suffrage Procession, a 1913 march and rally in Washington, D.C. * Women's March (South Africa), a 1956 march in Pretoria, South Africa * March for Women's Lives, a 2004 march in Washington, D.C. * Women's Memorial March, an annual event held in Vancouver since 2009 Post-Trump Inauguration marches * 2017 Women's March, a political rally that included marches in Washington, D.C., and subsequently worldwide ** List of 2017 Women's March locations outside the United States ** Women's March on Portland ** Women's March on Seattle * 2018 Women's March * 2019 Women's March * 2020 Women's March * 2021 Women's March A women's march was held on October 2, 2021, in protest of a recent abortion law in the U.S. state of Texas, the Texas Heartbeat Act. The demonstration was announced on September 2. More than 90 organizations participated. Although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Democratic National Convention
The 2024 Democratic National Convention was a United States presidential nominating convention, presidential nominating convention in which delegates of the Democratic Party (United States), United States Democratic Party voted on their party platform and ceremonially reported their vote to nominate Vice President of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris for president and her chosen running mate Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota for vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election, 2024 presidential election. It was held from August 19 to 22, 2024, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Delegates virtually nominated Harris and Walz the first week of August. Harris is the first Black woman and first Indian woman to be the presidential nominee of a major political party in the United States, and the first Democratic presidential nominee from the Western United States. Earlier, on March 12, incumbent President Joe Biden became the presumptive nominee, run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Democratic National Committee Protests
The 2023 Democratic National Committee protests were a pro-Palestine protest turned violent. The protest organizers, the Jewish Voice for Peace and the IfNotNow movement as well as other Pro-Palestinian protesters arrived outside the DNC building on 430 South Capitol St. SE at 6:40 pm after a candlelight vigil at 3rd Street and Maryland Avenue SW. The protest forced Capitol Police to shut down several roads in the area as officers tried to deal with the protesters. The protests also showed a clear divide within the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party over the Gaza war and a clear divide within U.S. President Joe Biden's voter base. Protest The protests started on 15 November 2023 at around 6:40pm, the protesters went to the DNC building on 430 South Capitol St. SE and blocked the entrances to the Democratic National Convention, DNC while Democratic representatives and candidates, including House Minority Leader Suzan DelBene, the chairwoman of the Democratic Cong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Republican National Convention Protest Activity
2004 Republican National Convention protest activity includes the broad range of marches, rallies, performances, demonstrations, exhibits, and acts of civil disobedience in New York City to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention and the nomination of President George W. Bush for the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Hundreds of groups organized protests, including United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of more than 800 anti-war and social justice groups, and International ANSWER. Over 1800 individuals were arrested by the authorities, a record for a political convention in the U.S.New York Civil Liberties Union Recap – fact is on page 7 of the PDF. However 90% of those charges were eventually dropped. Thursday, August 26 Four young professionals and students, who called t ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Democratic National Convention Protest Activity
Protests surrounding the 2000 Democratic National Convention occurred from August 14 to August 17, 2000, around the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Lakers' victory riot Downtown Los Angeles saw rioting two months prior to the 2000 Democratic National Convention, when the Los Angeles Lakers won the 1999–2000 NBA season championship. The Lakers were in their inaugural year playing in the Staples Center (now Crypto.com Arena) downtown. On June 19, 2000, the Lakers beat the visiting Indiana Pacers, winning their first championship in twelve years. Thousands had gathered to watch the final game on a large screen outside the arena, in addition to thousands of fans inside. As soon as the game ended, the crowd of nearly 10,000 people quickly turned violent, as some began attacking property, making bonfires, beating up a Lincoln limo and two LAPD cars, flipping a news van, and setting fire to a Ford Explorer, as well as looting local businesses. All the local media channels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, thousands of U.S. troops stationed at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, were sent to Chicago for riot control duty. Several black civilians were killed. In mid-August 1968, another large group of soldiers stationed at Fort Hood was scheduled to return to Chicago in late August to control potential rioters at the Democratic National Convention The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party. They have been administered by the Democratic National Committee since the 18 .... At midnight on Friday, August 23, sixty African American troops staged a nonviolent sit-in on base to protest their deployment to Chicago. The majority of these soldiers were uncomfortable with being placed in situation where they might be asked to police other black Americans. Several of the demonstrators said they had grown up in lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
