protests

Protestors linked to Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup this morning on a painting housed in the National Gallery, London: one of Van Gogh's Sunflower series, created in 1888. They were quoted as saying "What's worth more art or life?" (via Twitter). The picture (see below for my recent...

I predict that Tomorrow's March will be mostly Peaceful as the Marchers know they have no way of getting military support with Biden In the White House. There will. Be protests outside the white house and outside the Pentagon over Fox News rhetoric about the Afghan war, and General Milley's...

Click HERE to watch th video of North Texas Skeptics protesting Sylvia Browne This got buried in one of our other posts, so I wanted to post it separately. Wednesday of this week 4 of our North Texas Skeptics group went out with our signs to protest at the Sylvia Browne show at the Lakewood...

The death toll has been climbing all day as reports come in from Bangkok. It's up to 20 so far. "Yesterday’s clashes were the deadliest since 1992, when more than 40 demonstrators were killed during a four-day crackdown by security forces."...

lNCB story So, it is unpatriotic to pledge alligence to the flag of the United States of America if you are speaking a foreign language. Not just unpatriotic, offensive, too. As offensive as wearing a cross upside down in a church. And yet with all that stupidity, the boy manages to top...

Just a thought... You're always hearing about people protesting for access to drugs such as AZT or zevirapine (sp?) in countries with high rates of HIV/AIDS. Why aren't they demanding access to homeopathic treatment? Or, on another note, they have access to all sorts of herbal and tribal...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3654941.stm What's the big deal about?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/nyregion/23protest.html?ei=5062&en=2901e34cbb92cdb2&ex=1078117200&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position= ...full article Looks like a lot of people are going to protest at the RNC. But I can't but thinking all these people are wasting their time.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57625-2003Jul1.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88283,00.html Why are these people protesting globalization?

First let me say that I do not find protesting anti-American or unpatriotic. Redress and petitioning ones own government is a fundamental civil right that all people are entitled to. It is only corrupt governments that do not allow such from their own people. Where are the Iraqi dissenters...

So, do peace protests have any effect at all on the outcome of what goes on the world? Did protests in the 60's actually affect politics? How about now? Will peace protests have any effect or are they just a lot of noise?