Category: WOMEN PROTEST

Video – Pompes, self-defense et seins nus : bienvenu à l’école des femen

Elles n’ont que pour seule arme… leurs seins. Depuis 2008, les Femen se sont fait un nom en manifestant un peu partout en Europe, la poitrine à l’air. Nées en Ukraine, ces féministes activistes d’un nouveau genre ont ouvert récemment un centre d’entraînement dans le XVIIIe arrondissement à Paris, dans une petite salle perchée au 1er étage du Lavoir moderne.

Communist Terror – Pusscat Riot sentenced to 2 yeras for Punk Prayer

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  Three members of an all-girl Russian punk band were each sentenced to two years in prison Friday for staging a guerrilla performance of a song that criticized Vladimir Putin.

The members of Pussy Riot — one of whom is a permanent resident of Canada — have already been in jail for six months.

Their conviction and sentencing on Friday triggered a wave of global protests at Russian embassies in cities around the world.

Immediately after the decision was issued, Twitter came alive with supporters of the band slamming the ruling and calling on like-minded sympathizers to join demonstrations.

Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, were charged with hooliganism connected with religious hatred after they stormed into a central cathedral in Moscow and briefly performed a song that entreated the Virgin Mary to protect Russia from Putin.

Videos of the performance show masked band members jumping, kicking and punching the air near the altar of the church, while also bowing down in an apparent mockery of orthodox prayer.

It has been described as a “punk prayer,” though the judge in their trial said the obscenity-laced, flash mob-style performance showed a “complete lack of respect” for Orthodox believers and was a premeditated violation of public order.

The incident took place in February, when Putin was on the verge of winning a new term as Russian president.

In recent weeks the case has made headlines around the world and support has galvanized for the women, two of whom have young children and have not been allowed to see their families.

“It is exposing the actual concerns that we have been expressing for quite some time about the restriction on freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom of assembly,” said David Diaz-Jogeix, of the human rights advocacy group Amnesty International.

The group has been calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the band members, saying their performance did not constitute a criminal act.

A number of international pop stars have expressed their support for the group, including Paul McCartney, Madonna and Bjork.

But Diaz-Jogeix said within Russia people are also standing up for the group and going public with their support.

“No matter what the decision is, what I think is important is that the Russian society is mobilizing together with help from international countries such as Canada,” he told CTV’s Canada AM before the decision was released.

Prosecutors had asked for three-year sentences for the women, down from the possible seven-year maximum. Putin himself had said he hoped the sentencing would not be “too severe.”

Lynn Flatley, who has organized a Toronto demonstration in support of the women, said she was inspired to take action after learning about their case.

“I felt it was so wrong on so many levels I felt I had to do something. I had never done anything like this but it was a tipping point for me,” she told Canada AM.

Die regierungskritischen Musikerinnen der russischen Punk-Band Pussy Riot müssen für zwei Jahre ins Gefängnis.

Ein Moskauer Gericht verurteilte die drei jungen Frauen am Freitag wegen religiös motivierten Rowdytums. Die Bandmitglieder hatten im Februar in einer Moskauer Kathedrale den Altarraum gestürmt und in einem “Punk-Gebet” ihre Wut über Wladimir Putin zum Ausdruck gebracht. Das Verfahren wirft ein Schlaglicht auf den umstrittenen Umgang Russlands mit der Meinungsfreiheit und hat international eine Welle der Solidarität ausgelöst. Dagegen bekennen nur wenige Russen Sympathie für die Angeklagten. Die Staatsanwaltschaft hatte jeweils drei Jahre Haft gefordert.

Der Vorwurf “Rowdytum aus religiösem Hass” hätte den Angeklagten im Alter von 22, 24 und 30 Jahren bis zu sieben Jahre Gefängnis eintragen können. Die Richterin bezeichnete bei der Verlesung des Strafmaßes das Vorgehen der Frauen in der Kirche als Blasphemie und Sakrileg. Die in Handschellen gelegten Angeklagten hatten ihren Schuldspruch zuvor schweigend vernommen. Nach Meinung der Pussy-Riot-Aktivistinnen und ihrer Unterstützer steht der Prozess für die Gefährdung von Freiheitsrechten. “Unsere Inhaftierung ist ein klares und eindeutiges Signal, dass dem ganzen Land die Freiheit genommen werden soll”, schrieb die Angeklagte Nadeschda Tolokonnikowa aus der Untersuchungshaft.

 

 

TOP-SECRET – UNVEILED – Pussy Riot in Court Photos

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The feminist punk group Pussy Riot performs during a flash-mob-style protest at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

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Members of the Russian radical feminist group ‘Pussy Riot’ stage a performance to support detained opposition activists on a roof near the detention centre, which houses prominent opposition figures Ilya Yashin and Alexei Navalny, in Moscow December 14, 2011. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is in little immediate danger of being toppled by a wave of opposition protests but they could mark the beginning of the end for him if he does not make changes to restore his legitimacy. Courts have also sentenced two prominent opposition figures, Yashin and Navalny, to 15 days in jail for their roles in the protests.

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Members of the Russian radical feminist group Pussy Riot give an interview to the Associated Press in a break during their rehearsal in Moscow, Friday, Feb. , 17, 2012. Members of the group stage performances against the policies conducted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, left, a member of feminist punk group Pussy Riot is escorted to a court room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. Prosecutors on Tuesday called for three-year prison sentences for feminist punk rockers who gave an impromptu performance in Moscow’s main cathedral to call for an end to Vladimir Putin’s rule, in a case that has caused international outrage and split Russian society.

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Maria Alekhina, second right, a member of feminist punk group Pussy Riot is escorted to a court room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012.

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Yekaterina Samutsevich, left, a member of feminist punk group Pussy Riot is escorted to a court room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. [Image]

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (3rd L), Yekaterina Samutsevich (3rd R) and Maria Alyokhina (R), members of female punk band “Pussy Riot”, are escorted by police before a court hearing in Moscow August 8, 2012. A state prosecutor on Tuesday demanded a three-year jail term for three women from punk band Pussy Riot, saying they had abused God when they burst into a Moscow cathedral and sang a “protest prayer” against the Russian Orthodox Church’s close links to Vladimir Putin.

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Members of a female punk band ‘Pussy Riot’ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (L), Maria Alyokhina (C) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (R), sit inside a glass enclosure during a court hearing in Moscow on August 8, 2012. Members of the all-girl band Pussy Riot who were charged with hooliganism for staging a ‘punk prayer’ against Vladimir Putin were due Wednesday to deliver final statements on the last day of their trial. The controversial hearings raced toward a verdict with prosecutors seeking a three-year sentence and global calls mounting among stage stars and top Western officials to win the young women’s release.

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Members of a female punk band ‘Pussy Riot’ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (L), Maria Alyokhina (C) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (R), sit inside a glass enclosure during a court hearing in Moscow on August 8, 2012.

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, August 8, 2012

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Maria Alyokhina, August 8, 2012

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Yekaterina Samutsevich, August 8, 2012

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Pussy Riot members, from left, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized the feminist punk rockers facing trial for performing a “punk prayer” against him at Moscow’s main cathedral, but said that a punishment for them shouldn’t be too severe.

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Maria Alekhina, left, Yekaterina Samutsevich, top right, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, members of feminist punk group Pussy Riot seen behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Russia, Monday, July 30, 2012. Three members of the band are facing trial for performing a “punk prayer” against Vladimir Putin from a pulpit of Moscow’s main cathedral before Russia’s presidential election in March, in which he won a third term.

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A file picture taken on July 20, 2012 shows members of the all-girl punk band ‘Pussy Riot’ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (C), Maria Alyokhina (R) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (L), sitting behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow. Prosecutors asked a Moscow court to lock up members of the Pussy Riot girl band for three years after they called for Vladimir Putin’s ouster in a song, prompting Madonna to plead for clemency. As the full hearings in the controversial trial went into a second week, the state prosecutor said the young women’s crime was so severe they needed to be isolated from society.

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of female Russian punk band Pussy Riot, sits inside a defendants cage in a Moscow court, on July 4, 2012, during the hearings on the Pussy Riot case. Three members of the all-woman punk band ‘Pussy Riot’ were detained two months ago, after they climbed on the altar of Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral — the country’s central place of worship — and sang a song they called a ‘Punk Prayer’. The women have been charged with hooliganism committed by an organised group — an unusually harsh charge for protesters.

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of punk band Pussy Riot, gestures behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow April 19, 2012. Russian police detained at least 13 people who demonstrated outside a courthouse on Thursday against the arrest of three members of a women’s punk rock group that performed a protest song in Moscow’s main cathedral, witnesses said.

FEMEN Protest EURO 2012 – Uncensored

FEMEN Protest EURO 2012

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An activist of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN wearing a penis costume stands in position on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty

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An activist of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN wearing a penis costume stands in position on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty

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Police detain activists of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN during a protest on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty [Woman appears to have a cellphone in pants.]

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Police detain an activist of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN during a protest on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty

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Police detain an activist of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN during a protest on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty

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Police detain an activist of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN during a protest on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty

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Police detain an activist of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN during a protest on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty

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Police detain activists of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN during a protest on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty

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Police detain activists of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN during a protest on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty

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Police detain activists of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN during a protest on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine. Getty

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Police detain activists of Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN during a protest on a flower bed in the form of EURO 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko as another activist sprays a slogan on the grass in Independence Square in Kiev on May 31, 2012. The protest was held to oppose the staging of the Euro 2012 football championships in the Ukraine.

Unveiled – Women Protest Worldwide Mayday 2012

Women Protest Worldwide Mayday 2012
[Image]A demonstrator grimaces after she was pepper sprayed by Israeli troops during a protest calling for the release prisoners jailed in Israel outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday May 1, 2012. (Majdi Mohammed)

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[Image]A female protester associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement is arrested while marching through traffic in lower Manhattan on May 1, 2012 in New York City. May 1st, Labor Day, is a traditional day of global protest in sympathy with union and leftist politics. Getty

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[Image]An Occupy demonstrator confronts a police officer during rally in the streets as part of a nation-wide May Day protest in Oakland, California May 1, 2012. Reuters
[Image]An Israeli soldier restrains a Palestinian protester, grimacing after being hit by ‘skunk’ liquid after she was forced down from atop an Israeli military vehicle where she stood waving her national flag, during a protest by some 300 people outside Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 1, 2012 in a show of support for prisoners held in Israeli jails. Clashes erupted between stone-throwing youths and the Israeli army, who fired tear gas, rubber bullets and a foul-smelling liquid known as ‘skunk’ to break up the demonstration. Getty

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[Image]Members of Occupy DC and union activists chant slogans in front of the White House during a May Day protest in Washington on May 1, 2012. More than 20 arrests were reported in various cities, including 10 at Los Angeles international airport and others in Oakland and Seattle, where shop windows were smashed. Getty
[Image]Protesters associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement march through traffic in lower Manhattan on May 1, 2012 in New York City. May 1st, Labor Day, is a traditional day of global protest in sympathy with union and leftist politics. Getty
[Image]Riot police charge during clashes between police and mostly left-wing protesters in the May Day demonstrations on May 1, 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. May 1st, also known as Labor Day, is a traditional day of global protest in sympathy with union and leftist politics. Getty
[Image]Indian laborers shots slogans during a rally to mark May Day in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Placards in Gujarati read, ” strictly enforce all labor laws in the state”, bottom left and ” Pay Rupees 500 as monthly allowance to workers of the non-organized sector”, bottom right. (Ajit Solanki)
[Image]Occupy Wall Street protesters picket during a May Day rally in front of the Bank of America buidling on May 1, 2012 in New York City. Demonstrators have called for nation-wide May Day strikes to protest economic inequality and political corruption. Getty
[Image]Bahraini Shiite Muslim women take part in a Labour Day pro-democracy protest in the Manama suburb of Sanabis on May 1, 2012. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Shiite villages in Bahrain to demand being reinstated in jobs from which they were fired during last year’s uprising, witnesses said. Getty
[Image]A Bahraini anti-government protester runs from riot police dispersing a Labor Day demonstration in support of people fired from their jobs for political activity Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Sitra, Bahrain, southeast of the capital of Manama. Also on Tuesday, a jailed Bahraini rights activist will not end his nearly three-months hunger strike despite a court-ordered review of his conviction and life sentence, his wife said, as sporadic clashes broke out around the Gulf kingdom. (Hasan Jamal)
[Image]Kashmiri Muslim woman workers of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) shouts slogans against the government on May Day in Srinagar India, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. May Day moved beyond its roots as an international workers’ holiday to a day of international protest Tuesday, with rallies throughout Asia demanding wage increases and marches planned across Europe over government-imposed austerity measures. AP
[Image]Students and workers carry red flags during a May Day protest in central Athens May 1, 2012. Thousands of workers across southern Europe protested against spending cuts in annual May Day rallies on Tuesday, before weekend elections in Greece and France where voters are expected to punish leaders for austerity. Reuters
[Image]In this photograph taken by AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, National Guestworkers Alliance, Act Up Philadelphia and Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia protest outside of the Hershey’s annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Hershey, Penn. AP
[Image]Cambodian protesters chain their hands as they block the road in front of Cambodia’s National Assembly in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. The demonstrators on Tuesday began what they said would be a week-long protest to pressure the government for the titles. They said they were residents of Phnom Penh’s Boueng Kak lake area whose land was awarded by the government to a Chinese company to be redeveloped commercially. AP
[Image]A Bangladeshi veiled woman participates in a march to celebrate May Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. May Day moved beyond its roots as an international workers’ holiday to a day of international protest Tuesday, with rallies throughout Asia demanding wage increases and marches planned across Europe over government-imposed austerity measures. AP
[Image]Supporters of the Lebanese Communist party, wave Lebanese flags with the Communist sign printed on them and chant slogans against the Lebanese government, during a demonstration to mark Labor Day, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. More than 3000 members of the Lebanese Communist party marched in Beirut Streets to mark May Day, using the occasion to protest the worsening economic conditions in the country. (Bilal Hussein)
[Image]Protesters block traffic on 42nd Street and 6th Avenue, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes spread out over New York City Tuesday on International Workers Day, or May Day, with Occupy Wall Street members leading a charge against financial institutions. (Mary Altaffer)
[Image]A coalition of activists join Occupy Wall Street in a May Day march from Bryant Park on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes spread out over New York City on International Workers Day, or May Day, with Occupy Wall Street members leading a charge against financial institutions. (Bebeto Matthews)
[Image]May Day moved beyond its roots as an international workers’ holiday to a day of international protest Tuesday, with rallies throughout Asia demanding wage increases and marches planned across Europe over government-imposed austerity measures.Thousands of workers protested in the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan and other Asian nations, with the demand for wage hikes amid soaring oil prices a common theme.
[Image]A protester is arrested during a May Day march and protest in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy Wall Street members in several cities leading demonstrations and in some cases clashing with police. (Don Ryan)
[Image]A demonstrator, who wished not to give her name, stands in front of the Georgia Capitol for a May Day immigration rally Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Atlanta. The May Day rally at the Capitol Tuesday that organizers called a “historic coming together” of immigrants and working people was significantly smaller than in recent years, drawing only about 100 people. (David Goldman)
[Image]Protesters march through the streets, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes spread out over New York City Tuesday on International Workers Day, or May Day, with Occupy Wall Street members leading a charge against financial institutions. (Mary Altaffer)

 

 

	


	



			
				


			

			
Women Protest – Afghan Young Women Protest Killing Women
		
	
	

		








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[Image]An Afghan woman holds up a poster during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 14, 2012. A group of Afghan women protested against domestic violence. The poster reads: “Where is justice”. (Musadeq Sadeq)




[Image]Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read ‘where is justice?’, take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan women in less than a month in three provinces of the country. Getty




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[Image]Afghan policemen keep watch during a protest by Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan women in less than a month in three provinces of the country.










	


	



			
				


			
				


			

			
FEMEN uncensored – Alarm, alarm!
		
	
	

		
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April 10 at 10:00 AM 5 beauties of FEMEN imprisoned himself in the bell tower of Saint Sophia Cathedral. By adopting a canonical form, the activist hit all the bells and launched a 7-meter long banner with the slogan “STOP”. Alarm alarm alerted the eternal city of gangster conspiracy of church and state, which aims to impose a government on the control of the sacred feminine gift of procreation. Signified whoring was reflected in the bill number 10 170 on deprivation of women’s right to abortion.

	


	



			
				


			

			
Uncensored – FEMEN Protest Islam Oppression of Women in Paris
		
	
	

		
















[Image]Topless activists of the Ukrainian women movement Femen hold placards as they protest against anti women’s politic of Islam on March 31, 2012 in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero in Paris. The idea of protest is to call muslim women to fight againsts Sharia laws. Getty




[Image]Topless activists of the Ukrainian women movement Femen hold placards as they protest against anti women’s politic of Islam on March 31, 2012 in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero in Paris. The idea of protest is to call muslim women to fight againsts Sharia laws. Getty




[Image]Topless activists of the Ukrainian women movement Femen hold placards as they protest against anti women’s politic of Islam on March 31, 2012 in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero in Paris. The idea of protest is to call muslim women to fight againsts Sharia laws. Getty




[Image]Topless activists of the Ukrainian women movement Femen hold placards as they protest against anti women’s politic of Islam on March 31, 2012 in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero in Paris. The idea of protest is to call muslim women to fight againsts Sharia laws. Getty




[Image]Topless activists of the Ukrainian women movement Femen hold placards as they protest against anti women’s politic of Islam on March 31, 2012 in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero in Paris. The idea of protest is to call muslim women to fight againsts Sharia laws. Getty




[Image]A topless activist of the Ukrainian women movement Femen hold placards as they protest against anti women’s politic of Islam on March 31, 2012 at the Trocadero in Paris. The idea of protest is to call muslim women to fight againsts Sharia laws. Getty




[Image]A topless activist of the Ukrainian women movement Femen holds a placard as she protests against anti women’s politic of Islam on March 31, 2012 in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero in Paris. The idea of protest is to call muslim women to fight againsts Sharia laws. Getty




[Image]Topless activists of the Ukrainian women movement Femen hold placards as they protest against anti women’s politic of Islam on March 31, 2012 in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero in Paris. The idea of protest is to call muslim women to fight againsts Sharia laws.





	


	



			
				


			

			
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[Image]A supporter of a female Russian punk band holds a photo placard of the band while she and others picket the Moscow Central Court in Moscow, Wednesday, March, 14, 2012. Supporters of a female Russian punk band have picketed Central Court in Moscow to protest the group’s jailing for trying to mount an impromptu concert inside the city’s main cathedral.




[Image]Animals rights activists protest during a demonstration calling for the abolition of bullfights in Valencia March 18, 2012. Placards read, “They killed me this Fallas festival”. Reuters




[Image]A demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest against Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad in front of the Beyazit mosque in Istanbul March 18, 2012. Reuters




[Image]Women shout slogans as they protest against the suicide of Amina al-Filali, 16 who was forced to marry the man who raped her outside parlament in Rabat on March 17, 2012. They called for changes to a penal code that allows a rapist to stay out of jail if he marries his victim with the consent of her parents. Sign reads ” Rape me, Marry me, My life is futile , I am maroocan”. Getty




[Image]Women clap during a Polish minority protest about the autonomy of their schools in Vilnius March 17, 2012. They demonstrated against the lack of regard for ethnic minorities seen in a law which enforced that history and geography lessons must be taught in Lithuanian at all schools, as well as the sole use of Lithuanian from 2013 in all pre-university exams taken by students to enable them to study at local universities, according to local media. Reuters




[Image]Russian opposition supporters shout during a rally in central Moscow, on March 17, 2012. The rally was originally announced as campaigning for the release of Udaltsov, the radical leftwing leader of the Left Front movement, who was sentenced on Thursday to 10 days in jail for defying police at an earlier rally and participants protest against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s rule. Getty




[Image]Protesters affiliated with Occupy Wall Street participate in a ‘spring training’ protest outside the New York Stock Exchange on March 16, 2012 in New York City. The movement is planning an upcoming series of ‘spring training’ protests ahead of its planned ‘May Day’ strike. Getty




[Image]A mother carries a picture of her son, a kidnapped student, as she joins relatives of other kidnapped students during a protest march against violence in downtown Monterrey March 16, 2012. Relatives of victims and students from different universities marched on Friday to demand the government to stop violence, kidnapping and denouncing the forced disappearance. The banner reads, “Student kidnapped on January 11, 2011”. Reuters




[Image]Writer and activist Starhawk (ground) demonstrates how to act when being arrested during the “Occupy the Midwest” regional conference in St. Louis, Missouri March, 16, 2012. Two demonstrators were charged on Friday with assaulting a police officer following the arrests of 15 people at the start of a Midwest protest designed to help reinvigorate the “Occupy” movement against economic inequality. Reuters




[Image]Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim, second left attends a rally while fellow activists chant anti Military Supreme Council slogans during a protest in Tahrir square, Cairo, Egypt Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Egyptian activists protested a military tribunal verdict acquitting an army doctor of an accusation of public obscenity filed by a protester who claimed she was forced to undergo a virginity test while in detention among seven women detained by the military a year ago. (Nasser Nasser)




[Image]A member of Socialist Unity Center of India (SUCI) shouts slogans as she participates in a rally in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. The protest was against a price hike on essential commodities as well as rampant corruption. (Saurabh Das)




[Image]Activists wear costume and masks of endangered animals during a protest against animal cruelty outside the Supreme Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Animal protection activists staged the protest demanding Supreme Court to bring to justice palm oil companies that involved in the killings of orangutans in central Borneo last year. (Tatan Syuflana)




[Image]Costumed protesters shout slogans outside Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) during an anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo, Sunday, March 11, 2012. Japan marked Sunday the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which devastated the northeast Japan cities and triggered a massive accident of Fukushima nuclear power plant, run by TEPCO. (Junji Kurokawa)




[Image]Relatives of missing Kashmiri youth participate in a protest demonstration organized by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) in Srinagar, India, Saturday, March 10, 2012. According to APDP some 8,000-10,000 people have gone missing since the beginning of the Kashmir conflict in 1989, after being arrested by Indian security forces and other security agencies. (Dar Yasin)




[Image]A demonstrator tries to scale a barrier to enter the Cambridge University Students’ Union to protest against speech being given to students by former International Monetary Fund chief Dominic Strauss-Kahn, in Cambridge, England, Friday, March 9, 2012. The 62-year-old French politician, often called DSK, was invited to speak at the university’s debating society despite calls for the event to be canceled. (Sang Tan)




[Image]A woman protests against violence against women during a demonstration marking the International Women’s Day in Mexico City, Thursday March 8, 2012. (Alexandre Meneghini)




[Image]Female protesters raise their clenched fists as they shout slogans during a rally in celebration of International Women’s Day Thursday, March 8, 2012 near the presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. The protesters denounced President Benigno Aquino III and the three big Filipino oil companies for a series of oil price hike as well as U.S. military’s presence in the country. (Pat Roque)




 


[Image]South African protestors march downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday March 7, 2012. Tens of thousands of South Africans marched peacefully through their main cities in a protest organized by the country’s biggest trade union federation against economic decisions made by the governing African National Congress. The Congress of South African Trade Unions, known as COSATU, is a close ally of the ANC, but often among its sharpest critics. (Jerome Delay)





[Image]A woman carries posters with photos of activists of human rights allegedly killed during a march to mark the International Day of Victims of State Crimes and ask the government for the restitution of land for victims of the country’s prolonged armed conflict and protection for activists in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday March 6, 2012. (Fernando Vergara)




[Image]Russian police officers detain opposition activists during a protest against alleged vote rigging in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, March 5, 2012. More then 100 protesters were arrested in St. Petersburg, where some 2,000 gathered for an unauthorized rally to protest Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s victory in Russian presidential election. (Dmitry Lovetsky)


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UNCENSORED – FEMEN Protest Putin Election – Pictures
		
	
	

		









[Image]Police officers detain one of the activists of Ukrainian group Femen trying to protest at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012, shortly after Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin cast his ballot. The sign on the girl reads: ‘I steal for Putin!’ The slogan refers to the term ‘party of crooks and thieves’ to describe Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Russians voted today in presidential polls expected to return Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Getty




[Image]Police officers detain activists of Ukrainian group Femen trying to protest at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012, shortly after Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin cast his ballot. The sign on the front girl reads: ‘I steal for Putin!’ The slogan reffers to the term ‘party of crooks and thieves’ to describe Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Russians voted today in presidential polls expected to return Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Getty




[Image]Polling station officials clash with topless members of Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN members at a polling station in Moscow on Sunday, March 4, 2012. Written on the bodies of the radically anti-Putin protesters is the slogan “I steal for Putin”, referring to their symbolic act of trying to steal votes. Polling stations have opened across Russia’s vast expanse for the presidential election widely expected to return Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin. (Misha Japaridze)




[Image]Police officers detain activists of Ukrainian group Femen trying to protest at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012, shortly after Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin cast his ballot. The sign on the front girl reads: ‘I steal for Putin!’ The slogan reffers to the term ‘party of crooks and thieves’ to describe Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Russians voted today in presidential polls expected to return Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Getty




[Image]Police officers detain activists of Ukrainian group Femen trying to protest at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012, shortly after Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin cast his ballot. Russians voted today in presidential polls expected to return Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Getty




[Image]Police officers detain activists of Ukrainian group Femen trying to protest at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012, shortly after Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin cast his ballot. The sign on the front girl reads: ‘I steal for Putin!’ The slogan reffers to the term ‘party of crooks and thieves’ to describe Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Russians voted today in presidential polls expected to return Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Getty




[Image]Police officers detain activists of Ukrainian group Femen trying to protest at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012, shortly after Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin cast his ballot. Russians voted today in presidential polls expected to return Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Getty




[Image]Police officers detain one of the activists of Ukrainian group Femen trying to protest at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012, shortly after Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin cast his ballot. The sign on the girl reads: ‘I steal for Putin!’ The slogan refers to the term ‘party of crooks and thieves’ to describe Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Russians voted today in presidential polls expected to return Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination.




[Image]Police officers detain one of the activists of Ukrainian group Femen trying to protest at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012, shortly after Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin cast his ballot. The sign on the girl reads: ‘I steal for Putin!’ The slogan refers to the term ‘party of crooks and thieves’ to describe Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Russians voted today in presidential polls expected to return Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Getty




[Image]Police officers detain one of the activists of Ukrainian group Femen trying to protest at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012, shortly after Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin cast his ballot. The sign on the girl reads: ‘I steal for Putin!’ The slogan refers to the term ‘party of crooks and thieves’ to describe Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Russians voted today in presidential polls expected to return Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Getty




Fashion Week Milan Protest




[Image]Members of the radical feminist group Femen protest at the entrance of the Versace Fall-winter 2012-2013 show on February 24, 2012 during the Women’s fashion week in Milan. Getty




[Image]Members of the radical feminist group Femen are blocked by police as they protest at the entrance of the Versace Fall-winter 2012-2013 show on February 24, 2012 during the Women’s fashion week in Milan.
































	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
UNCENSORED – FEMEN Protests Gazprom Moscow
		
	
	

		









[Image]An activists of the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN braves the cold (-22 C, but due to high humidity and wind, weather experts said it would feel more like -31 C) and resists the guards in front of the Russia’s natural gas monopoly giant Gazprom headquarters in central Moscow, on February 13, 2012, during their topless protest against what they called “anti–Ukraine gas terror. Getty




[Image]EDS NOTE NUDITY – Employees of Gazprom carry a Femen activist who staged a protest outside Gazprom headquarters, Moscow, Monday, Feb., 13, 2012. Activists of the Ukrainian group Femen protested in front of the Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom, blaming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Gazprom of subjugating Ukraine and Europe at large. (Sergey Ponomarev)




[Image]An activist of the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN braves the cold (-22 C, but due to high humidity and wind, weather experts said it would feel more like -31 C) and resists the guard in front of the Russia’s natural gas monopoly giant Gazprom headquarters in central Moscow, on February 13, 2012, during their topless protest against what they called “anti–Ukraine gas terror. Getty




[Image]EDS NOTE NUDITY A Gazprom guard tries to block activists of FEMEN, as they stage protest outside Gazprom headquarters in Moscow, Monday, Feb., 13, 2012. Activists of the Ukrainian group FEMEN, in a topless protest action in front of the Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom blamed prime minister Vladimir Putin and Gazprom of subjugating Ukraine and Europe at large. (Sergey Ponomarev)




[Image]Activists of the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN brave the cold (-22 C, but due to high humidity and wind, weather experts said it would feel more like -31 C) in front of the Russia’s natural gas monopoly giant Gazprom headquarters in central Moscow, on February 13, 2012, during their topless protest against what they called “anti–Ukraine gas terror. Getty




[Image]Activists of the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN brave the cold (-22 C, but due to high humidity and wind, weather experts said it would feel more like -31 C) in front of the Russia’s natural gas monopoly giant Gazprom headquarters in central Moscow, on February 13, 2012, during their topless protest against what they called “anti–Ukraine gas terror. Getty




[Image]Activists of the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN brave the cold (-22 C, but due to high humidity and wind, weather experts said it would feel more like -31 C) in front of the Russia’s natural gas monopoly giant Gazprom headquarters in central Moscow, on February 13, 2012, during their topless protest against what they called “anti–Ukraine gas terror. Getty




[Image]Activists of the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN brave the cold (-22 C, but due to high humidity and wind, weather experts said it would feel more like -31 C) in front of the Russia’s natural gas monopoly giant Gazprom headquarters in central Moscow, on February 13, 2012, during their topless protest against what they called “anti–Ukraine gas terror. Getty




[Image]An activists of the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN braves the cold (-22 C, but due to high humidity and wind, weather experts said it would feel more like -31 C) in front of the Russia’s natural gas monopoly giant Gazprom headquarters in central Moscow, on February 13, 2012, during their topless protest against what they called “anti–Ukraine gas terror. Getty




[Image]A Femen activist stages a protest outside Gazprom headquarters, Moscow, Monday, Feb. , 13, 2012. Activists of the Ukrainian group Femen protested in front of the Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom, blaming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Gazprom of subjugating Ukraine and Europe at large.











 


































	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
New FEMEN Video uncensored – Голые клюшки
		
	
	

		


На этой неделе активистки украинской феминистской организации FEMEN отметились в Цюрихе, где устроили очередную голую акцию протеста около заснеженного входа в здание Международной федерации хоккея.


Обнаженные украинки держали плакаты с надписями на английском языке, гласящими, что “раб не играет в хоккей”, и призывали не путать чемпионат мира с диктатурой.


Поводом для акции протеста послужило участие сборной Белоруссии в чемпионате мира по хоккею, который пройдет в мае этого года в Финляндии и Швеции. Сборная Украины играет в дивизионе 1А (чемпионат этой группы состоится в апреле в Словении).


К властям Белоруссии и лично к президенту Александру Лукашенко у активисток FEMEN отношение особое: в декабре они подверглись жестоким издевательствам после акции протеста в Минске.


Не чужды украинские феминистки и спортивной жизни: в прошлом году они устроили несколько акций протеста во время официальных мероприятий по подготовке футбольного чемпионата Европы 2012. Тогда дамы из FEMEN возмущались по поводу “торговли женщинами” в Европе.


Судя по всему, в Швейцарии девушки из FEMEN чувствуют себя комфортно. Неделю назад они протестовали перед воротами Давосского форума.

	


	



			
				


			

			
UNCENSORED – FEMEN Protests Hockey World Cup in Zurich
		
	
	

		
















[Image]Activists from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN shout slogans during a topless protest on February 1st, 2012, in Zurich against the Hockey world cup in 2014 in Belarus. Getty




[Image]Activists from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN shout slogans and brandish placards during a topless protest on February 1st, 2012, in Zurich against the Hockey world cup in 2014 in Belarus. Getty




[Image]Activists from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN shout slogans during a topless protest on February 1st, 2012, in Zurich against the Hockey world cup in 2014 in Belarus. Getty




[Image]Activists from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN shout slogans and hold placards during a topless protest on February 1st, 2012, in Zurich against the Hockey world cup in 2014 in Belarus.




[Image]Activists from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN shout slogans and carry hockey sticks during a topless protest on February 1st, 2012, in Zurich against the Hockey world cup in 2014 in Belarus. Getty




[Image]Activists from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN shout slogans and carry hockey sticks during a topless protest on February 1st, 2012, in Zurich against the Hockey world cup in 2014 in Belarus. Getty




[Image]Half-naked activists from Ukrainian women’s rights movement Femen, demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the International Ice Hockey Federation in Zurich, February 1, 2012. Femen activists staged a protest on Wednesday to draw attention on the political situation in Belarus before the Hockey World Cup in 2014. Getty




[Image]An activist from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN stands near barbed wire during a topless protest on February 1st, 2012, in Zurich against the Hockey world cup in 2014 in Belarus. Getty





	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
Uncensored – Femen topless protest : ‘Gangsta party in Davos’
		
	
	

		


Three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained on Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world’s poor. After a complicated journey to reach the heavily guarded Swiss resort town of Davos, the women arrived at the entrance to the congress centre where the World Economic Forum takes place every year. With temperatures around freezing in the snow-filled town, they took off their tops and climbed a fence before being detained. Davos police spokesman Thomas Hobi said the three women were taken to the police station and their papers were checked. The activists are from the group Femen, which has become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests to highlight a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. They have also conducted protests in some other countries.

	


	



			
				


			

			
Uncensored – FEMEN.— Woman Power.Missions.Goals.Actions.
		
	
	

		


FEMEN. Woman Power.


WE ARE THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT

We unite young women basing on the principles of social awareness and activism, intellectual and cultural development.

We recognise the European values of freedom, equality and comprehensive development of a person irrespective of the gender.

We build up a national image of feminity, maternity and beauty based on the Euro-Athlantic Women’s Movements experience.

We set up brand new standards of the civil movement in Ukraine.

We have worked out our own unique form of a civil self-expression based on courage, creativity, efficiency and shock.

We demonstrate that the civil movements can influence the public opinion and lobby the interests of a target group.

We plan to become the biggest and the most influential feminist movement in Europe.


OUR MISSION


The mission of the “FEMEN” Movement is to create the most favorable conditions for the young women to join up into a social group with the general idea of the mutual support and social responsibility, helping to reveal the talents of each member of the Movement.


OUR GOALS


To react and influence the acute social issues of the Ukrainian society, especially those that directly touch upon the interests of the Ukrainian Women.

To counteract actively the negative tendencies endangering physical and mental health of the Ukrainian women community.

Inform the society of the Ukrainian women’s issues and problems.

To develop leadership, intellectual and moral qualities of the young women in Ukraine.

To build up the image of Ukraine, the country with great opportunities for women.

To establish cooperation with other international women’s organizations to carry out the large-scale international programmes on the territory of Ukraine.


OUR ACTIONS


Subway — Movement – Life: The Joint Action with Kyiv underground authorities targeted on improving the image of the underground.


No Water in the Tap — I Wash in Maydan: Action against hot water cut offs in Kyiv hostels.


Ukraine is not a Brothel: The national programme aimed at fighting against the sexual tourism in Ukraine.


A Letter to the Minister: The Appeal to the governmental authorities with the demands to impose sanctions on sexual tourism in Ukraine on the legislation level.


Bromide Deactivation Action: The Picket outside the Turkish Republic Embassy. Turkish citizen are the most active sexual tourists in our country.


Dirty Games: The Action against the pre-term parliamentary elections in Ukraine.


Civil Solidarity Action A Rescue Buoy: The action in support of the Ukrainian sailors held hostage by Somalia Pirates.


No More Games, Mr Gainer: The Action within the frames of the Sex Tourtism Fighting Programme held at the National Security Service Office Building and targeted on the citizen of the USA, Mr David Gainer, the organizer of the sex-tours to Ukraine. There was a letter sent to the Foreign Office and Consulate with the demands to start the investigation and deportation of the man.


OUR PROGRAMMES


“Ukraine is not a Brothel”: The National Programme targeted at fighting against the sex-tourism in Ukraine.

“Sex is not for Sale”: The Programme to fight against sex and porn industry in Ukraine.

“MATER FEST”: The first international festival of a modern women culture.

«Kyiv Glam Sprint 2009»: The Ukrainian analogue of the international movement “Race on high hills”.

“The Green Mile”: The Programme to abolish the lifetime sentence for women in Ukraine.

Emergency programme: The Programme of immediate reacting on the acute issues that includes street actions and performances.


The following mass media reported on the FEMEN actions:


Der Spiegel

Die Welt

Independent.ie

Korrespondent.net

Gelf Magazine

Korrespondent

Kyiv Post

Jetzt.de


OUR CONTACTS


Anna Gutsol

+3 8(097) 96 71 753

anna.hutsol@mail.ru

	


	



			
				


			

			
UNCENSORED – FEMEN Protests at World Economic Forum
		
	
	

		



















[Image]Activists of the Ukrainian feminist nudity group FEMEN clash with Swiss police during a protest at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (Jean-Christophe Bott)




[Image]EDS NOTE NUDITY Topless Ukrainian protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (Anja Niedringhaus)




[Image]Topless Ukrainian protesters climb up a fence at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (Anja Niedringhaus)




[Image]EDS NOTE NUDITY – Topless Ukrainian protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (Anja Niedringhaus)




[Image]EDS NOTE NUDITY- A topless Ukrainian protester is arrested by Swiss police after climbing up a fence at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (Anja Niedringhaus)




[Image]Topless Ukrainian protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (Anja Niedringhaus)




[Image]A topless Ukrainian protester is arrested by Swiss police after climbing up a fence at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (Anja Niedringhaus)




[Image]Topless Ukrainian protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (Anja Niedringhaus)




[Image]An activist from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN shouts slogans as she is arrested by Swiss police during a topless protest on January 28, 2012, against the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting on January 28, 2012 in the Swiss resort of Davos. Getty




[Image]An activist from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN shouts slogans as she is arrested by Swiss police during a topless protest on January 28, 2012, against the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting on January 28, 2012 in the Swiss resort of Davos. Getty




[Image]Attivist from Ukrainian feminist group ‘ Femen ‘ is arrested by Swiss police as they make a topless protest on January 28, 2012, against the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the center of the Swiss resort of Davos. The global elite has talked itself into an upbeat frame of mind as the Davos forum nears its climax on Saturday, but the Greek debt crisis still hangs heavily over proceedings. Getty




[Image]EDS NOTE : NUDITY – A member of the Ukrainian FEMEN women’s rights group is detained by policemen after a protest at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. In freezing temperatures three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained Saturday while climbing a security fence outside the economic forum to draw attention to the needs of the world’s poor. The protesters had their papers checked and will be released later from custody.





	


	



			
				


			

			
Uncensored Video – Femen of Ukraine
		
	
	

		


Our God is woman, our mission is protest, our weapons are bare breasts!

簡介

FEMEN (Ukrainian:Фемен) is a Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev, founded in 2008. The organisation became internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international ills. Some of the goals of the organisation are: “To develop leadership, intellectual and moral qualities of the young women in Ukraine” and “To build up the image of Ukraine, the country with great opportunities for women”. As of late April 2010 the organisation is contemplating becoming a political party to run for seats in the next Ukrainian parliamentary election.


History


The movement was founded in 2008 by Anna Hutsol (born 1983, most FEMEN members are younger) after she became attuned to the sad stories of Ukrainian woman duped by false promises from abroad: “I set up FEMEN because I realised that there was a lack of women activists in our society; Ukraine is male-oriented and women take a passive role.” Since then the organization has staged noticeable erotically-flavored rallies (among others) near the building of the Cabinet of Ministers, at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the Turkish embassy in Ukraine and in front of the Iranian embassy to oppose the expected execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.


The goals of the organization is “to shake women in Ukraine, making them socially active; to organize in 2017 a women’s revolution.”

FEMEN justifies its provocative methods stating “This is the only way to be heard in this country. If we staged simple protests with banners, then our claims would not have been noticed”. The organisation plans to become the biggest and the most influential feminist movement in Europe.

	


	



			
				


			
				


			

			
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[Image]Members of the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) chant slongans against French president during a protest outside the French consulate in Istanbul, on January 24, 2012. The French Senate on Monday approved, by 127 votes to 86, the measure which makes it an offence punishable by jail in France to deny that the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turk forces amounted to genocide. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose right-wing UMP party put forward the bill, now has sign it into law. Getty




[Image]Monica a German trucker gestures on the Turin highway during a truckers’ protest against the government’s deregulation plans in Turin January 23, 2012. Truckers blocked roads throughout Italy and taxi drivers resumed a strike on Monday as opposition mounted to fuel tax rises and economic reforms aimed at opening up competition in protected sectors including transport and pharmacies. Reuters




[Image]Pro-life activists protest at the March for Life rally on January 23, 2012 in Washington, DC. Pro-life activists gather each year to protest on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Getty




[Image]An ‘Occupy WEF’ protester cuts firewood during a protest against the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos on January 23, 2012. Some 1,600 economic and political leaders, including 40 heads of states and governments, will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as ‘outdated and crumbling as they converge at eastern Switzerland’s chic ski station of Davos for the 42nd edition of the five-day World Economic Forum (WEF) which opens on January 25, 2012. Getty




[Image]Members of a leftist Turkish party waves party flags and hold a banner reading ‘Armenian allegations are part of a new Treaty of Sevres (which would have divided Turkey) by the USA and EU’ as they protest outside the French embassy in Ankara on January 23, 2012. Turkey threatened France with new sanctions over a bill criminalising the denial of the Armenian genocide as the French Senate prepared to vote on the legislation. Getty




[Image]Cambodian victims hold a demonstration to mark the third anniversary of a forced eviction in the Dey Krahorm community, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Three years ago residents were forcibly evicted from their homes and told by local authorities that the land was owned by others. (Heng Sinith)




[Image]AIDS protestors are seen outside the FDA building on Monday Jan. 23, 2012, in Silver Spring, MD. (Larry French)




[Image]A Hungarian protestor covers her mouth with a mask during a protest in support of the largest opposition radio station ‘Klub Radio’ which recently lost its radio frequency in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Thousands gathered to protest against the government’s controversial media law and to help the ‘Klub Radio’. (Bela Szandelszky)




[Image]The Ladies in White, a group of family members of imprisoned dissidents, protest during their weekly march in Havana January 22, 2012. The opposition group “Ladies in White” accused the Cuban government on Sunday of “murdering” by neglect a 31-year-old dissident who died last week following a hunger strike in prison. Ladies in White leader Berta Soler said Wilman Villar Mendoza died because the government did not respect his rights and that he was only the latest such victim to die for the same reason. Reuters




[Image]Anti-government protesters shout as they carry portraits of several prisoners during a rally organized by the pro-democracy 20th February movement in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Jan. 22 2012. Like the rest of the region, Morocco was once shaken by pro-democracy protests but the king has succeeded in blunting them by holding early elections and amending the constitution and the numbers of protesters have dwindled.




[Image]Demonstrators, dressed as workers, holds a sign that reads in Spanish ‘I don’t want apartheids in Chile’ during a protest in support of maids and workers outside the gated community “El Algarrobal II” in Chicureo, Chile, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. According to community rules, workers are forbidden to walk along the residential development.




[Image]Topless activists of Ukraine’s protest group Femen punch reporters in front of the Bulgarian Parliament in Sofia, on Saturday, Jan 21, 2012. Ukrainian female rights activists FEMEN staged a protest in Sofia against the domestic violence on women and children and against human trafficking. (Valentina Petrova)




[Image]An anti-government protester holds a banner that reads ‘I love democracy’ while posing in front of a group of riot police in combat gear in Bucharest, Romania, early Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. Police on Sunday clashed with a small contingent of around 1,000 protesters in the capital, after demonstrations against austerity measures turned violent. (Vadim Ghirda)




[Image]Occupy protester Julie Searle chains herself to fellow protesters blocking a Bank of America branch entrance on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in San Francisco. Anti-Wall Street demonstrators across the U.S. planned rallies Friday in front of banks and courthouses. (Noah Berger)




[Image]Children chant slogans during an anti-Syrian regime demonstration at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border, on Friday Jan. 20, 2012. President Bashar Assad’s forces attacked Zabadani, some 17 miles (27 kilometers) west of the capital, for six days, sparking fierce fighting that involved heavy bombardments and clashes with army defectors.




[Image]Protesters hold signs that read in Spanish “English get out of Malvinas” outside the British embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday Jan. 20, 2012. A small crowd of demonstrators turned out Friday after British Prime Minister David Cameron accused Argentina of being “much more than colonialist” for asserting its claims to the islands.




[Image]A demonstrator chants as she holds up a poster with the image of Chile’s Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, during a protest against a proposed plan on new ways to crack down on unauthorized social protests, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday Jan. 19, 2012. “Hinzpeter Law,” had included enabling police to seize images from media without court orders but Hinzpeter is backing away from that idea.




[Image]Half naked and caged activists of the animal rights group ‘Igualdad Animal’ (Equality Animal) symbolically sit in cages to denounce the slaying of animals to make fur coats, in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (Manu Fernandez)




[Image]Bulgarian environmental activist wears a gas mask and carries Bulgarian national flag during a protest in Sofia, on Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012. Though the Bulgarian parliament banned on Wednesday shale oil and gas exploration through hydraulic fracturing or fracking hundreds activists gathered to protest against the environmental policy of the government. (Valentina Petrova)




[Image]Israeli Ethiopian girls have their faces painted as they take part in a demonstration against racism and discrimination in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Thousands of young Ethiopian immigrants and other supporters gathered on Wednesday outside the Israeli parliament, to protest what they say is racism directed at them. (Sebastian Scheiner)




[Image]An anti-government protester draped in a Bahraini flag argues with riot police who told her to go inside as police dispersed a banned demonstration Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, in Manama, Bahrain. Opposition groups, led by al-Wefaq society, had called for a march through central Manama, but turned the protest into a sit-in when police who turned out in large numbers blocked their way.




[Image]Workers demonstrate at the request of the CGT union (General Confederation of Work), in Marseille, southern France, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, against what they describe as anti social government measures. Labor unions insist workers shouldn’t have to pay the cost of the financial crisis at a time when many French companies are still making profits, and accuse unpopular conservative leader President Nicolas Sarkozy of putting together a slap-dash solution ahead of elections.




[Image]Occupy London protesters chant anti-corporate slogans as they gather on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral, in central London, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Britain’s High Court decided Wednesday, Occupy London protest camp an be evicted from outside St. Paul’s Cathedral. (Lefteris Pitarakis)




[Image]Occupy Congress protesters arrives for a day of demonstrations and activities on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (J. Scott Applewhite)




[Image]Protester, holds a black cross to symbolically mourn the death of PSI (Private Sector Involvement) and CDS (Credit Default Swaps) during a rally in central Athens, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. Strikes and demonstrations over austerity measures hit the Greek capital of Athens on Tuesday, as international debt inspectors returned to resume their scrutiny of the country’s reforms. (Dimitri Messinis)




[Image]International Indignados movement demonstrators chash with Italian police officers as they try to move out of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, in Rome, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2012. The Indignados staged a sit-in and tried to place tents and climb the Vatican Christmas tree as a protest. (Andrew Medichini)




[Image]Border guards, fire brigade officers and prison guards blow horns as they protest demanding monthly wage increases of 300 zlotys (US dollar 85, euro 66) , just like those recently given to the police and armed forces, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Similar protests took place simultaneously in Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan and Wroclaw, the four Polish towns that will host the Euro 2012 soccer championships games. (Alik Keplicz)




[Image]Indigenous women rest after protesting the Conga gold and silver mining project in Cajamarca, Peru, Tuesday Jan. 3, 2012. Demonstrators in Peru resumed their protests against plans to develop a $4.8 billion gold mine, saying they fear the mine will will taint their water and affect a major aquifer. The mine is majority owned by U.S.-based Newmont Mining Corp. (Karel Navarro)











 























	


	



			
				


			
				


			

			
FEMEN of Ukraine, the courageous sisters – Uncensored Movie leaked
		
	
	

		


Three Ukrainian FEMEN activists have allegedly been kidnapped by Belarusian KGB officers who threatened the protesters with knives, cut their hair and then left the women alone in the woods, says the movement’s webpage.


The activists disappeared on Monday in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, after protesting in front of the KGB building against the country’s long-ruling president, Aleksandr Lukashenko.


“From 6 pm Kiev time, the connection with the FEMEN activists has been lost, and one hour later all their mobile phones appeared to be switched off,” a statement on the movement’s webpage said.


Later one of the missing women, Irina Shevchenko, managed to get access to a phone. The activist told her colleagues she had been detained by the police and KGB officers at Minsk railway station, together with two other FEMEN protesters.


“We were blindfolded and put into a bus,” Shevchenko said. “Then they took us to the woods, poured oil over us, forced us to undress — threatening to set fire to us or stab us with knives. They later used those knives to cut our hair.”


Then the activists were left alone in the woods, with no clothes or documents. The girls made a long journey on foot before finding help in a small village which turned out to be deep in the Belarusian outback.


In their blog, the movement’s leaders called on locals to help the activists hide from the police until Ukrainian embassy staff managed to rescue them.


Earlier the movement announced that its camerawoman, Kitty Green, who has Australian citizenship, was detained together with two local journalists. The women were released from detention several hours later; Green was deported to Vilnius, Lithuania.


An official of Belarus State Border Committee, Aleksandr Tushchenko, told Interfax that the committee had no information on the arrest of the FEMEN activists.


The Belarusian Foreign Ministry also denied detaining the FEMEN protesters, nor have they confirmed that they are aware of the activists’ whereabouts.


During their anti-Lukashenko protest, the topless activists chanted, “Long live Belarus!” One of them was made up as President Lukashenko.


December 19 is the anniversary of an unauthorized opposition rally that took place in Minsk in 2010 following presidential elections which was brutally dispersed by police, with many protesters beaten up and arrested.


The FEMEN movement is not notorious for politically-motivated naked protests held at home in Ukraine and in countries throughout Europe, including Vatican City. One of their latest actions was held in the Russian capital, Moscow, in front of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

	


	



			
				


			

			
UNCENSORED – FEMEN against lawlessness in Ucraine
		
	
	

		








































 Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN set up two protests on different occasions that I thought I should put together photos from both protest in a post.First it was a protest in Kiev on June 23, 2010 against lawlessness in the country.  Ukrainian women activists shout and hold placards, reading: ‘Free of protests,’ ‘Free of words’ and ‘Hands off bitches,’ as they block the entrance to the building of Ukraine’s Secret Services.


Second protest which was topless protest occurred on July 2, 2010. Once again Ukrainian women activists shout and hold placard reading ‘Hillary, help us!’ during their so called top-less protest at the Hayat hotel, the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton’s residence in Kiev. They basically protested Mr Yanukovich’s government and accused him of keeping women out of power and of sexists statements.




It seems grass is greener in Ukraine, at least they have cute protests.

	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
Video – Topless in Vatican: FEMEN strips against ‘Catholic witch-hunt’
		
	
	

		


 


Three demonstrators from the Ukrainian women’s rights movement FEMEN staged a protest at the Vatican on Sunday, shortly after the Pope’s regular Sunday address. One of them sneaked into St. Peter’s square and took off her coat revealing a transparent blouse. The demonstrator held a sign saying ‘Freedom for Women’ and shouted “Libere siamo noi” (italian for “We are free”). She was stopped as she started pulling her clothes off by police and quickly led along with her two partners to a nearby police station where the protesters are being questioned.


FEMEN is Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev and was founded in 2008. The organisation became internationally known for organising topless protests against sex tourism, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international issues.

	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
Exposed and Uncensored – Nudity Protests
		
	
	

		








Nudity Protests








[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** Brazilian carnival queen Viviane Castro parades with an image depicting President Barack Obama painted on her left leg during carnival celebrations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009. Castro’s stomach reads in Portuguese “for sale,” a message she said represented the sale of Brazil’s Amazon to the U.S. (Folha Imagem, Lalo de Almeida)




[Image](EDITORS NOTE: Image contains nudity. The indignants have come from across the country to protest high levels of unemployment, the austerity measures and what they consider a stagnant and corrupt political system. Getty


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[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** A model walks her bicycle during a protest against worldwide pollution in Bogota, Wednesday, April 1, 2009. (Fernando Vergara)




[Image]EDS NOTE NUDITY – South Korean prostitutes in their underwear and covered in body and face paint, and some others wearing mourning clothes, rush to police line after a rally in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Hundreds of prostitutes and pimps rallied Tuesday near a red-light district in Seoul to protest a police crackdown on brothels, with some unsuccessfully attempting to set themselves on fire. AP




[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** A woman holds up her bike during the World Naked Bike Ride in Sao Paulo, Saturday, June 14, 2008. Although total nudity is prohibited in public areas in Brazil, the woman was not detained. Of about 200 bikers, police detained only one man after he denied to wear his clothes. (Andre Penner)




[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** A policemen kicks a man during the World Naked Bike Ride in Sao Paulo, Saturday, June 14, 2008.(Andre Penner)




[Image](EDITORS NOTE: THIS IMAGE CONTAINS PARTIAL NUDITY) Protesters perfom during demonstrations against the influence of bankers and financiers in front of the Reichstagsgebaeude on October 15, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Thousands of people took to the streets today in cities across Germany in demonstrations inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests in the United States. Activists are demanding an end to the free-wheeling ways of global financial players whom they see as responsible for the current European and American economic woes.


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[Image]AUGUST 13: (EDITORS NOTE: Image contains nudity. Several thousand men and women turned out to protest against rape and a woman’s right to her body.




[Image]EDS NOTE NUDITY Semi naked activists from the Ukrainian female rights group Femen protest in front of the Saudi Arabian embassy against a ban on driving cars for women in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, June 16, 2011. (Sergei Chuzavkov)




[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** A nude demonstrator gestures towards the police in Malmo, Sweden, Friday Sept. 19, 2008. A street occupation by activists on the fringes of the European Social Forum turned into stone throwing and fighting. (Drago Prvulovic)




[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** A protester performs during a march to mark the 1968 Tlatelolco plaza “massacre”‘ in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Hundreds of student demonstrators were killed by men with guns and soldiers on October 2, 1968, ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics celebrations in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)




[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** Employees of LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics lead a protest outside of the LUSH Walnut Street shop, wearing nothing but aprons to urge shoppers to buy products that are free of packaging, in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. (Justin Maxon)




[Image]** EDS NOTE: NUDITY ** Animal rights activist wearing banderillas, barbed darts which are stabbed into the bull’s neck during bullfights, are seen during a protest prior to start the nine day San Fermin Festival on Sunday in Pamplona northern Spain, Saturday, July 5, 2008. (Alvaro Barrientos)




[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** A policeman sprays pepper gas as he detains a man during the World Naked Bike Ride in Sao Paulo, Saturday, June 14, 2008.(Andre Penner)




[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** Two models wearing gas masks ride bicycles during a protest against worldwide pollution as a man takes their picture in Bogota, Wednesday, April 1, 2009. (Fernando Vergara)




[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** Five models wearing gas masks pose for a photo as they protest worldwide pollution in Bogota, Wednesday, April 1, 2009. (Fernando Vergara)




[Image]**EDS NOTE NUDITY** A group of women with their bodies painted march during the International Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Bogota, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. (Fernando Vergara)




[Image]**EDS NOTE NUDITY** Women with painted bodies perform during a march against violence against women in San Salvador, Wednesday , Nov. 25 , 2009. Hundreds of people marched Wednesday in honor of International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women. (Luis Romero)




[Image]EDS NOTE NUDITY – Women protest against the high cost of living during a rally marking May Day in the streets of San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday May 1, 2011. Activists filled the streets marking International Workers’ Day with skits and marchers that brought attention to the rising cost of living and growing disparities between the rich and poor. AP




[Image]EDS NOTE NUDITY – Students, one with her body painted, march to protest a government law project to increase private investments in public universities in Medellin, Colombia, Thursday, April 7, 2011.






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[Image]** EDS NOTE NUDITY ** Dancers perform on a Vila Isabel samba school float at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. (Natacha Pisarenko)




[Image]**EDS NOTE NUDITY** A dancer performs during the parade of the Gavioes da Fiel samba school in Sao Paulo, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009. (Andre Penner)





	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
Uncensored –   FEMEN Solidarity message to FEMEN Holland
		
	

	

		


 


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A video created by FEMEN entitled, FEMEN Solidarity Message to FEMEN Holland, caused quite a stare when it was placed on YouTube and then linked to various individual’s Facebook pages.


To some it came as a shock that people would be so upset to see this video because of the message and the aim, to send a message of solidarity to sisters in protest against overconsumption and corporate greed.  It was as if people forgot that there is such a thing as nonsexual nudity.  After all, one can walk into any art museum to find examples. However, this video was flagged on YouTube as obscene.  Since YouTube recognizes non-sexual nudity, the video was not taken down, simply marked as “age-restricted.”


The fact that viewers could be so disgusted and disturbed at the site of women’s breast that they would have to declare “The sky is falling!” is a testament to how little this society has progressed. Some commenter’s on Facebook even went so far as to say that what they women were doing was not a valid form of protest.  Surprising so, many of these commentators were also people who themselves were Occupiers or those who supported the Occupy movement.  The irony being that there are some people who might think Occupiers sleeping outside for days “like animals, without taking baths,” is barbaric behavior; as such comments have been heard on conservative talk radio and read on conservative blogs.  For example: M. James Currier wrote an open letter entitled, “Letter: Occupiers need a bath”, where he said, “The occupiers’ barbaric behavior has changed the national political conversation from “the Democrats have no tea party” to “look at those lazy Democrat occupiers.” Despite these attitudes, many continue to sleep outside, without access to showers, because they believe in their cause. These women are no different. They are utilizing a form of protest that is common in their country because they too believe in their cause.


FEMEN (Фемен) is a Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev, founded in 2008. The organization became internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international ills. (FEMEN Holland was founded on 12.02.2011.)


The video message is as follows: 


We want to express our solidarity with our sisters in Holland. We know this Millionaire Fair is full of unnecessary luxury. Toys for the boys. And women for decoration. The empty-headed spenders, who rather buy a new car, or a new fashion bag every day than spending some time of the day on a deeper thought. Even for once) 


this international fair is a slap in the face of all ordinary people who suffer from the financial crisis. Millions of people are at the risk of losing everything in Europe, but here the filthy rich keep on partying. If nothing else outside their glamorous world exists.


But they are the ones who caused the international crisis in the first place. They are part of the international network of high finance. Bankers and investors. Speculators. Corrupt politicians, ‘Businessmen’. Mafia. They all work together in an world-wide, oppressive, financial system. And instead on investing their money in the future of the planet, they prefer to waste it here on useless extravaganza.


They are driven by greed. Destroyers of ordinary peoples live. Gambling with their money. Make them responsible for the debts when it goes wrong. Annexing their houses. Their land. Taking away their jobs. Stealing their future. Making them poor, so they can sit on golden toilets in diamond closets. And shit on the world.


We must stop this world-wide cult of ignorant selfishness. Of intellectual emptiness. Of material waste. Of cultural barbarism. Or it will become the end of civilization as we know it.


 


FUCK YOU OLIGARCHS! 

	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
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[Image]Egyptian army soldiers rear arrest a woman protester wearing the Niqab during clashes near Cairo’s downtown Tahrir Square, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. Activists say the clashes began after soldiers severely beat a young man who was part of a sit-in outside the Cabinet building. (Ahmed Ali)




[Image]Egyptian army soldiers beat a protester wearing a Niqab, an Islamic veil, during clashes near Cairo’s downtown Tahrir Square, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. Activists say the clashes began after soldiers severely beat a young man who was part of a sit-in outside the Cabinet building. At background graffiti depicts members of the military ruling council and Arabic reads: “Killer”. (Ahmed Ali)




[Image]Egyptian protesters threw rocks at military police during clashes near Cairo’s downtown Tahrir Square, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. Activists say the clashes began after soldiers severely beat a young man who was part of a sit-in outside the Cabinet building. (Ahmed Ali)


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[Image]Egyptian army soldiers arrest a woman protester during clashes with military police near Cairo’s downtown Tahrir Square, Egypt Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. Activists say the clashes began after soldiers severely beat a young man who was part of a sit-in outside the Cabinet building.




[Image]Egyptian army soldiers arrest a woman protester during clashes with military police near Cairo’s downtown Tahrir Square, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. Activists say the clashes began after soldiers severely beat a young man who was part of a sit-in outside the Cabinet building.




[Image]Egyptian soldiers arrested a female protester during the second day of clashes in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Saturday.  Reuters




[Image]A woman is taken away by the Egyptian army during clashes in central Cairo on Dec. 16, 2011. (Khaled Elfiqi)




[Image]Egyptian anti-army protesters throw stones at pro-army protesters (not pictured) during clashes, in central Cairo, Egypt, 16 december 2011. EPA




[Image]Egyptian soldiers clash with protesters near Cairo’s Tahrir Square on December 16, 2011 after demonstrators threw petrol bombs and set fire to furniture in front of the nearby parliament. AFP


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[Image]Anti-government protesters react to tear gas fired by riot police during clashes Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Abu Saiba village west of the capital of Manama, Bahrain. It was the third straight day of clashes along a main highway where protesters have been trying to stage sit-ins against the government. (Hasan Jamali)




[Image]Protestors supporting Pfc. Bradley Manning gather outside Ft. Meade, Md., Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, where military prosecutors are presenting their case against him as the source for the WikiLeaks website’s collection of U.S. military and diplomatic secrets. Manning, 24-year-old today, is blamed for the largest leak of classified material in American history. The purpose of the hearing is to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring Manning to trial. (Jose Luis Magana)




[Image]Activist of women’s movement FEMEN stand atop a fence during their protest in front of the cabinet of the Ministers building in Kiev on December 16, 2011. The young Ukrainian women climbed up a fence in front of the Cabinet of Ministers building and protested against the lack of women in the Prime Minister Mykola Azarov’s government. Getty


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[Image]Anti-government protesters gesture toward riot police (unseen) Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, along a northern highway by the entry to the Shiite village of Saar, Bahrain, site of an opposition sit-in that was dispersed by police with tear gas and sound bombs. (Hasan Jamali)




[Image]Protestors hold on to a rope, forming a human chain, while marching to the finance ministry Thursday, Dec. 15 2011, in Lisbon. Civil servants’ unions organized the demonstration to protest the government’s austerity measures. Portugal needed a euro78 billion ($103 billion) bailout earlier this year as its high debt load pushed it close to bankruptcy and the government is enacting an austerity program of pay cuts and tax hikes. Banners read “Don’t rob the future”. (Armando Franca)




[Image]In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, villagers chant slogans as they gather for a protest in Wukan village of Lufeng, China’s Guangdong province. China’s government is trying to defuse a revolt in the small fishing village, offering to investigate the land seizures that touched off the rebellion and vowing to punish leaders of the uprising. The village of Wukan has for months been the site of simmering protests by locals who say officials sold farmland to developers without their consent.




[Image]Thousands of Lebanese private and public school teachers hold protest in front of the government building in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, to demand higher wages. The protest comes a week after the government approved a salary raise that many employees considered too low . (Bilal Hussein)




[Image]Indian farmers stage a sit in protest as they demand adequate compensation for their farm land acquired for different government projects in Lucknow, India, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. India’s transformation from a largely agrarian nation into a global economic power hinges on a steady supply of land for new factories, call centers, power plants and homes. As cities spill over their seams with ever more people, the government is increasingly seizing the farms around them for private development.




[Image]Dozens of peasants and activists protest demanding the government to recognize them as victims of the country’s internal conflict, outside the Congress in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. (William Fernando Martinez)




[Image]Protesters with Occupy Seattle march to the Pat the Port of Seattle, Monday afternoon, Dec. 12, 2011 as part of a national effort to disrupt West Coast port traffic. Organizers called for the protests, hoping the day of demonstrations would cut into the profits of the corporations that run the docks and send a message that their movement was not over. (Mark Harrison)





	


	



			
				


			
				


			

			
UNCENSORED News from FEMEN
		
	
	

		
Желание украинцев узнать источники их финансирования. Система оптимизации поиска Google.ua на запрос “кто финансирует” выделяет топ-тройку деятелей, чьи источники финансирования хотели бы знать украинцы. Топ-3 запроса “кто финансирует» выглядит следующим образом: первое место – FEMEN, второе – Гитлер, третье – Яценюк. Абсолютно не понятно, как малобюджетная женская организация затесалась в компанию таких финансовых монстров, как национал-социалистическая рабочая партия фюрера и Фронт Змiн Яценюка). Парадоксально, но людей больше интересует, где FEMEN  берет деньги на краски и ватманы, чем источники финансирования солдат Вермахта и школьников Яценюка.

А вот москалей интересуют масоны проплачивающие футбол и развал России.








 



	


	



			
				


			

			
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[Image]Russian nationalists rally at Bolotnaya Square, on an island in the Moscow River adjacent to the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011.Russian nationalists are rallying in downtown Moscow, demanding a bigger say for ethnic Russians in the country’s politics and marking the first anniversary of a violent nationalist riot just outside the Kremlin.(Alexander Zemlianichenko)




[Image]Russian nationalists shout holding old Russian imperial flags during their rally in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011. Russian nationalists are rallying in Moscow and St.Petersburg, demanding a bigger say for ethnic Russians in the country’s politics and marking the first anniversary of a violent nationalist riot just outside the Kremlin.(Dmitry Lovetsky)




[Image]A woman wearing fake horns holds a banner during a demonstration against bullfighting in Mexico City December 10, 2011. More than hundred demonstrators took part in a protest against bullfighting in the country. Bullfighting has been one of the most popular sport in Mexico for the last 400 years, according to local media. The banner reads “Torture”. Reuters




[Image]French Occupy protesters participate in a rally as part of the 63rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights, on December 10, 2011 in center Paris. The activists, angered by state spending cuts that hurt ordinary people and high unemployment have called for a nationwide protest. Placard reads : ‘Time for Outrage. Getty




[Image]Women dressed in violet clothes march from El Zocalo Square to the Revolution monument along Juarez Avenue on December 10, 2011 in Mexico City to protest against violence The activity called ‘The Rally of the One Thousand Women’ promotes to put an end to the discrimination and violence against women. Getty




[Image]Member of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) hold portraits of missing relatives during a demonstration to mark International Human Rights Day in Srinagar on December 10, 2011. Demonstrations were held in Srinagar to protest against alleged human rights violations by Indian security forces on Kashmiris. Rights groups say as many as 8,000 people, mostly young men, have ‘disappeared’ by security forces in India-administered Kashmir since an armed insurgency erupted in the Muslim-majority region. Getty




[Image]In this photo taken with a fisheye lens protesters gather during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. The sign reads “No vote”. More than ten thousands people have protested in St.Petersburg against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged. (Dmitry Lovetsky)




[Image]An elderly demonstrator holds a poster showing an edited photo of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and signed “2050. No” during a mass rally to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia’s parliamentary elections in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011.




[Image]Demonstrators shout during a mass rally to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia’s parliamentary elections in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. Russians angered by allegedly fraudulent parliamentary elections are protesting Saturday in cities from the freezing Pacific Coast to the southwest of Russia, eight time zones away, a striking show of indignation, challenging Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s hold on power. (Mikhail Metzel)




[Image]Demonstrators shout during a mass rally to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia’s parliamentary elections in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. Russians angered by allegedly fraudulent parliamentary elections are protesting Saturday in cities from the freezing Pacific Coast to the southwest of Russia, eight time zones away, a striking show of indignation, challenging Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s hold on power. (Mikhail Metzel)




[Image]Protesters light flares during a mass rally to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia’s parliamentary elections in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011.Russians angered by allegedly fraudulent parliamentary elections are protesting Saturday in cities from the freezing Pacific Coast to the southwest of Russia, eight time zones away, a striking show of indignation, challenging Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s hold on power. (Pavel Golovkin)


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[Image]A supporter of Ivory Coast Prime Minister and leader of news forces the former rebel groupe looks on during a legislative election meeting in Ferkessedougou, north of Ivory Coast, on December 9, 2011. The December 11 polls are boycotted by former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo’s Ivorian Popular Front party (FPI) and its allies in protest against his arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Nearly 1,000 candidates are in the fray for the 255 parliamentary seats. Getty




[Image]People protest in the halls of the venue of UN Climate Talks on December 9, 2011, to demand that nations not sign a “death sentence” during the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban. Standing side-by-side with delegates from some of the world’s most vulnerable countries, civil society representatives sang traditional South African freedom songs and chanted slogans like, “Listen to the People, Not the Polluters. In the last 48 hours, over 700,000 people have signed petitions calling on major emitters to stand with the nations of Africa and resist any attempts to delay climate action until 2020. UN climate talks entered their second week entangled in a thick mesh of issues with no guarantee that negotiators and their ministers will be able to sort them out. The 194-nation process is facing, for the second time in two years, the prospect of a bustup, even as scientists warn against the mounting threat of disaster-provoking storms, droughts, flood and rising seas made worse by global warming. Getty




[Image]Journalists demonstrate during a protest against the murders of their counterparts outside the Presidential house in Tegucigalpa December 9, 2011. 17 journalists have been shot dead in Honduras since 2010, making the small Central American nation one of the world’s most dangerous places for reporters, according human rights groups. Reuters




[Image]Bahraini women watch as hundreds of anti-government protesters (unseen) run Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, through the Musalla area of Manama, Bahrain, toward an area that had been the hub of Bahrain’s spring uprising and is now a heavily militarized zone that protesters seek to reclaim. The protesters were forced back by riot police just short of the area. Writing on the wall reads “freedom” above pictures of political prisoners. (Hasan Jamali)




[Image]Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov’s wife Anastasia, left, speaks to the media as environmental activist and leader of the Khimki forest defenders Yevgenia Chirikova looks at her during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday Dec. 9, 2011. Energized activists and anxious authorities are bracing for anti-government protests planned across Russia’s sprawling expanse Saturday that promise to be the largest demonstration of public outrage since the dying days of the Soviet Union.




[Image]Occupy Boston Protestors reacted to the announcement that their downtown encampment would not be evicted on December 9, 2011, in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment in Dudley Square, or face eviction. In response, many of the protestors chose to take down their tents, and by the midnight deadline much of the camp was gone. At approximately 1:15AM on December 9, 2011, the Boston police announced that they would not evict the protestors from Dudley Square. Protestors took to the street in celebration, and further protest. Getty




[Image]Worker Pat Revell pickets outside Unilever’s Port Sunlight factory on the Wirral, Merseyside on December 9, 2011 in Port Sunlight, England. The workers are on strike in protest against the company’s plan to axe their final salary pension scheme. The strike is the first in the history of the consumer goods manufacturer who lists PG Tips tea and Persil washing detergent amongst its products. Getty




[Image]Supporters of the Serbian Radical Party stand in front of policemen while holding posters with a picture of party leader Vojislav Seselj during a protest against Serbia’s efforts to become an official candidate for the European Union membership in front of Serbia’s Presidency building in Belgrade December 9, 2011. The posters read, “We don’t want in the European Union” (L), and “Tadic don’t humiliate Serbs”. Reuters




[Image]People sit as others lay on the ground as they watch a movie in the main entrance of Germans Trias i Pujol hospital during a protest against spending cuts in Catalonia’s public healthcare system, in Badalona, near Barcelona city, Spain, Friday Dec. 9, 2011. The leaders of the 17 countries that use the euro, plus six others, have tentatively agreed to a new treaty that enforces stricter budget rules seen as crucial to solving Europe’s debt crisis and holding the currency-bloc together. An agreement on fiscal discipline is considered a critical first step before the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and others would commit more financial aid to help countries like Italy and Spain, which have large debts and unsustainable borrowing costs. AP




[Image]Members of the Red Shirt movement joke with a Thai police officer as they gather to protest against former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva outside Metropolitan Police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. Abhisit was called in to give information to a police investigation team on the government’s crackdown on red-shirt demonstrators last year during which 91 people were killed. (Apichart Weerawong)




[Image]Panamanian people protest against the return of former General Manuel Noriega to Panama, in Panama City on December 09,2011. Noriega returns to Panama without the trappings of political or military clout, but with something of incalculable value — detailed knowledge of the skeletons that lurk in the Central American nation’s closet. Getty




[Image]Thousands of people gather outside the main courthouse during the first trial of 22 leftist students who were jailed after they staged a demonstration to protest a police crackdown on anti-government demonstrators in the northern town of Hopa, Black Sea, ahead of general elections in June, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. (Burhan Ozbilici)




[Image]Activists of the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN stage a performance in front of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, on December 9, 2011, to protest against alleging mass fraud in the Russian December 4 parliamentary polls and demanding Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that he stop his political activities. Putin, who became premier in 2008 after serving two Kremlin terms, filed this week his application to stand in the March elections. Getty




[Image]Activists of Ukraine’s protest group Femen, protest outside the Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. The post-election protests in Moscow drew thousands and continued for several days in the biggest ever challenge to Putin, reflecting a growing public frustration with his rule that may complicate his bid to reclaim the presidency in next March’s vote. (Ivan Sekretarev)


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[Image]Medical workers rally at the Latvian Saeima (Parliament) building to protest budget cuts in health care on December 8, 2011 in Riga. The protesters are holding black balloons and various placards, urging the government to care for medical workers and warning that many health care workers may leave Latvia. Placards read: ‘Left country. Everyone has rights to receive health care’. Getty




[Image]Demonstrators protest about high inflation and low interest rates outside the Bank of England in the City of London December 8, 2011. The Bank of England voted on Thursday to stick to its four-month programme to pump an extra 75 billion pounds of quantitative easing into the rapidly slowing economy. Reuters




[Image]Pakistani protesters carry national flags as they march during a demonstration in Islamabad on December 8, 2011 against the cross-border NATO air strike on Pakistani troops. Several hundred journalists, labour leaders and traders on December 8, took to streets to condemn a recent air strike by NATO on Pakistani military checkposts that killed 24 soldiers. Pakistan shut the only supply route in Khyber tribal region for international troops in Afghanistan, boycotted the Bonn conference and announced to revisit policy towards the US in protest against the attack. Getty




[Image]Fundamentalist Christians protest on December 8, 2011 in Paris, near the Rond-Point theatre where Argentina-born author Rodrigo Garcia’s play ‘Golgota Picnic’ is performed which they judge ‘blasphemous’. Getty




[Image]People pose with a protester wearing a mock mask depicting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. More than five hundred people protested in St.Petersburg against Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged. (Dmitry Lovetsky)




[Image]Occupy Boston protester Heather McCann, of Watertown, Mass., center, loads a crate of books into a truck at the Dewey Square encampment while dismantling the camps library, in Boston, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said Thursday that Occupy Boston protesters must leave their encampment in the city’s financial district by midnight Thursday or face eviction by police. (Steven Senne)




[Image]A veiled Kashmiri government employee participates in a protest against the government in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. Dozens of government employees demanded release of arrears and regularization of jobs for daily wage workers. (Dar Yasin)




[Image]Protesters march to join fellow protesters who camped out outside a Catholic church near the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines Thursday Dec. 8, 2011 to await news of the scheduled execution of a Filipino man convicted in China for drug trafficking. Philippine officials said, the Filipino man, who was convicted on drug trafficking, was executed in China on Thursday despite an appeal for clemency from President Benigno Aquino III on humanitarian grounds. (Bullit Marquez)




[Image]Kashmiri government employees participate in a protest against the government in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. Dozens of government employees demanded release of arrears and regularization of jobs for daily wage workers. (Dar Yasin)




[Image]A small group of demonstrators screams slogans demanding UN protection for Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, as they protest outside the Dutch Foreign Ministry during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visit in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday Dec. 8, 2011. (Peter Dejong)




[Image]Police officers detain an opposition activist during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. More than five hundreds people have protested in St.Petersburg against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged. (Dmitry Lovetsky)




[Image]French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives at their demonstration in Paris Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. The demonstration was to oppose a bill on which the Senate were voting Thursday afternoon, a private members bill calling for the right for foreigners to be able to vote in French municipal elections. (Jacques Brinon)




[Image]People living near nuclear plant sites shout slogans during an anti-nuclear protest in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. The protesters demanded scrapping of projects that endanger people’s safety and threaten livelihoods, according to a press release. Placard reads “Stop displacement of people in the name of development.” (Manish Swarup)




[Image]An Israeli musician covers her face in protest, as she performs during a rally against gender segregation, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Hundreds of women and women’s rights activists gathered in central Jerusalem Wednesday night for a rally organized by the New Israel Fund, themed “women will be seen and heard”, to protest discrimination against women in Israel. (Sebastian Scheiner)




[Image]Nepalese Buddhist monks and nuns take out a protest in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Hundreds of Buddhists demonstrated in Nepal’s capital to protest the appointment of Maoist party chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal to head a project to develop the area where Buddha was believed born in southern Nepal. The protestors demanded that there should not be any political involvement in the project to develop Lumbini, located 150 miles (240 kilometers) southwest of Katmandu. AP




[Image]A Libyan girl holds a placard that reads in Arabic ‘Thank you our brave rebels, but now let us live in peace’ during a protest in Tripoli’s landmark Martyrs Square on December 7, 2011 against former rebels who toppled Moamer Kadhafi but are still camping out in the capital and still have their weapons. Getty




[Image]Members of the Canadian Youth Delegation stage a protest as Canada’s Minister of Environment Peter Kent addresses the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) in Durban in this handout picture released by the Canada Youth Delegation, December 7, 2011. Reuters




[Image]Two protesters look at each other as they await processing after being arrested by Washington DC Metropolitan Police during an Occupy DC protest in Washington, December 7, 2011. Police arrested economic protesters in Washington on Wednesday as they blocked streets and disrupted traffic in an area famous as a center for the offices of lobbyists. Reuters




[Image]An Occupy DC demonstrator sits on a chair as demonstrators blocked an intersection on K St., in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (Evan Vucci)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street activists carry house warming gifts to a house warming party during a tour of foreclosed homes in the East New York neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Finding it increasingly difficult to camp in public spaces, Occupy protesters across the country are reclaiming foreclosed homes and boarded-up properties, signaling a tactical shift for the movement against wealth inequality.




[Image]A Colombian woman living in Panama holds a Colombian national flag during a protest march against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in Panama City December 6, 2011. Outraged by the killing of four captives by FARC rebels, Colombians protested on Tuesday to demand an end to half a century of guerrilla violence and kidnapping. The words on the flag read: “Release them”. Reuters




[Image]Colombian demonstrators take part in a protest march against Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC rebels in Cali December 6, 2011. Outraged by the execution of four captives by FARC rebels, tens of thousands of Colombians protested across the nation on Tuesday to demand an end to half a century of guerrilla violence and kidnapping. Reuters




[Image]In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo, occupy Oakland protesters march through the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. Protesters want to shut down ports up and down the U.S. West Coast on Monday, Dec.12,2011, to gum up the engines of global commerce. But organizers who are partly billing this effort as a show of solidarity with longshoremen have not won the support of the powerful union representing thousands of dock workers. (Noah Berger)


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[Image]An activist of a local women’s rights watchdog FEMEN, with writing “I am independent” and Ukraine’s’ national flag on her belly, seen during celebrities on the occasion of Ukraine’s 19th Independence in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (Efrem Lukatsky)
































	


	



			
				


			

			
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[Image]Kashmir Sutherland huddles with other protesters for warmth in Shemanski Park after police told them to take down tents or be kicked out Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, in Portland, Ore. The Oregonian reports the demonstrators agreed to take down a tent to stay in the park Sunday night. On Saturday night police arrested 19 demonstrators setting up structures in the South Park blocks. Police evicted demonstrators on Nov. 13 from two downtown parks.




[Image]A woman shouts slogans during a rally in Moscow, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Several thousand people have protested in Moscow against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged. A group of several hundred then marched toward the Central Elections Commission near the Kremlin, but were stopped by riot police and taken away in buses. (Sergey Ponomarev)




[Image]A blind woman rests in front of a police line during a protest by Greek blind people outside Parliament in Athens, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Dozens of people took part in the demonstration, to protest against government welfare spending cuts. Greece is in the throes of an acute financial crisis and has implemented a harsh austerity programme in exchange for international rescue loans. (Petros Giannakouris)




[Image]Occupy DC protesters stand inside a structure set up overnight in McPherson Square, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011 in Washington. Protesters are refusing to dismantle the unfinished wooden structure erected in the park. (Manuel Balce Ceneta)




[Image]In this Nov. 17, 2011 file photo, students clash with police during a demonstration in Milan, Italy, as university students protest against budget cuts and a lack of jobs, hours before new Italian Premier Mario Monti reveals his anti-crisis strategy in Parliament. Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis, which has dragged on for more than two years, is entering a pivotal week, as leaders across the continent converge to prevent a collapse of the euro and a financial panic from spreading.




[Image]A female activist carries a sign promoting gender equality as protesters march through downtown Rabat calling for greater democracy. Moroccan pro-democracy activists called for a day of rage on Dec. 4, 2011, a week after legislative elections but few turned out. (Paul Schemm)




[Image]Animal rights activists of the AnimaNaturalis international organization stage a naked protest in the middle of the Plaza de Espana square in the centre of Madrid on December 4, 2011, to denounce the slaying of animals to make fur coats. The men and women, covered in red paint that resembled blood, lay down and curled up against each other under a sunny sky in the busy square which is home to several cinemas, cafes and restaurants. Placard reads ‘How many lives for a coat?’. Getty




[Image]Participants attend the Slutwalk Singapore event held at the Speakers’ Corner on December 4, 2011. Supporters of the global SlutWalk movement against sexual violence held a rally in Singapore, attracting dozens to a rare protest in the strictly policed city-state. Getty




[Image]Russian police officers detain opposition demonstrators during an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. The rally was staged by a few dozen activists of the Left Front opposition group to protest against Sunday’s elections. (Misha Japaridze)


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[Image]Police officers try to arrest activists of the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN as they protest on December 3, 2011 against a meeting of opposition parties in Kiev. FEMEN activists protested against the event, saying that peeple came to the meeting because its organizers promised them money.




[Image]Body-painted environmental activists demonstrate outside the United Nations Climate Change conference (COP17) in Durban December 3, 2011. The protest march was part of a Global Day of Action to demand a fair climate change deal. Reuters




[Image]An opponent of reelected Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega holds a banner reading ‘Fraud=Poverty’, as she takes part in a protest called ”march against fraud” in Managua on December 3, 2011. About five thousand people marched in Nicaragua denouncing electoral fraud in past November 6 elections in Nicaragua and demanding a new election with foreign observers. Getty




[Image]Occupy LA protesters march from Pershing Square to the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail where protesters, who were arrested on Wednesday, were being held, in Los Angeles, on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (David Zentz)




[Image]Andean people protest against Newmont Mining’s Conga gold project during a march near the Cortada lagoon at Peru’s region of Cajamarca, November 24, 2011. Peru’s prime minister on December 2, 2011, said Newmont Mining must set aside money to finance social projects and any environmental damage as a precondition for moving forward on a stalled $4.8 billion gold mine project. Opponents of Newmont Mining’s $4.8 billion Conga project refused to end their rallies on November 30, 2011, saying Peru must permanently cancel the proposed mine after temporarily halting work on it to avert violence. Protesters and farmers say the mine would cause pollution and hurt water supplies by replacing a string of alpine lakes with artificial reservoirs. Picture taken November 24, 2011.




[Image]A woman protester join others as they shout slogans during the observance of World Climate Day Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011 near the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines. The protest coincided with the annual climate talks of the Conference of Parties (COP17) in Durban, South Africa. (Pat Roque)




[Image]A woman holds aplacard during a protest march against the war in Afghanistan on December 3, 2011 in the western German city of Bonn where a major international conference on December 5 will discuss the country’s future beyond 2014, when NATO-led international combat troops will leave. Getty




[Image]A survivor of the Bhopal gas tragedy lies on a railway track as others sit around to stop train movement during a protest in Bhopal, India, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Thousands of survivors of the world’s worst industrial accident blocked trains through a central Indian city on Saturday to demand more compensation.




[Image]Female Iranian demonstrators hold posters showing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left in the posters, and late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, during a demonstration to welcome Iranian diplomats expelled from London in retaliation for attacks on British compounds in Tehran, at the Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran, early Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011.









[Image]Students are arrested during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education system in Santiago, December 2, 2011. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system. Reuters




[Image]Demonstrators walk on a protest march in central London November 30, 2011. Teachers, nurses and border guards walked out on Wednesday as up to two million state workers staged Britain’s first mass strike for more than 30 years in a growing confrontation with a deficit-cutting coalition government. Reuters















[Image]Thousands of Bulgarians gather in front of the Bulgarian parliament to protest against government austerity measures in Sofia, Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011. Thousands joined a mass rally on Wednesday to protest government-proposed austerity measures that include raising the retirement age by one year. (Valentina Petrova)


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[Image]Activists of Ukrainian women movement FEMEN hold placards reading ‘EURO-2012 without prostitution’, ‘UEFA attacked our gates’ and others during a protest in front of the Olimpisky Stadium in Kie, a few hours prior the UEFA EURO-2012 Final Draw ceremony on December 2, 2011. Getty




[Image]Hundreds of workers on strike block the entrance gate of Hi-P International factory during a protest in a suburban area of Shanghai December 2, 2011. More than 200 workers at a Singapore-owned electronics plant in the commercial hub of Shanghai went on strike for a third day on Friday to protest against planned layoffs, the latest sign of labour unrest in the world’s second-largest economy. Reuters




[Image]A police officer detains a topless woman protesting against alleged attempts to legalize prostitution during the Euro 2012 in Ukraine prior to the final draw for the Euro 2012 soccer tournament in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Ukrainian women’s rights activists staged a topless demonstration at Kiev’s Olympic Stadium to protest what they say are attempts to legalize prostitution during the 2012 European Championship. (Ferdinand Ostrop)




[Image]Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s worst industrial disaster in India, along with other supporters shout slogans during a protest against a sponsorship deal with Dow Chemicals for the 2012 Olympics, in Bhopal, India, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Friday’s protests come on the eve of the 27th anniversary of a lethal gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal where an estimated 15,000 people died and tens of thousands were maimed in 1984.




[Image]Iranian dissidents hold banners as they protest in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. The protesters called for prevention of compulsory displacement of the Camp Ashraf residents inside Iraq and the annulment of the deadline for closure of Camp Ashraf by the end of December. Camp Ashraf, an enclave in eastern Iraq that houses more than 3,000 people, many of whom are dedicated to overthrowing the government of Iran.




[Image]Afghan girls hold placards during a demonstration in Kabul December 1, 2011. Hundreds of Afghans from the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan took to the streets of Kabul on Thursday to protest against plans for a long-term partnership deal with the United States. Reuters




[Image]A woman disguised as muppet character Miss Piggy takes a mud bath in front of the House of Representatives in The Hague on December 1, 2011 during a protest with Dutch environmental organization Milieudefensie against the expansion of livestock farming. Getty




[Image]A protester is detained by police during a march demanding education reform in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Chilean students clashed with police on Thursday during a protest demanding more funding for public education, while students in Colombia and Argentina also took to the streets in simultaneous demonstrations.(Luis Hidalgo)




[Image]Protesters shout anti-austerity slogans during a 24-hour general strike in Athens on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Thousands of protesters bitterly opposed to government austerity measures marched through the Greek capital Thursday, as another general strike closed schools and public services, left hospitals functioning on reduced staff and confined ferries to port. (Petros Giannakouris)




[Image]An Occupy Raleigh protester shouts during a speech by John Stumpf, the CEO and president of Wells Fargo, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, in Raleigh, N.C. Stumpf was about 30 minutes into his speech when protesters interrupted him as he talked about the importance of small business. (Chuck Liddy)




[Image]A protester from Portland, Maine, warms her hand with her breath while eating a sandwich at the Occupy Boston encampment, in Boston on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. In the past few weeks police broke up encampments in Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif., and New York, where the sit-down protests against social inequality and corporate excesses began in mid-September. Protesters remain in place in Boston and Washington, which each had camps of about 100 tents Wednesday. (Steven Senne)




[Image]A woman is led away in handcuffs by police after being removed from Panton House in central London November 30, 2011. Demonstrators broke into an office building used by mining company Xstrata in central London on Wednesday and hung protest banners on the roof before police regained control of the building. A group of about 60 from the “Occupy” movement entered the offices in Haymarket in protest at the pay of the company’s chief executive, Occupy said in a statement. Reuters




[Image]A female protestor displays her hands with Yemen’s flag and writing Arabic that reads,”you will prosecuted,” during a demonstration demanding the prosecution of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis are demonstrating across the country to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh face trial for charges ranging from corruption to deadly crackdowns on protests. (Hani Mohammed)




[Image]Supporters of Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) protest in Colombo on November 29, 2011. They were protesting the jailing of the former army chief Darath Fonseka, a business take over bill and the government’s 2012 budget proposals. Getty




[Image]Members of India’s National Domestic Workers Movement from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) region are watched by co-ordinator Sister Mea Yaragani (2L) as they sign a sheet while participating in a protest meet and signature campaign in Hyderabad on November 29, 2011. The protesors are demanding the ratification of the 189th International Labour Organization (ILO) convention by the Indian government and their inclusion in the Sexual Harassment Bill 2010. There are between 120000-150000 domestic workers in the state. Getty




[Image]Workers protest as they shout slogans demanding higher wages in front of Indonesia’s presidential palace in Jakarta, November 29, 2011. Indonesia has been hit by a series of strikes in recent months and is expected to see more labour disputes, as workers demanded a greater share of profits in one of Asia’s fastest growing economies. Reuters




[Image]Miss Water South Africa Kirsten Dukes poses in front of a banner during a protest by environmental activists outside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties meeting (COP17) in Durban, November 29, 2011. The gathering runs until December 9. Reuters




[Image]Student, wearing niqabs, protest on November 29, 2011 in the building housing the office of the dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manuba, 25 kms west of Tunis. Several hundred people gathered at the university to demand the right for female students to wear full face veils in class and pass exams. A group of Salafists disrupted classes on November 28 at the university, demanding a stop to mixed-sex classes and for female students to wear full face veils. Getty




[Image]Workers take part in a rally during a protest against government austerity measures organized by the PAME Communist-affiliated union in central Athens Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. The 17 finance ministers of the countries that use the euro converged on EU headquarters Tuesday in a desperate bid to save their currency – and to protect Europe, the United States, Asia and the rest of the global economy from a debt-induced financial tsunami. AP




[Image]Supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (Pakistan’s Movement for Justice) pray after a demonstration against NATO cross-border attack in Lahore November 29, 2011. Pakistan’s government confirmed it would not attend an international conference on the future of Afghanistan in Bonn next week to protest against a NATO cross-border attack that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers. Reuters




[Image]Riot police detain two students inside the national congress during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education system in Valparaiso city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago, November 29, 2011. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is the profiteering in the state education system. Reuters




[Image]Pakistani protesters rally to condemn NATO strikes on Pakistani soldiers, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Pakistan pulled out of an upcoming meeting in Germany on the future of Afghanistan to protest the deadly attack by U.S.-led forces on its troops, widening the fallout on Tuesday from an incident that has sent ties between Washington and Islamabad into a tailspin. Placard at right reads “run NATO and wake Pakistan army”. (K.M. Chaudary)




[Image]A demonstrator holds a sign that reads in Portuguese: “The fight on the forest starts in the streets”, during a protest against the approval of the new Brazilian forest code in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Brazil’s lower house in May approved changes to the law that would ease environmental restrictions in the Amazon and other regions in Brazil. Brazil’s Senate is expected to approve the measure this week, though President Dilma Rousseff has promised to veto some parts of the bill.




[Image]Female Iranian protesters attend a demonstration in front of the British Embassy, as one of them holds a poster of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Dozens of hard-line Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, bringing down the Union Jack flag and throwing documents from windows in scenes reminiscent of the anger against Western powers after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.




[Image]An elderly protestor flashes the victory sign during a demonstration demanding the prosecution of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis are demonstrating across the country to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh face trial for charges ranging from corruption to deadly crackdowns on protests. (Hani Mohammed)




[Image]Mariachi musicians perform as Greenpeace activists demand Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff protect the Amazon as they protest outside Brazil’s embassy in Mexico City, Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011. Brazil’s government has authorized the construction of one the world’s largest hydroelectric dams, the Belo Monte dam, in the state of Para, and the federal prosecutors’ office in Para has said they will go to the Supreme Court to appeal the ruling.















[Image]Malaysian lawyers hold placards as they shout slogans during a protest in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Hundreds of Malaysian lawyers staged a rare protest march Tuesday demanding that the government abandon plans for a law that will forbid street rallies. (Lai Seng Sin)




[Image]Protesters shout slogans as they hold candles with placards reading “Invalidity, FTA between South Korea and the U.S.” during a candle rally, denouncing the passing of a bill on ratification of a South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. South Korea’s president on Tuesday signed a slew of laws needed to implement the country’s free trade deal with the United States, amid growing protests denouncing the accord at home. (Lee Jin-man)




[Image]UCLA students walk past a line of demonstrators lying on the Quad outside a meeting of the Board of Regents at the University of California, on the campus at UCLA in Los Angeles, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. The regents were originally scheduled to meet in mid-November at the San Francisco-Mission Bay campus, but the session was scrapped when law enforcement warned that protests could turn violent. (Reed Saxon)




[Image]Supporters of Progressive Organization of Women raise slogans during a protest rally in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. The protesters demanded introduction of a bill in the ongoing session of parliament for a separate statehood of Telangana region from the existing Andhra Pradesh state in southern India. (Gurinder Osan)




[Image]Police officers stand during a demonstration by security forces in Tunis, Monday, Nov.28, 2011. Security forces are protesting against police officers sued on trial for their alleged role in the revolution. On armband reads: “Stop, break the silence”. (Hassene Dridi)




[Image]Members of Occupy Philly, from right to left, Shawn Grant, Brianne Murphy, and Diane Isser, demonstrate at Dilworth Plaza, in Philadelphia, on Sunday Nov. 27, 2011, in defiance of the city’s 5 p.m. eviction order. (Joseph Kaczmarek)




[Image]A member of Occupy Philly who identified herself as Laura watches the demonstration at Dilworth Plaza, in Philadelphia, Sunday Nov. 27, 2011, held in defiance of the city’s 5 p.m. eviction order. (Joseph Kaczmarek)





















	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
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Wkipedia entry – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMEN


FEMEN (Ukrainian:Фемен) is a Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev, founded in 2008. The organisation became internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international ills.[1][4][5][6][7][8][9] Some of the goals of the organisation are: “To develop leadership, intellectual and moral qualities of the young women in Ukraine” and “To build up the image of Ukraine, the country with great opportunities for women”.[3]




















The organisation


Female university students between 18 and 20 years old form the backbone of the movement.[2] In Kiev, there are about 300 active participants in the movement.[10] There are few male members of FEMEN.[1] The group comprises some 20 topless activists and 300 fully clothed members.[11][12] Most of its demonstrations are staged in Kiev,[4][8] but FEMEN has also held actions in cities like Odessa,[13] Dnipropetrovsk[14] and Zaporizhia.[15] While most of the protests have been ‘topless’ in 2010 one FEMEN protester exposed her buttocks outside a locked toilet in a demonstration to protest about the lack of public toilets in Kiev.[11]


The goals of the organization is “to shake women in Ukraine, making them socially active; to organize in 2017 a women’s revolution.”[10] The group has stated it has enjoyed limited success in pushing its agenda.[16] As of late April 2010 the organisation is contemplating becoming a political party to run for seats in the next Ukrainian parliamentary election.[1][10]


FEMEN justifies its provocative methods stating “This is the only way to be heard in this country. If we staged simple protests with banners, then our claims would not have been noticed”.[17] The organisation plans to become the biggest and the most influential feminist movement in Europe.[3][10]


Some members claim their involvement in FEMEN caused their families to become alienated from them.[10][18]


FEMEN receives small financial backing by individuals[10][11][19] (including DJ Hell[18]).


Facebook initially blocked the FEMEN page because it suspected it was pornographic.[18]


Late April 2011 the organization claimed it was setting up international branches in Warsaw, Zurich, Rome, Tel Aviv and Rio de Janeiro.[20][21] They also claimed that after the early 2010 election of President Viktor Yanukovych the Security Service of Ukraine has attempted to intimidate the FEMEN activists.[18]


FEMEN occasionally holds rallies outside Ukraine.[22][23][24][25]












FEMEN protest in Kiev during the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election








The movement was founded in 2008 by Anna Hutsol (born 1983, most FEMEN members are younger[2]) after she became attuned to the sad stories of Ukrainian woman duped by false promises from abroad:[2] “I set up FEMEN because I realised that there was a lack of women activists in our society; Ukraine is male-oriented and women take a passive role.”[26] Since then the organization has staged noticeable erotically-flavored rallies (among others) near the building of the Cabinet of Ministers, at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the Turkish embassy in Ukraine[2] and in front of the Iranian embassy to oppose the expected execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.[27]


Hutsol is adamantly opposed to legalizing prostitution in Ukraine.[2] FEMEN proposed the introduction of criminal responsibility for the use of sex industry services late in May 2009.[28]


A demonstration by a group called RU FEMEN in the Russian capital Moscow late April 2011[29] was immediately denounced as a fake offspring of FEMEN.[20][21] FEMEN accused Russian political party United Russia of having set up this RU FEMEN.[20][21]


Cultural and political image


FEMEN’s actions received criticisms in Ukraine for “being meaningless” or “being outright tasteless”.[11] According to Ukrainian gender studies expert Tetyana Bureychak most Ukrainian women are unimpressed by FEMEN.[30] According to sociologist Oleh Demkiv of the Lviv University FEMEN does not enjoy popular support.[31]


According to Reuters “Femen represents — albeit on a modest scale — one of the few regular street protest movements”.[12] In Ukraine the FEMEN activists have been labeled “girls Tymoshenko” and/or “Putin‘s agents[10][relevant? – discuss]; some parents of FEMEN activists have wondered if they were addicted to drugs.[10] But the organization claims to be an independent organization “Beyond politics and beyond religion”.[10]


The group’s actions have been reported in news-outlets such as CNN, BBC News,[6] Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Independent.ie,[3] France 24,[26] on Euronews,[27] Kyiv Post,[32] Mizozo,[33] USA Today,[34] Reuters[12] and The Washington Post.

	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
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Members of the activist group FEMEN protest at what they see as the manipulation of the democratic system at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The signs read “The War Begins Here” and “Stop Raping the Country.”

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Creative idea explanation: The goal of the ‘Do you want me?’ project was to draw attention of the international web-community to a problem of sex-tourism in Ukraine, and to show that, as mentioned by Femin activists, ‘Ukraine is no brothel’.. Website do-you-want.me gives every user a chance to find himself in an urban den of inquity, pick a girl or a guy (tastes differ) for a paid ‘one time pleasure’. Before the erotic dance starts, the user must prove his solvency by activating the webcam and showing a banknote. Onlyafter the virtual character sees the money, will the story continue. Few will like the way the story goes – a trivial plot, so it seems… evolves into a naked truth(both literally and metaphorically) – we see how our paid sex-partner is being beaten up and addicted to drugs.

	


	



			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			

			
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Topless FEMEN activists hold signs with football balls hanging from their underwear.





























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[Image]Supporters of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, or Indian Workers Group, raise slogans at a protest rally in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. The supporters demanded that the government protect workers rights in the ongoing economic reform process as well as the financial crisis. (Gurinder Osan)




[Image]Yemenis protest against President Ali Abdullah Saleh during a rally after the weekly Friday noon prayers in Sanaa on November 25, 2011. Opponents and supporters of Yemen’s embattled president held rival rallies in the capital after pre-dawn fighting between rival security forces dashed hopes an exit deal for the president would end the violence. Getty




[Image]Women perform prayers at the Taghyeer (Change) Square, where anti-government protesters have been camping for around ten months to call for the ouster and trial of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa November 27, 2011. Reuters




[Image]Yemeni women and anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the trial of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on November 26, 2011. Getty




[Image]Demonstrators gather during protests against a nuclear waste transport in Dannenberg, northern Germany, Saturday Nov. 26, 2011. The shipment of nuclear waste reprocessed in France is on its way to a controversial storage site in Gorleben that protesters say is unsafe. It is the first such shipment from France to Germany since Berlin decided to shut all its nuclear plants by 2022, following the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima plant. The transport is due to arrive at the storage site on Sunday.




[Image]A demonstrator dressed as a clown stands between police officers during protests against a shipment of nuclear waste to the storage facility in Gorleben, in Hitzacker, northern Germany Sunday Nov. 27, 2011. (Axel Heimken)




[Image]People demonstrate during a protest against violence in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Demonstrators wore skull masks or painted their faces as skulls to symbolize the victims of violence in Mexico. Over 50,000 people have died since Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched his offensive against organized crime in 2006. (Marco Ugarte)




[Image]Libyan Amazigh Berbers protest outside the prime minister’s office in Tripoli on November 27, 2011 as they step up pressure for the minority group to to be represented in the government. Getty




[Image]Environment activists Hanna Schwarz, right, and Heiko Mueller-Ripke, have chained themselves inside a pyramid with concrete inside, they claim, on the tracks near Hitzacker, Sunday Nov. 27, 2011. Police has difficulties for hours, to unchain the protesters without injuring them. The activists protest against a nuclear waste transport from France to a storage in Gorleben. (Axel Heimken)




[Image]Members of the Ethiopian community block the entrance to Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption during a protest in Jerusalem November 27, 2011. About 400 Israelis of Ethiopian descent took part in the protest on Sunday calling on the government to grant permission for their relatives living in Ethiopia to immigrate. Reuters




[Image]Demonstrators drum on barrels with a nuclear sign, during protests against a nuclear waste transport in Dannenberg, northern Germany, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. The shipment of nuclear waste reprocessed in France is on its way to a controversial storage site in Gorleben that protesters say is unsafe. It is the first such shipment from France to Germany since Berlin decided to shut all its nuclear plants by 2022, following the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima plant.




[Image]Oxfam (a confederation of 15 organizations working together to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice) activists make a protest aimed at 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban on November 27, 2011. Inspired by the Occupy Wall St. movement, protesters calling for ‘climate justice’ are set to gather on November 28 at the opening of UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, organisers say. Getty




[Image]In tihis picture taken Saturday Nov. 26, 2011 police carries an environment activist away from the tracks near Harlingen, northern Germany. German police say they cleared a sit-in of about 3,500 protesters attempting to block a shipment of nuclear waste with security forces temporarily detaining 1,300 of them. (Philipp Guelland)




[Image]South Korean police say nearly 40 officers were injured during a rally opposing the ratification of the country’s free trade deal with the United States.Hundreds of protesters have been staging near-daily demonstrations since the ruling party railroaded the U.S. trade deal last week. The protesters believe the deal favors Washington over South Korean workers. About 2,200 people rallied in Seoul on Saturday evening, November 26, 2011.




[Image]Sarah Elbaroudy, age seven, from Long Island, stands during a collaborative protest between the Occupy Wall Street movement and people supporting the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and the current social unrest throughout Egypt, near the Egyptian Embassy to the United States, at the intersection of East 44th Street and Second Avenue, in New York, November 26, 2011. Reuters




[Image]A woman dressed as the Grim Reaper attends a protest against shale gas exploration and production in Sofia on November 26, 2011. Bulgaria gave in July a licence to the United States energy major Chevron for the exploration of an area in the north-eastern part of Bulgaria. Getty




[Image]A young Romanian woman wearing make up to suggest she is a victim of domestic violence takes part in a protest in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Dozens of women gathered in protest on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women demanding the introduction of the restraining order in Romanian legislation. Romania is a European Union member state but has no proper legal framework to combat domestic violence against women.




[Image]Israelis covered in red color demonstrates as part of the International Anti-fur Coalition protest in Tel Aviv. Friday. Nov. 25, 2011. The demonstration was part of an international protest against fur trade.(Dan Balilty)




[Image]An Egyptian girl holds an anti-Israel banner during a protest at al Azhar mosque, the highest Islamic Sunni institution, after Friday prayers in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. The Muslim brotherhood demonstration was to denounce Israeli control over Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam. Arabic and Hebrew reads ” Death for Israel”. (Amr Nabil)















[Image]An Egyptian woman holds up an infant during a rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Tens of thousands of protesters chanting, “Leave, leave!” filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a massive demonstration to force Egypt’s ruling military council to yield power. The Friday rally is dubbed by organizers as “The Last Chance Million-Man Protest,” and comes one day after the military offered an apology for the killing of nearly 40 protesters in clashes on side streets near Tahrir Square.




[Image]Filipino women activists stage a play to symbolize human rights violations during a demonstration to mark the International Day of Action on Violence Against Women near the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, Friday Nov. 25, 2011. The women’s group held the rally to raise public awareness and encourage continuing action to eliminate violence against women. (Aaron Favila)




[Image]Students march demanding an education reform in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Protesters are demanding more funding and other changes to the public education system.(Fernando Vergara)




[Image]Protesters are hit with water from a police water canon during a march for education reform in Santiago, Chile, Thursday Nov. 24, 2011. Protesters have demanded more funding and other changes to the public education system. The annual budget is due to be approved by Nov. 30. (Luis Hidalgo)




[Image]Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad slogans during a protest against the Arab League meeting, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday Nov. 24, 2011. An Arab League committee has given Syria 24 hours to agree to allow an observer mission into the country or it could face sanctions. (Bassem Tellawi)




[Image]A woman cycles past a group of petitioners holding red scarves as they protest outside the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. About 30 petitioners who they said were infected with HIV from blood transfusions held up a chain of red scarves to symbolize their demands the government to provide compensation for their children’s treatment, in conjunction of the upcoming World AIDS Day, which falls on Dec. 1. (Andy Wong)




[Image]A woman protester attempts to dismantle a barbed wire barricade, newly erected by the Egyptian army, near Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. International criticism of Egypt’s military rulers is mounting after five days of clashes between police and protesters demanding the generals relinquish power immediately. (Tara Todras-Whitehill)




[Image]A protester takes a break during clashes with Egyptian riot police, not pictured, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Egyptian police are clashing with anti-government protesters for a fifth day in Cairo. Tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square have rejected a promise by Egypt’s military ruler to speed up a presidential election to the first half of next year.




[Image]A woman blocks the entrance to Congress as riot police stand guard in Guatemala City, Wednesday Nov. 23, 2011. Protesters are demanding that Congress approve the Ley de Vivienda, or Housing Act, which would allow them to attain legal titles to the lands where they built their homes. (Rodrigo Abd)




[Image]A protester affiliated with the Occupy Toronto movement shouts support to fellow protesters inside a barricaded pavilion in their camp in St. James Park in Toronto on Wednesday Nov. 23, 2011, as police and city officials enforce an eviction notice. (Chris Young)




[Image]Police officers detain opposition demonstrators during an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. Several dozen people were detained in central Moscow where they were protesting against the lack of alternatives in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. (Alexander Zemlianichenko)




[Image]Anti-government protesters shout during a rally organized by the 20th February, the Moroccan Arab Spring movement in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Nov 20, 2011, in a mass popular call to bring more democracy into this North African kingdom. Thousands of Moroccans from the pro-democracy movement braved pouring rain and high winds in Casablanca to make a final call to boycott upcoming elections. (Abdeljalil Bounhar)





	


	



			
				


			
				


			

			
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[Image]Activists from Ukraine’s scandalous FEMEN group holds a banner reading ‘woman is not a commodity’ as they stage a topless protest on November 10, 2011 against prostitution and woman as a commodity in an official prostitution’s street in Zurich. Getty[Image]




[Image]An activist of the Ukrainian women movement Femen is being arrested by policemen in front of St Peter’s basilica after holding a placard asking for ‘Freedom for women’ following Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus prayer on November 6, 2011 at St Peter’s square at The Vatican. Getty




[Image]An activist of the Ukrainian women movement Femen is taken away by Italian policemen in front of St Peter’s basilica after holding a placard asking for ‘Freedom for women’ following Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus prayer on November 6, 2011 at St Peter’s square at The Vatican. Getty




[Image]An activist of the Ukrainian female rights organization “Femen” shows a placard demanding freedom for women, during a protest at the end of Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. (Pier Paolo Cito)




[Image]Ukrainian women’s rights group Femen, painted in colors of the Italian flag, take part in a demonstration staged by the Italian Democratic party to protest against Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in Rome, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. The International Monetary Fund will monitor Italy’s financial reform efforts, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday, a humbling step for one of the world’s biggest _ but also most indebted _ economies as market confidence in its future wanes.




[Image]Activists from Ukraine’s scandalous FEMEN group dressed as housemaids stage a topless protest in a show of anger against French former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s attitude towards women in front of his residence in Paris on October 31, 2011. FEMEN has gained worldwide fame by staging a string of topless protests in Ukraine and now in Europe, in recent years to draw attention to issues from the exploitation of women to corruption. The placard read at L ‘ecstasy of power’, at R ‘your shame can’t be clean up’. Getty




[Image]People walk in front of Kiev Zoo, as activists of the Ukrainian female rights organization “Femen”, take part in a topless protest in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Kiev zoo is a place that Femen’s activists compared to a concentration camp for those with fur and feathers. Hundreds of animals died at the zoo in recent years due to malnutrition, lack of medical care and abuse, and some suspect that corruption is at the heart of the problem.




[Image]Securty guards detain an activist of the Ukrainian female rights organization “Femen”, during an action of protest in front of Kiev Zoo, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Kiev zoo is a place that Femen’s activists compared to a concentration camp for those with fur and feathers. Hundreds of animals died at the zoo in recent years due to malnutrition, lack of medical care and abuse, and some suspect that corruption is at the heart of the problem. Femen calls for the 100-year-old zoo to be closed.




[Image]Secury guards detain an activist of the Ukrainian female rights organization “Femen”, during an action of nude protest in front of Kiev Zoo, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Kiev zoo is a place that Femen’s activists compared to a concentration camp for those with fur and feathers. Hundreds of animals died at the zoo in recent years due to malnutrition, lack of medical care and abuse, and some suspect that corruption is at the heart of the problem.




[Image]Police detain a member of women’s activist group FEMEN after their protest against government policy in front front of the Cabinet building in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug.24, 2011. The former Soviet republic marks the 20th anniversary of its independence. (Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Police detain a member of the women’s activist group FEMEN, after their protest against government policy in front of the Cabinet building in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. The former Soviet republic is marking the 20th anniversary of its independence. (Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Ukrainian women’s rights group Femen, painted in colors of the European Union countries, protest against the regular summer switch off of public utility supply of hot water in central Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, July 14, 2011. Women symbolically wash themselves in the city fountain to protest the need for hot water all year round, and to highlight the need for the hot water utility during the upcoming EURO 2012 soccer competition.(Efrem Lukatsky)[Image]




[Image]Ukrainian women’s rights group Femen holding a picket in front of a court building, against the detention of a fellow activist in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. The poster reads, “Hands off, Femen”. Opposition politicians and democrats insist that President Viktor Yanukovych trampled Ukraine’s constitution in a bit to monopolize political power.(Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Ukrainian women’s rights group Femen, painted in colors of the European Union countries, protest against the regular summer switch off of public utility supply of hot water in central Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, July 14, 2011. Women symbolically wash themselves in the city fountain to protest the need for hot water all year round, and to highlight the need for the hot water utility during the upcoming EURO 2012 soccer competition. (Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Police detain Alexandra Shevchenko a member of women’s activist group FEMEN, in front of parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Ukrainians are fiercely opposed to the pension fund reform, which parliament is set to consider this week, that is meant to raise the retirement age for women. (Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Semi naked activists from the Ukrainian female rights group Femen protest in front of the Saudi Arabian embassy against a ban on driving cars for women in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, June 16, 2011. (Sergei Chuzavkov)




[Image]An secury guard detains an activist of the Ukrainian female rights organization ‘Femen’ during an action of protest in front of the city’s State Administration at a opening ceremony of clocks counting down time that remains before the EURO 2012 soccer tournament starts, in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Writing on her back reads ‘Euro 2012 without Prostitution’. (Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Activists of the Women’s Movement ‘FEMEN’ perform during a protest against the politics of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, during a rally to protest against what they claim is the sex-tourism and trafficking of women from Ukraine, at Independence square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. The Women’s Movement ‘FEMEN’ is an organization of the young women of the city of Kiev orientated to represent and defend the rights of women-students of the capital. (Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Activists of the Women’s Movement ‘FEMEN’ performs and shout anti-Lukashenko slogans protesting against his politics in Belarus during a rally at Independence square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, May. 11, 2011. The poster reads ‘Put Lukashenko on the Rack!’. The Women’s Movement ‘FEMEN’ is an organization of the young women of the city of Kiev oriented on the women-students of the capital. The main program of the movement is the national campaign against the sex tourism and women trafficking. (Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Activists of the Women’s Movement ‘FEMEN’ performs and shout anti-Lukashenko slogans protesting against his politics in Belarus during a rally at Independence square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, May. 11, 2011. The poster reading ‘Crush a cockroach’. The Women’s Movement ‘FEMEN’ is an organization of the young women of the city of Kiev oriented on the women-students A depiction of Lukashenko is seen in the background. (Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Ukrainian police hold back activists from the women’s rights organization “Femen” during a protest close to the site of the international donors conference to clean up the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Poster reads “Yanukovych is worse than radiation”. On April 26, Ukraine marks the 25th anniversary of the fatal explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (Ukrafoto)















[Image]Ukrainian activists from the group Femen protest Iran’s treatment of women during the opening of Iranian Culture Days in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. (Sergei Chuzavkov)




[Image]Activists of the Ukrainian Women’s Movement “FEMEN” shout protests in front of the Iranian Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, against the death penalty given to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two children, who was sentenced to death by stoning in Iran on charges of adultery. (Sergei Chuzavkov)




[Image]In this photo taken on Thursday, July 15, 2010, police detain activists of the local FEMEN women’s rights watchdog as they protest against the regular summer switch off of hot water in the city in downtown Kiev, Ukraine. A group of young activists is gaining popularity here for staging topless protests that involve sexually charged gestures, obscene slogans and scuffles with security guards and police. Often, the point seems to be just getting naked.




[Image]Members of the activist group Femen protest at what they see as the manipulation of the democratic system at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The signs read “The War Begins Here” and “Stop Raping the Country.” (Mikhail Metzel)




[Image]Members of the activist group Femen protest at what they see as the manipulation of the democratic system at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (Mikhail Metzel)




[Image]Activists of the Women’s Movement “FEMEN”, dressed as prostitutes, take part in a rally outside the Central Election Commission office in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. The event was meant to highlight what the group called political prostitution and crude populism in the election campaign. The posters with the logos of the leading candidates and signature “Choose me” in Ukraine’s presidential race are seen at top.




[Image]An activist of the Women’s Movement “FEMEN”, dressed as a prostitute, holds a poster with the logo of one of the leading candidates and signature “Choose me” in Ukraine’s presidential race, during a rally outside the Central Election Commission office in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. The event was meant to highlight what the group called political prostitution and crude populism, in the election campaign.




[Image]A security officer stops an activist of the Women’s Movement ‘FEMEN’ from climbing a barrier at Mykhailivska Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, prior the opening of the meeting for UEFA EURO 2012. The ‘FEMEN’ movement is campaigning against sex tourism and the trafficking of women in Ukraine. (Efrem Lukatsky)





	


	



			
				


			

			
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[Image]Members of the Galician pro-indepence group Ceive stage a protest in favor of the transfert of jailed Galician independentist to Galician jails, next to a polling station in the village of Escravitude, some 20 kms from Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, on November 20, 2011. Spaniards voted in rain-swept elections Sunday that were all but certain to hand a thundering victory to the right and topple yet another debt-laden eurozone government. Bowed by a 21,5 percent jobless rate, economic stagnation and deep spending cuts, the first voters of the 36 million-strong Spanish electorate headed to polls ready to punish the ruling Socialists. Getty




[Image]A protester gestures during clashes with Egyptian riot police, not seen, near the interior ministry in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. Firing tear gas and rubber bullets, Egyptian riot police on Sunday clashed for a second day with thousands of rock-throwing protesters demanding that the ruling military quickly announce a date to hand over power to an elected government. (Tara Todras-Whitehill)




[Image]A protester overcome with tear gas inhalation is helped inside a cafe during clashes with the Egyptian riot police, not seen, near the interior ministry in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. Firing tear gas and rubber bullets, Egyptian riot police on Sunday clashed for a second day with thousands of rock-throwing protesters demanding that the ruling military quickly announce a date to hand over power to an elected government. (Tara Todras-Whitehill)




[Image]Wounded protesters are seen in a field hospital during clashes with Egyptian riot police in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. Firing tear gas and rubber bullets, Egyptian riot police on Sunday clashed for a second day with thousands of rock-throwing protesters demanding that the ruling military quickly announce a date to hand over power to an elected government. (Khalil Hamra)




[Image]Occupy Oakland protester Abby Balanda demonstrates during a march through Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland pushed down a chain-link fence surrounding a city-owned vacant lot where they planned a new encampment on Saturday. (Noah Berger)




[Image]An Occupy Oakland protester, who declined to give her name, pitches a tent to establish a new encampment in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Police raided the group’s previous camp on Monday. Anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland pushed down a chain-link fence surrounding a city-owned vacant lot where they planned a new encampment on Saturday. (Noah Berger)




[Image]A police officer arrests a demonstrator affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement as they block the entrance to the New York Stock Exchange on Broad Street, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 in New York. Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy protest movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators marched through New York’s financial district and promised a national day of action with mass gatherings in other cities. (Mary Altaffer)




[Image]Police officers arrest a demonstrator affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 in New York. Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy protest movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators marched through New York’s financial district and promised a national day of action with mass gatherings in other cities. (Mary Altaffer)[Image]




[Image]Naked Israeli women pose for a photograph in Tel Aviv, November 19, 2011, to show solidarity with Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, who put naked pictures of herself on the Internet, support free expression and protest against Islamic extremism. The banner reads: “Love With No Boundaries”. Picture taken November 19, 2011. Reuters




[Image]Tibetan Buddhist nun Palden Choetso sits in a house, in this handout picture taken in 1998 and recently released by the http://www.freetibet. org organisation. The 35-year-old Tibetan Buddhist nun burned herself to death on a public street an hour’s drive away on November 3, 2011, the latest in a string of self-immolations to protest against Chinese religious controls over Tibet. In China, eleven Tibetan monks and nuns — some former clergy — have resorted to the extreme protest since March this year. At least six have been fatal. Reuters




[Image]Activists are blocked by the police during a march against the use of fur on November 19, 2011 in Paris, France. The march, in its third year, is held to protest the use of animal fur in fashion and animal cruelty. Getty




[Image]Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad slogans during a demonstration to show their soldarity with their president, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday Nov. 20, 2011. Residents in the Syrian capital awoke to two loud explosions Sunday amid reports from activists that the Damascus headquarters of the ruling Baath party had been hit by several rocket-propelled grenades. But eyewitnesses said the party headquarters appeared intact and reported no significant security deployments.




[Image]Women supporters hold placards during a protest organised by Awami National Conference in Srinagar on November 19, 2011. The protesters demanded revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act in restive Kashmir. The draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was introduced in 1990 to give the army and paramilitary forces sweeping powers to detain people, use deadly force and destroy property. Violence is at its lowest in Indian Kashmir since the start of the insurgency that has so far left more than 47,000 people dead by official count but separatists putting the toll twice as high. Getty




[Image]Spain’s ‘indignant’ protesters demostrate in the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid on November 19, 2011 against spending cuts, high unemployment and political corruption, a week before a general election. Spain’s so-called ‘indignant’ protest movement was born when thousands of people set up camp in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square ahead of May 22 municipal elections. Getty









[Image]A female protester gestures as she argues with Egyptian riot police officers in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Egyptian riot police beat protesters and dismantled a small tent city set up to commemorate revolutionary martyrs in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday. (Khalil Hamra)




[Image]Egyptian women wave flags during a rally in Cairo’s Tahrir square, Egypt, Friday, Nov.18, 2011, in a protest against what they say are attempts by the country’s military rulers to reinforce their powers. The rally Friday was dominated by the country’s most organized political group, the Muslim Brotherhood.




[Image]Egyptian Laila Soueif, at left, the mother of prominent blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah who was jailed by Egypt’s ruling generals, who is on hunger strike to protest her son’s detention, as they celebrate Alaa’s 30th birthday in Cairo’s Tahrir square, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. At Friday’s rally in Tahrir square, protesters gathered to celebrate the birthday of one of the most prominent revolutionary bloggers to be jailed by the military prosecutor. (Amr Nabil)




[Image]Bahraini demonstrators gesture Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in A’ali, Bahrain, in front of a replica of the massive protest encampment that was demolished by government forces last spring in the crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising, complete with tents and a model of the landmark pearl monument (unseen). Thousands of Shiite-led protesters calling for greater rights streamed into the area outside the capital of Manama in one of the largest demonstrations in weeks against the Gulf kingdom’s rulers.




[Image]Muslims rally in Foley Square during a protest of ethnic profiling by law enforcement on November 18, 2011 in New York City. Muslims held a rally and Friday prayers and were joined by protesters affiliated with Occupy Wall Street. Getty




[Image]Animal activists, painted in “blood”, lie on a pile of fur during a protest in Belgrade November 18, 2011. The protest was held in conjunction with the “anti-fur” campaign in Europe. Reuters




[Image]Syrians living in Turkey write ‘Freedom’ with their blood during a protest against the government of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in front of the Syrian consulate in Istanbul, on November 18, 2011. Turkey added its voice Friday to warnings that civil war threatens Syria, while France’s top diplomat called for stepped up sanctions against Damascus, which he said had left it too late to reform. Getty















[Image]Opponents of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra hold banners as they shout during a protest in central Bangkok November 18, 2011. Opponents of Thaksin Shinawatra said on Thursday they could take to the streets if the government led by his sister tried to push through an amnesty that would let him return from exile a free man. Reuters




[Image]Muslims listen during a rally in Foley Square to protest against the NYPD surveillance operations of Muslim communities, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in New York. Hundreds of Muslims gathered in prayer Friday to oppose a decade of police spying on Muslim communities. The crowd filled about three-fourths of Foley Square in lower Manhattan, not far from City Hall. Demonstrators were scheduled to march on police headquarters (Bebeto Matthews)




[Image]Dorli Rainey, 84, left, who was pepper-sprayed by police last Tuesday while taking part in an “Occupy Seattle” protest, speaks Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in front of police headquarters in downtown Seattle. Rainey and several dozen others marched to the station Friday and held the rally to call attention to how protesters have been treated. (Ted S. Warren)




[Image]Virila Perez, left, and Francisco Gonzalez, who work as municipal trash collectors, demonstrate against proposed lay-offs by lying on broken glass in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday Nov. 18, 2011. Asuncion’s municipal government is proposing cuts in employment to reduce the cost of municipal workers to 60% of the city budget. The sign covering them reads in Spanish “Until the final fight, overcome or die.” (Jorge Saenz)




[Image]Annette Jones waits with other demonstrators to be arrested during a protest organized by Occupy Chicago and Stand Up Chicago November 17, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The demonstration was one of many protests held nationwide to mark the second month of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Getty




[Image]Occupy Seattle protestors demonstrate at the University Bridge, temporarily shutting it down, after meeting others from Seattle Central Community College during a national day of action, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, in Seattle. Traffic was snarled around Seattle’s University District as two rallies marched toward the bridge. (Kevin P. Casey)




[Image]Eugene Police officers carry an Occupy Eugene protester away after arresting her for blocking the entrance to a Chase Bank in Eugene, Ore. Nov. 17, 2011. Occupy Eugene protesters spent an afternoon demonstrating at bank offices, and 17 were arrested. (Chris Pietsch)




[Image]A Occupy Portland protester is arrested by Portland Police officers after protesters take over a Wells Fargo bank Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, in Portland, Ore. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators held modestly sized, but energetic rallies around the country Thursday to celebrate two months since the movement’s birth and signal that they aren’t ready to quit yet, despite police raids that have destroyed some of their encampments. (Rick Bowmer)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street protesters walk across the Brooklyn Bridge after a rally in Foley Square, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 in New York. Organizers with the Service Employees International Union and progressive groups staged similar bridge marches in several cities in an event that was planned weeks ago, but happened to coincide with rallies marking two months since the start of the Occupy movement (Henny Ray Abrams)




[Image]Protesters willing to be arrested, including Donna Cassult, left, of Minneapolis, linked arms and sat on the roadway of the 10th Ave. Bridge in Minneapolis and waited for police to place them in custody Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Demonstrators peacefully shut down the 10th Ave. Bridge during rush hour to call attention to the need for more jobs and racial equality in employment.




[Image]Police officers arrest a demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 in New York. Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy protest movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators marched through New York’s financial district and promised a national day of action with mass gatherings in other cities. (Mary Altaffer)




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[Image]Spanish ‘indignant’ protesters hold a placard reading ‘We do not want fascists’ during a protest in front of a campaign meeting of the far-right party ‘Plataforma per Catalunya’ on November 13, 2011 in Barcelona. Hundreds of Spain’s ‘indignant’ protesters marched through the streets of Madrid Sunday to protest spending cuts, high unemployment and political corruption, a week before a general election. In Barcelona about 30 members of the movement decided at an assembly Saturday to camp out in the Plaza de Catalunya until the general election on November 20. Getty




[Image]Two girls holds a coffin with a doll inside that wearing a mask with the faces of presidential candidates of Popular Party Mariano Rajoy and Socialist Party Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba during a demonstration against the government and banks in Madrid on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. Spain goes to the polls for presidential elections on November 20. (Arturo Rodriguez)




[Image]Public workers march during a protest in Lisbon’s main avenue of Liberdade November 12, 2011. Public workers, policemen and military personnel are holding several protests in Lisbon against the job and 2012 state budget cuts. Reuters




[Image]A woman holds up a sign that reads “No is No” as she takes part in the “Marcha de las Putas” (SlutWalk), held to protest against discrimination and violence against women in Lima, November 12, 2011. The march is part of the SlutWalk protest movement which started after a policeman advised women students in Canada to “avoid dressing like sluts”. Reuters




[Image]Pro-Syrian regime protesters, hold up portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic words: ” The lion (Assad) of resistance and the rejectionism” during a demonstration against the Arab League decision to suspend Syria in front the Syrian embassy, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. Tens of thousands of pro-regime demonstrators gathered in a Damascus square Sunday to protest the Arab League’s vote to suspend Syria over its bloody crackdown on the country’s eight-month-old uprising.




[Image]Syrian protesters shout anti-Syrian Preident Bashar Assad slogans during a protest in front of the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011 where the League emergency session on Syria is to discuss the country’s failure to end bloodshed caused by government crackdowns on civil protests. Protesters called the Arab League to suspend the country’s membership. Arabic read ” step out, we need to build civilian modern country” (Amr Nabil)




[Image]Demonstrators with cooking pots and colanders on their heads stand in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011. Thousands of people formed a human chain around the Frankfurt bank towers protesting against the power of banks. German police say more than ten thousand people are protesting against the banks’ dominance in two of the country’s major cities.




[Image]A group of protesters prepare their signs before heading out into the ocean to hold an anti-APEC protest at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 as the summit is held in Oahu over the weekend. (Marco Garcia)




[Image]Demonstrators hold a ribbon reading “smash banks, redistribute wealth” in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011. Thousands of people formed a human chain with the ribbon around the Frankfurt bank towers to protest against the power of banks.Thousands of people formed a human chain around the Frankfurt bank towers protesting against the worldwide power of banks. German police say more than ten thousand people are protesting against the banks’ dominance in two of the country’s major cities.




[Image]Protestors march through downtown Lisbon during a demonstration by military personnel associations against austerity measures Saturday, Nov. 12 2011. The Portuguese government plans to introduce more pay cuts and steep tax hikes next year while the country is struggling to restore its fiscal health despite a euro78 billion ($106 billion) bailout earlier this year. Banner reads ” Amnesty for the military punished for offenses of opinion” refering to military who have been punished for taking part in protests.




[Image]Students march against government plans to reform higher education in Medellin, Colombia, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Thousands of students march in the country’s main cities despite President Juan Manuel Santos’ proposal to withdraw a reform bill on higher education. (Luis Benavides)




[Image]A UCLA student arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers after she attempted to escape after eleven student protesters sat in circle in middle of the Westwood and Wilshire boulevard intersection as part of a protest of bank practices and rising fees at public universities on November 9, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. The protest organized by ReFund California was one of several planned at universities around the state. Getty




[Image]Students demonstrate against an education reform bill in Bogota, on November 10, 2011. Thousands of students from more than 30 public universities took to the streets in Colombia to protest against proposed education reforms they fear will partially privatize higher education. The students have been on strike over the past month to protest a bill put forward by President Juan Manuel Santos that would require public universities to generate some of their own revenues. On Wednesday Santos offered to withdraw the draft and open a dialogue if the more than half a million students on strike lift their form of pressure. Getty




[Image]A demonstrator holds a banner against the ECB in Naples on November 11, 2011 during a rally called ‘Occupy Napoli’ (Occupy Naples), refering to the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, to protest against banks and international financial power. Getty




[Image]Hungarian and foreign activists and sympathizers of the ‘True Democracy Now’ group hold banners reading ‘Direct Democracy’ (R) and ‘Be part’, (L) as an elderly woman mouth’s is covered by a fake 1000 euro bill in front the central bank of Budapest on November 11, 2011 during a demonstration for a better and livable world and to protest against the political and economical system. Getty




[Image]A protester holds a sign reading “Neither Tremonti nor Monti” during a protest in front of the Ministry of Finance in Rome November 11, 2011. The package of austerity measures that were demanded by the European Union will now go to the Italian lower house, which is expected to approve it on Saturday. That vote will trigger the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The signs refer to Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti and former European Commissioner Mario Monti, who is tipped as the favourite to replace Berlusconi. Reuters




[Image]A Yemeni woman covers her mouth with her hand painted in the colours of the national flag during to a protest against the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sanaa, on November11, 2011. Forces loyal to Yemeni President Abdullah Saleh shelled the country’s second largest city Taez, killing nine people, among them two women and a child, a medic and witnesses said. Getty




[Image]A protester holding a banner camps outside the Banca d’Italia on November 11, 2011 in Venice, Italy. Protest in several Italian cities have been called by the Indignados, students, social centres and other organizations for today 11.11.11 to protest against financial insitutions and cuts proposed by the Government. Getty




[Image]Dalbir Kaur, sister of Indian national Sarabjit Singh on death row in Pakistan, second right, along with supporters of All India Youth Foundation takes an oath for securing his release in front of the India Gate war memorial at 11:11 am, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. A placard on left reads, “People’s Voice, Sarabjit.” (Gurinder Osan)















[Image]An Indonesian Muslim woman wears a Palestinian flag face mask during a solidarity protest for the Palestinian people in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. (Irwin Fedriansyah)




[Image]Demonstrators of a group “Occupy Rio” protest against Rio de Janeiro’s governor Sergio Cabral in downtown Rio de Janeiro November 10, 2011. The demonstration, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, seeks to address the corruption in the police and the problems with the health care system under the governance of Cabral. Cabral had originally organized a demonstration to rally against an oil reform amendment approved by the lower house of Congress. Reuters




[Image]Protesters from the communist-affiliated trade union PAME shout slogans during an anti-government protest in Athens November 10, 2011. Greece named former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos on Thursday to head a crisis government, ending a chaotic search for a leader to save the country from default, bankruptcy and an exit from the euro zone. Reuters




[Image]A demonstrator marches during a student protest against government plans to reform higher education at the main square in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Thousands of students marched in the country’s main cities despite a government proposal to withdraw a reform bill on higher education. (William Fernando Martinez)




[Image]People wave flags of Rio de Janeiro state during a protest against an oil reform amendment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Thousands of Brazilians are demonstrating against a plan that reduces revenue for oil-producing states and the federal government while increasing oil royalties for non-producing states. (Felipe Dana)




[Image]Christian fundamentalist holds a candle during a demonstration against Italian director Romeo Castellucci’s play “On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God” in Rennes, western France, Thursday Nov. 10, 2011. Christian fundamentalists gathered outside the cultural palace the Theatre National de Bretagne, (National Theatre of Brittany), to protest against the play which they claim is blasphemous. (David Vincent)




[Image]One of the students with peaceful attitude cleans the shield of a riot policemen that was stained with paint by more violent protesters, during a demonstration against an education reform bill at Bogota’s main square Plaza de Bolivar, on November 10, 2011. Thousands of students from more than 30 public universities took to the streets in Colombia to protest against proposed education reforms they fear will partially privatize higher education. The students have been on strike over the past month to protest a bill put forward by President Juan Manuel Santos that would require public universities to generate some of their own revenues. On Wednesday Santos offered to withdraw the draft and open a dialogue if the more than half a million students on strike lift their form of pressure. Getty




[Image]NOVEMBER 09: UCLA graduate student Cheryl Deutsch is arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers after she and 10 other student protesters sat in circle in middle of the Westwood and Wilshire boulevard intersection as part of a protest of bank practices and rising fees at public universities on November 9, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. The protest organized by ReFund California was one of several planned at universities around the state. Getty




[Image]A woman shouts out as police officers move into the crowd of demonstrators and push people back during a student anti-cuts protest in London, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. Thousands of students marched through central London on Wednesday to protest cuts to public spending and a big increase in university tuition fees. Police said there were “a number of arrests for public order offenses” Wednesday, but the march was largely peaceful as demonstrators made their way through the city center.




[Image]A protester cries out as students and campaigners march through the streets of London in a protest against higher tuition fees and government cuts, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (Sang Tan)




[Image]A lone protester stands outside the Scottsdale Plaza Resort to protest Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain who was addressing the media Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Cain said Tuesday that he would not drop his bid for the Republicans’ presidential nomination in the face of decade-old allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior. (Charlie Leight)




[Image]Two members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) who are covered from head to toe in green and blue bodypaint, as they hold a banner reading, “Save the Planet, Go Vegan,” at the Nanjing pedestrian street in Shanghai, China Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (Eugene Hoshiko)




[Image]Protestors from Occupy Philly participate in a ‘die in’ demonstration outside a PNC Bank branch in Philadelphia on Monday Nov. 7, 2011. The demonstration was conducted to draw attention to PNC Bank’s business practices. (Joseph Kaczmarek)




[Image]A Syrian woman, who lives in Cairo, reacts as others wave a giant Syrian revolution flag during an anti-Syrian President Bashar Assad demonstration at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprisings, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 to support protesters in Syria during the first day of Islamic Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice. (Amr Nabil)




[Image]An activist of the Ukrainian female rights organization “Femen” shows a placard demanding freedom for women, during a protest at the end of Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. (Pier Paolo Cito)




[Image]Yemeni girls hold a giant Yemeni flag, left, as Syrians hold their revolution flag, right, during a protest against Yemeni and Syrian regimes at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 to support protesters in Yemen and Syria during the first day of Islamic Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice. (Amr Nabil)




[Image]Amy Barnes protests as police move in to clear a downtown street during an Occupy Atlanta demonstration late Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 in Atlanta. (David Goldman)




[Image]In this Nov. 27, 2010 file photo, Susanna Camusso, leader of Italy’s largest labor confederation CGIL, arrives to deliver her speech during a demonstration to protest government policies regarding the economical crisis, in Rome. In an interview with The Associated Press Monday Nov. 7, 2011, Camusso is predicting 2012 will be a “terrifying” year for the economy even if beleaguered Premier Silvio Berlusconi leaves power soon.

































































































	


	



			
				


			

			
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[Image]Spanish ‘indignant’ protesters hold a placard reading ‘We do not want fascists’ during a protest in front of a campaign meeting of the far-right party ‘Plataforma per Catalunya’ on November 13, 2011 in Barcelona. Hundreds of Spain’s ‘indignant’ protesters marched through the streets of Madrid Sunday to protest spending cuts, high unemployment and political corruption, a week before a general election. In Barcelona about 30 members of the movement decided at an assembly Saturday to camp out in the Plaza de Catalunya until the general election on November 20. Getty




[Image]Two girls holds a coffin with a doll inside that wearing a mask with the faces of presidential candidates of Popular Party Mariano Rajoy and Socialist Party Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba during a demonstration against the government and banks in Madrid on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. Spain goes to the polls for presidential elections on November 20. (Arturo Rodriguez)




[Image]Public workers march during a protest in Lisbon’s main avenue of Liberdade November 12, 2011. Public workers, policemen and military personnel are holding several protests in Lisbon against the job and 2012 state budget cuts. Reuters




[Image]A woman holds up a sign that reads “No is No” as she takes part in the “Marcha de las Putas” (SlutWalk), held to protest against discrimination and violence against women in Lima, November 12, 2011. The march is part of the SlutWalk protest movement which started after a policeman advised women students in Canada to “avoid dressing like sluts”. Reuters




[Image]Pro-Syrian regime protesters, hold up portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic words: ” The lion (Assad) of resistance and the rejectionism” during a demonstration against the Arab League decision to suspend Syria in front the Syrian embassy, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. Tens of thousands of pro-regime demonstrators gathered in a Damascus square Sunday to protest the Arab League’s vote to suspend Syria over its bloody crackdown on the country’s eight-month-old uprising.




[Image]Syrian protesters shout anti-Syrian Preident Bashar Assad slogans during a protest in front of the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011 where the League emergency session on Syria is to discuss the country’s failure to end bloodshed caused by government crackdowns on civil protests. Protesters called the Arab League to suspend the country’s membership. Arabic read ” step out, we need to build civilian modern country” (Amr Nabil)




[Image]Demonstrators with cooking pots and colanders on their heads stand in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011. Thousands of people formed a human chain around the Frankfurt bank towers protesting against the power of banks. German police say more than ten thousand people are protesting against the banks’ dominance in two of the country’s major cities.




[Image]A group of protesters prepare their signs before heading out into the ocean to hold an anti-APEC protest at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 as the summit is held in Oahu over the weekend. (Marco Garcia)




[Image]Demonstrators hold a ribbon reading “smash banks, redistribute wealth” in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011. Thousands of people formed a human chain with the ribbon around the Frankfurt bank towers to protest against the power of banks.Thousands of people formed a human chain around the Frankfurt bank towers protesting against the worldwide power of banks. German police say more than ten thousand people are protesting against the banks’ dominance in two of the country’s major cities.




[Image]Protestors march through downtown Lisbon during a demonstration by military personnel associations against austerity measures Saturday, Nov. 12 2011. The Portuguese government plans to introduce more pay cuts and steep tax hikes next year while the country is struggling to restore its fiscal health despite a euro78 billion ($106 billion) bailout earlier this year. Banner reads ” Amnesty for the military punished for offenses of opinion” refering to military who have been punished for taking part in protests.




[Image]Students march against government plans to reform higher education in Medellin, Colombia, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Thousands of students march in the country’s main cities despite President Juan Manuel Santos’ proposal to withdraw a reform bill on higher education. (Luis Benavides)




[Image]A UCLA student arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers after she attempted to escape after eleven student protesters sat in circle in middle of the Westwood and Wilshire boulevard intersection as part of a protest of bank practices and rising fees at public universities on November 9, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. The protest organized by ReFund California was one of several planned at universities around the state. Getty




[Image]Students demonstrate against an education reform bill in Bogota, on November 10, 2011. Thousands of students from more than 30 public universities took to the streets in Colombia to protest against proposed education reforms they fear will partially privatize higher education. The students have been on strike over the past month to protest a bill put forward by President Juan Manuel Santos that would require public universities to generate some of their own revenues. On Wednesday Santos offered to withdraw the draft and open a dialogue if the more than half a million students on strike lift their form of pressure. Getty




[Image]A demonstrator holds a banner against the ECB in Naples on November 11, 2011 during a rally called ‘Occupy Napoli’ (Occupy Naples), refering to the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, to protest against banks and international financial power. Getty




[Image]Hungarian and foreign activists and sympathizers of the ‘True Democracy Now’ group hold banners reading ‘Direct Democracy’ (R) and ‘Be part’, (L) as an elderly woman mouth’s is covered by a fake 1000 euro bill in front the central bank of Budapest on November 11, 2011 during a demonstration for a better and livable world and to protest against the political and economical system. Getty




[Image]A protester holds a sign reading “Neither Tremonti nor Monti” during a protest in front of the Ministry of Finance in Rome November 11, 2011. The package of austerity measures that were demanded by the European Union will now go to the Italian lower house, which is expected to approve it on Saturday. That vote will trigger the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The signs refer to Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti and former European Commissioner Mario Monti, who is tipped as the favourite to replace Berlusconi. Reuters




[Image]A Yemeni woman covers her mouth with her hand painted in the colours of the national flag during to a protest against the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sanaa, on November11, 2011. Forces loyal to Yemeni President Abdullah Saleh shelled the country’s second largest city Taez, killing nine people, among them two women and a child, a medic and witnesses said. Getty




[Image]A protester holding a banner camps outside the Banca d’Italia on November 11, 2011 in Venice, Italy. Protest in several Italian cities have been called by the Indignados, students, social centres and other organizations for today 11.11.11 to protest against financial insitutions and cuts proposed by the Government. Getty




[Image]Dalbir Kaur, sister of Indian national Sarabjit Singh on death row in Pakistan, second right, along with supporters of All India Youth Foundation takes an oath for securing his release in front of the India Gate war memorial at 11:11 am, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. A placard on left reads, “People’s Voice, Sarabjit.” (Gurinder Osan)















[Image]An Indonesian Muslim woman wears a Palestinian flag face mask during a solidarity protest for the Palestinian people in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. (Irwin Fedriansyah)




[Image]Demonstrators of a group “Occupy Rio” protest against Rio de Janeiro’s governor Sergio Cabral in downtown Rio de Janeiro November 10, 2011. The demonstration, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, seeks to address the corruption in the police and the problems with the health care system under the governance of Cabral. Cabral had originally organized a demonstration to rally against an oil reform amendment approved by the lower house of Congress. Reuters




[Image]Protesters from the communist-affiliated trade union PAME shout slogans during an anti-government protest in Athens November 10, 2011. Greece named former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos on Thursday to head a crisis government, ending a chaotic search for a leader to save the country from default, bankruptcy and an exit from the euro zone. Reuters




[Image]A demonstrator marches during a student protest against government plans to reform higher education at the main square in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Thousands of students marched in the country’s main cities despite a government proposal to withdraw a reform bill on higher education. (William Fernando Martinez)




[Image]People wave flags of Rio de Janeiro state during a protest against an oil reform amendment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Thousands of Brazilians are demonstrating against a plan that reduces revenue for oil-producing states and the federal government while increasing oil royalties for non-producing states. (Felipe Dana)




[Image]Christian fundamentalist holds a candle during a demonstration against Italian director Romeo Castellucci’s play “On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God” in Rennes, western France, Thursday Nov. 10, 2011. Christian fundamentalists gathered outside the cultural palace the Theatre National de Bretagne, (National Theatre of Brittany), to protest against the play which they claim is blasphemous. (David Vincent)




[Image]One of the students with peaceful attitude cleans the shield of a riot policemen that was stained with paint by more violent protesters, during a demonstration against an education reform bill at Bogota’s main square Plaza de Bolivar, on November 10, 2011. Thousands of students from more than 30 public universities took to the streets in Colombia to protest against proposed education reforms they fear will partially privatize higher education. The students have been on strike over the past month to protest a bill put forward by President Juan Manuel Santos that would require public universities to generate some of their own revenues. On Wednesday Santos offered to withdraw the draft and open a dialogue if the more than half a million students on strike lift their form of pressure. Getty




[Image]NOVEMBER 09: UCLA graduate student Cheryl Deutsch is arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers after she and 10 other student protesters sat in circle in middle of the Westwood and Wilshire boulevard intersection as part of a protest of bank practices and rising fees at public universities on November 9, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. The protest organized by ReFund California was one of several planned at universities around the state. Getty




[Image]A woman shouts out as police officers move into the crowd of demonstrators and push people back during a student anti-cuts protest in London, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. Thousands of students marched through central London on Wednesday to protest cuts to public spending and a big increase in university tuition fees. Police said there were “a number of arrests for public order offenses” Wednesday, but the march was largely peaceful as demonstrators made their way through the city center.




[Image]A protester cries out as students and campaigners march through the streets of London in a protest against higher tuition fees and government cuts, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (Sang Tan)




[Image]A lone protester stands outside the Scottsdale Plaza Resort to protest Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain who was addressing the media Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Cain said Tuesday that he would not drop his bid for the Republicans’ presidential nomination in the face of decade-old allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior. (Charlie Leight)




[Image]Two members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) who are covered from head to toe in green and blue bodypaint, as they hold a banner reading, “Save the Planet, Go Vegan,” at the Nanjing pedestrian street in Shanghai, China Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (Eugene Hoshiko)




[Image]Protestors from Occupy Philly participate in a ‘die in’ demonstration outside a PNC Bank branch in Philadelphia on Monday Nov. 7, 2011. The demonstration was conducted to draw attention to PNC Bank’s business practices. (Joseph Kaczmarek)




[Image]A Syrian woman, who lives in Cairo, reacts as others wave a giant Syrian revolution flag during an anti-Syrian President Bashar Assad demonstration at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprisings, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 to support protesters in Syria during the first day of Islamic Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice. (Amr Nabil)




[Image]An activist of the Ukrainian female rights organization “Femen” shows a placard demanding freedom for women, during a protest at the end of Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. (Pier Paolo Cito)




[Image]Yemeni girls hold a giant Yemeni flag, left, as Syrians hold their revolution flag, right, during a protest against Yemeni and Syrian regimes at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 to support protesters in Yemen and Syria during the first day of Islamic Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice. (Amr Nabil)




[Image]Amy Barnes protests as police move in to clear a downtown street during an Occupy Atlanta demonstration late Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 in Atlanta. (David Goldman)




[Image]In this Nov. 27, 2010 file photo, Susanna Camusso, leader of Italy’s largest labor confederation CGIL, arrives to deliver her speech during a demonstration to protest government policies regarding the economical crisis, in Rome. In an interview with The Associated Press Monday Nov. 7, 2011, Camusso is predicting 2012 will be a “terrifying” year for the economy even if beleaguered Premier Silvio Berlusconi leaves power soon.

































































































	


	



			
				


			

			
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[Image]In this Saturday, June 25, 2011 file photo, Yemeni women, wearing headbands that read in Arabic, “housewives”, attend a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. As demonstrations first swelled in Yemen, the regime distributed a photo of female activist Tawakkul Kamran in a protest test with a male colleague _ cutting out others around them _ to taint her for sinfully sitting alone with a man. Kamran’s Nobel peace prize win win draws attention to the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings.




[Image]On October 5, 2011, a jury in State Supreme Court in Queens foundthe woman, Barbara Sheehan, not guilty of second-degree murder charges in a case that had been viewed as a strenuous test of a battered-woman defense. Her son and daughter, the children of her slain husband, wept with joy. During the trial, the jury heard how Ms. Sheehan had been relentlessly abused by her husband, Raymond Sheehan, a former police sergeant, during their 24 years of marriage. (Uli Seit)




[Image]Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian peace activist and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s authoritarian regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday Oct. 7, 2011 for their work to secure women’s rights, which the prize committee described as fundamental to advancing world peace. Seen in this combo from left: Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. (AP Photo)




[Image]In this Tuesday, March 8, 2011 file photo, an Egyptian female protester, second right, argues with a man as hundreds of women marched to Cairo’s central Tahrir Square to celebrate International Women’s Day, Egypt. As demonstrations first swelled in Yemen, the regime distributed a photo of female activist Tawakkul Kamran in a protest test with a male colleague _ cutting out others around them _ to taint her for sinfully sitting alone with a man. Kamran’s Nobel peace win draws attention to the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings.




[Image]In this Friday, April 1, 2011 file photo, Egyptian women chant slogans as they attend a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. As demonstrations first swelled in Yemen, the regime distributed a photo of female activist Tawakkul Kamran in a protest test with a male colleague _ cutting out others around them _ to taint her for sinfully sitting alone with a man. Kamran’s Nobel peace win draws attention to the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings.




[Image]Ellen Rios, right, donates a vegan lasagna she made to a protestor at the “Occupy Wall Street” protests in Zuccotti Park, Friday, October 7, 2011, in New York. The three-week-old campout in a lower Manhattan plaza looks like a jumble of tattered sleeping bags, but teams of volunteers working on food, sanitation, health care and other needs keep the shifting population of protesters functioning like an impromptu city within the city. (Andrew Burton)




[Image]A woman helps unpack boxes of donations in the “Shipping and Receiving” section of Zuccotti Park, where “Occupy Wall Street” protests are taking place, in New York, Friday, October 7, 2011. The three-week-old campout in a lower Manhattan plaza looks like a jumble of tattered sleeping bags, but teams of volunteers working on food, sanitation, health care and other needs keep the shifting population of protesters functioning like an impromptu city within the city. (Andrew Burton)




[Image]In this Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 file photo, Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman, left, chants slogans along with other demonstrators holding banners during an anti-government protest in Sanaa, Yemen. Banner on right reads in Arabic, “33 years of authoritarian rule.” The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women’s rights. (Hani Mohammed)




[Image]Protesters hold carnations in their mouths in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, during the Romanian version of the Slut Walk march. The Slut Walk, a protest against harassment of women initiated by the outfits they wear or their behavior in public, was the first of it’s kind in Romania, a country where it is still quite widely believed that sexual aggression victims bear at least some responsibility for being targeted.(Vadim Ghirda)




[Image]Protesters including Jean Blackwood, left, of Columbia, Mo, and Crystal Elinski, center, of Portland, Ore., hold bundles representing killed children next to a “corporate America” flag, during a march past the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, part of Occupy DC activities in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin)




[Image]Occupy Boston protesters march through the Financial district in Boston, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. The group is part of a nationwide grassroots movement in support of the ongoing Wall Street protests in New York. (Elise Amendola)




[Image]One of several demonstrators is taken into custody by police after refusing to leave a Bank of America branch in downtown Los Angeles, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. The arrests Thursday afternoon came at the end of a demonstration that moved among high-rises housing the offices of banks and other financial institutions. (Chris Carlson)




[Image]Theresa Shoatz protests in a cross walk near City Hall Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, in Philadelphia. Organizers of the Occupy Philadelphia demonstration say Thursday’s protest is a stand against corporate greed. (Matt Rourke)




[Image]A woman holds up a placard with the image of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a protest outside the German embassy in the Greek capital Athens, on Thursday Oct. 6, 2011. The placard reads, “Europe will become German.” The small group of protesters said Germany must pay Greece reparations for its occupation of the country during WWII before Greece pays off its debts. (Kostas Tsironis)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street protesters march towards Zuccotti Park in New York’s Financial District, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Protests against Wall Street entered their 18th day Tuesday as demonstrators across the country show their anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed by marching on Federal Reserve banks and camping out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine. (Jason DeCrow)




[Image]Pakistani opposition lawmakers rally outside the parliament to condemn severe power shortages, corruption and lawlessness, Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct, 6. 2011. Dozens of opposition parliamentarians boycotted a session of parliament and held a sit-in protest at the gate of Presidential palace condemning severe power shortages, corruption and lawlessness in Pakistan. Placard on left reads “corrupt government, let poor live.”(B.K. Bangash)




[Image]An Occupy Wall Street protester is penned in by barricades and police after trying to march to Wall Street in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Protesters in suits and T-shirts with union slogans left work early to march with activists who have been camped out in Zuccotti Park for days. Some marchers brought along their children, hoisting them onto their shoulders as they walked down Broadway. (Seth Wenig)




[Image]Riot police detain a protester during minor clashes in Athens, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Greek civil servants walked off the job on a 24-hour strike Wednesday, paralyzing the public sector in a protest over ever-deeper austerity measures applied as the government struggles to avoid a catastrophic default. At least 16,000 protesters converged in the Greek capital, and a crowd of about 10,000 gathered in the northern city of Thessaloniki. (Thanassis Stavrakis)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street protesters march to join a union rally at Foley Square in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. The protests have gathered momentum and gained participants in recent days as news of mass arrests and a coordinated media campaign by the protestors have given rise to similar demonstrations around the country. (Seth Wenig)




[Image]Jordan McCarthy, 22, from Sandwich, N.H., awakes from under a makeshift shelter where she is camped out among participants in the Occupy Wall Street Protest at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 in New York. “We have allowed greed to be more important than humans,” said McCarthy who joined the camp a week ago.




[Image]Foley Square, New York, NY, October 5, 2011. (Cryptome)




[Image]Demonstrator Andrea Vitale cries during a protest to stop the eviction of Matias Gonzalez, a 52-year-old Spanish citizen who can’t pay his mortage, Barcelona Spain, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011. As in many European countries, Spanish mortgages are not like US-style ones in which defaulters can return the keys to the bank and walk away from their debt, albeit with their credit rating in ruins. Here, mortgage holders not only have to give the house back, but also pay off bank debt.




[Image]Occupy Wall Street protestor Alexi Morris is arrested along with at several others in the financial district’s Zucotti park, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, in New York. The arrests of 700 people on Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend fueled the anger of the protesters camping in a Manhattan park and sparked support elsewhere in the country as the campaign entered its third week. (John Minchillo)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street protestors play drums and sing songs in the financial district’s Zuccotti park Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011, in New York. The protests have gathered momentum and gained participants in recent days as news of mass arrests and a coordinated media campaign by the protestors have given rise to similar demonstrations around the country. (John Minchillo)




[Image]In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, anti-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters flash V-victory signs as a woman in the foreground displays her hands with the Arabic word reading: “leave”, during a demonstration against the Syrian regime, in Edlib province, Syria, on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters Friday as thousands rallied across the country to call for the downfall of President Bashar Assad.




[Image]Tibetan exiles hold placards at a protest in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. The protest was to express solidarity with two monks who self-immolated on Sept. 26 in Eastern Tibet and against alleged Chinese oppression. (Tsering Topgyal)















[Image]High school students chant slogans during a protest in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens, Thursday, Sept 29 2011. Weeks-long education protests have recently spread to state schools,with a growing number of building occupations around the country. Greece’s troubled Socialist government is facing a growing number of protests against austerity measures, aimed at securing continued bailout loan payment from eurozone countries and the IMF. (Kostas Tsironis)




[Image]Members of French aid group Medecins du Monde carrying a giant cotton bud and placards reading ” Free consultations”, demonstrate for an Universal Health Coverage, outside a meeting of the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers in Paris, Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. (Thibault Camus)




[Image]Activists hold a prayer vigil at Sule pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. The protesters said they demonstrated to honor persons killed and jailed during pro-democracy protests for years ago led by Buddhist monks. (Khin Maung Win)




[Image]Demonstrators march near the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) during their anti-nuclear power protest, in Tokyo, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. TEPCO’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami March 11, which caused the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. (Shizuo Kambayashi)




[Image]In this June 24, 2011 photo, Pakistani students rally against right-wing student union Jamiat at the Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan. Two months after the covert U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, posters emblazoned with images of the burning World Trade Center towers appeared at the prestigious university advertising a literary contest to glorify the slain al-Qaida chief. (K.M. Chaudary)




[Image]Women protest during a rally denouncing corruption, demanding better civil rights and demanding a new constitution, in Casablanca Sunday, April 24, 2011. Banners read, at left, “Freedom, equality and civil rights” and at right “Clause 19 of Constitution must go!” revering to King Mohammed VI’s power. (Abdeljalil Bounhar)




[Image]Women protest holding banners reading “the True Libya” and “Freedom for Libya” during a demonstration against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in the centre of Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. (Andres Kudacki)
































	


	



			
				


			

			
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[Image]Supporters of the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest take part in a mass meditation on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. The senior St. Paul’s Cathedral priest who welcomed anti-capitalist demonstrators to camp outside the London landmark resigned Thursday, saying he feared moves to evict the protesters could end in violence.




[Image]Young South Africans who brought their frustration over poverty and joblessness to the streets Thursday, responding to a call by Julius Malema, the tough-talking youth leader of the governing African National Congress, reach the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Thursday Oct. 27, 2011. Malema took the lead in the “economic freedom march” that left downtown Johannesburg by foot to the Stock Exchange, then on foot and by bus about 40 miles (60 kilometers) north to Pretoria, the seat of government.




[Image]Jackie Hayes of Binghamton, N.Y., speaks supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement rally at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Several speakers criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo for blocking a bill that would tax New Yorkers making over $1 million a year at a higher rate while cutting aid to schools, colleges and the poor. Cuomo, who was in New York City, had no immediate comment Thursday. (Hans Pennink)




[Image]Security guards detain an activist of the Ukrainian female rights organization “Femen”, during an action of nude protest in front of Kiev Zoo, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Kiev zoo is a place that Femen’s activists compared to a concentration camp for those with fur and feathers. Hundreds of animals died at the zoo in recent years due to malnutrition, lack of medical care and abuse, and some suspect that corruption is at the heart of the problem. Femen calls for the 100-year-old zoo to be closed.




[Image]South Korea protesters stage a rally to protest against a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States near the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. The ruling Grand National Party and the government have set Friday, Oct. 28, as the deadline for ratifying the FTA bill. The letters read: ” Block the FTA between South Korea and the United States.” (Ahn Young-joon)




[Image]Supporters of the Occupy London Stock Exchange movement hold protest placards against bankers betting on food prices in financial markets outside a branch of the Goldman Sachs banking firm on Fleet Street in London, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. A police officer, second left, stands guarding the front door and one of the demonstrators, second right, is wearing a mask representing Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. (Matt Dunham)




[Image]A female Yemeni protestor burns veils during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. The burning of the veil was not related to women’s rights or issues surrounding the Islamic veils – rather, the act of women burning their clothing is a symbolic Bedouin tribal gesture signifying an appeal for help to tribesmen, in this case to stop the attacks on women protesters. (Hani Mohammed)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street protesters continue to increase their makeshift shelter at Zuccotti Park, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 in New York. While some businesses and residents are losing patience with the protesters in Zuccotti Park, organizers say they are receiving and storing heavy duty winter supplies to protest throughout the winter. (Bebeto Matthews)




[Image]Anti-corporate protesters pose for pictures as they stand next to tents of their protest camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral, in central London, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. As authorities around the world swoop in to evict anti-corporate protesters, London’s protest camp has become a tourist attraction _ one that has shut down the landmark St. Paul’s Cathedral.




[Image]University students carry mock coffins that read in Spanish “Here rests a fundamental right,” left, and “Colombian education, 1867-2012,” right, during a protest in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011. Students are protesting education reforms planned by the government that propose private funding for public institutions. (Fernando Vergara)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street protesters huddle together after police use tear gas to disperse a large crowd that gathered at 14th Street and Broadway in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Many demonstrators were arrested. (Darryl Bush)




[Image]A protestor yells as police seal off Woodruff Park to arrest those refusing to leave after Mayor Kasim Reed revoked his executive order allowing the Occupy Atlanta protestors to camp out in Woodruff Park Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 in Atlanta. (David Goldman)




[Image]North Korean defectors and South Korean civic members hold banners during a rally for North Korean refugees who were repatriated by the Chinese government, in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. The protesters called for China not to send North Korean refugees back to their country, saying those refugees might get executed. About 30 protesters participated at a rally. (Lee Jin-man)




[Image]Police officers detain an opposition demonstrator during an unsanctioned rally on Triumfalnaya Square in downtown Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. Several dozens people have been detained at an opposition rally in central Moscow where they were protesting against the lack of alternatives in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. The posters, placed on a fence around a construction site, campaigns against violence to children by the national foundation to support children.




[Image]Swedish protester Rebecka Kullberg applies make-up beside a second protest campsite formed on Saturday by supporters of the Occupy London Stock Exchange group in Finsbury Square, London, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. The Occupy protests over economic inequality have spread from a single camp in New York City to cities across the United States, Europe and Asia since mid-September. (Matt Dunham)




[Image]Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, far left, faced off with Occupy Atlanta protesters during the mayor’s news conference at City Hall in Atlanta on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. A protester holds a paper that reads Occupy Wall St. goes global as the mayor leaves. (Curtis Compton)




[Image]An exile Tibetan woman cries out as she scuffles with Indian police outside the United Nations Information Center at a protest seeking U.N. intervention in the Tibet issue in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. The protest was held to express solidarity with the plight of people in Tibet who set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule. (Mustafa Quraishi)




[Image]Russian police officers detain a protester as she shouts anti-government slogans during an unsanctioned pro-democracy rally in front of Central Election commission office in downtown Moscow, Russia, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (Ivan Sekretarev)




[Image]President of Kashmir’s main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti, center, addresses supporters during a protest in Srinagar, India, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Indian police in Srinagar on Monday stopped a protest march led by Mufti against the Jammu Kashmir state government’s alleged mass corruption. (Mukhtar Khan)




[Image]Supporters of Sri Lanka’s Marxist Party, known as Peoples Liberation Front, shout slogans during a protest against the rising cost of living in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (Eranga Jayawardena)




[Image]Paramedics carry a wounded woman to an ambulance at Athens’ main Syntagma Square, during violent demonstrations, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. A protester died during an anti-austerity demonstration that turned violent in the Greek capital Thursday, authorities said, hours before lawmakers were to vote on deeply unpopular new cutbacks demanded by creditors to keep Greece afloat. (Lefteris Pitarakis)




[Image]Two police officers hold a woman during clashes in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons as protesters in Rome turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot Saturday, smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles. The protest in the Italian capital was part of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations against capitalism and austerity measures that went global Saturday, leading to dozens of marches and protests worldwide.




[Image]Dr. Angelina Shigeura, 31, left, and Dr. Amit Patel, 29, right, chant during a demonstration by doctors and medical professionals at the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in New York. Doctors from the National Health Program and National Physicians Alliance have merged with the health care demonstrators within the Occupy Wall Street protests to form a group under the banner of “Healthcare for the 99%” and speak out against corporate greed in the medical industry. (John Minchillo)




[Image]Protesters march for a healthier and pollutant free environment during a demonstration called by the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA), a Non-Government Organisation (NGO), in Durban on October 22, 2011. The protest initiated by the SDCEA comes after a fire broke out at the Engen Oil Refinery on October 11 and around one hundred school children have been hospitalised for smoke and toxic fume inhalation. Durban will host the 17 th Conference of Parties (COP) International Climate Change Conference in Durban in December 2011. Getty




[Image]Demonstrators cut a barbed wire fence as they march during a protest against the construction of a high-speed train line, known as TAV, which will link Turin in northern Italy to Lyon in France, near Chiomonte, north of Turin October 23, 2011. Reuters




[Image]Protesters shout as they take part in the ProAlt demonstration at the Old Town Square in Prague on October 22, 2011, to protest against the government planned budget cuts and social reforms. Over one thousand protesters, including Communist Union of Youth, trade unionists, members of organisations for people with disabilities and Czech Roma organisations, demonstrated in Prague. Getty















[Image]‘Occupy Melbourne’ demonstrators protest on October 22, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia. Protesters and riot police clashed in Melbourne again today after police, acting on a Melbourne City Council eviction order, attempted to break up the crowd of hundreds that had been positioned in City Square for a week. Getty




[Image]Demonstrators chant slogans against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during an anti-government demonstration in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Tens of thousands of Hungarians gathered to protest against Orban’s government at the 55th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. (Bela Szandelszky)




[Image]Hungarian women listen to a speech during a demonstration attended by tens of thousands of people in Budapest on October 23, 2011 to protest against what they call the anti-democratic regime of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, on the anniversary of the 1956 revolution. Hungary’s uprising erupted on October 23, 1956 and was crushed by Soviet tanks on November 4, sealing the country’s fate as a satellite state of Moscow until the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Getty




[Image]Kurdish protesters opposed to President Bashar Assad, shout slogans as they demonstrate against the Syrian regime, during a sit-in in front of the Syrian embassy, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. The banner at left in Arabic reads: “down with the present gang. We want a civil state.” (Bilal Hussein)




[Image]A protester gets arrested during an Occupy Chicago march and protest in Grant Park in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Demonstrators of the anti-Wall Street group Occupy Chicago stood their ground in the park and defied police orders to clear the area, prompting police to make more than a dozen arrests early Sunday. (Paul Beaty)




[Image]Protesters are arrested during an Occupy Chicago march and protest at Grant Park in Chicago Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Demonstrators of the anti-Wall Street group Occupy Chicago stood their ground in the park and defied police orders to clear the area, prompting police to make more than a dozen arrests early Sunday. (Paul Beaty)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street protestors hold a meeting to discuss the use of funds for cleaning supplies proceeding a proposed cleanup of their camp in Zuccotti Park, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in New York. The protests continue to draw large crowds and fresh participants as similar demonstrations are occuring around the world. (John Minchillo)




[Image]Demonstrators associated with the Occupy Wall Street march past New York City police officers towards a rally against police brutality at Union Square, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011 in New York. (Mary Altaffer)




[Image]Activists vote during a meeting held amid tents in front of St Paul’s Cathedral in London October 22, 2011. London’s landmark St Paul’s Cathedral closed its doors on Friday because of hazards posed by hundreds of protesters encamped in front of it in a demonstration inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement. Reuters




[Image]Iranian women gather for a protest in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement outside the Swiss embassy which handles US interests in Tehran on October 22, 2011. Getty




[Image]A protestor looks from her tent during an occupation protest in Finsbury Square in the city of London on October 22, 2011. Saint Paul’s Cathedral remains closed for the first time in modern history because of anti-capitalist demonstrators camping outside the London landmark. More than 200 activists inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement have taken over the churchyard in front of the cathedral in the city’s financial district since last October 15 to protest against corporate greed and state cutbacks. Getty




[Image]Demonstrators associated with the Occupy Wall Street march through the streets of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan during a rally against police brutality on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. The demonstration marked Saturday’s observance of the “National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.” AP




[Image]People take a picture of themselves as a souvenir at the location where Occupy Wall Street members are resting at Zuccotti park in New York October 22, 2011. Reuters




[Image]Protestors and members of Occupy Wall Street shout slogans next to NYPD officers, during an annual demonstration calling for a stop to police brutality in New York October 22, 2011. Reuters




[Image]The Council on American Islamic Relations New York Chapter (CAIR-NY) holds Friday prayers with Demonstrators with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ continue their protest at Zuccotti Park in New York on October 21, 2011. The encampment in the financial district of New York City is now in its second month. The demonstrators are protesting bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment. Getty




[Image]A lady meditates on the outer wall of Zuccotti Park at the Occupy Wall Street Encampment in New York October 21, 2011. Reuters




[Image]Demonstrators with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ continue their protest at Zuccotti Park in New York on October 21, 2011. The encampment in the financial district of New York City is now in its second month. The demonstrators are protesting bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment. Getty




[Image]Swiss Copts demonstrate against violence and injustice directed against their community in Egypt at the Place des Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. (Martial Trezzini)




[Image]Demonstrators with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ continue their protest at Zuccotti Park in New York on October 21, 2011. The encampment in the financial district of New York City is now in its second month. The demonstrators are protesting bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment. Getty




[Image]A woman sits outside the closed doors of St Paul’s Cathedral in the city of London on October 21, 2011. St Paul’s Cathedral said Friday it was closing its doors to the public for the first time in modern history because of anti-capitalist demonstrators camping outside the London landmark. More than 200 activists inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement have taken over the churchyard in front of the cathedral in the city’s financial district since last Saturday to protest against corporate greed and state cutbacks. Getty




[Image]Margie Levinthal holds a sign during a march from City Hall to the Wharton School of Business at Pennsylvania University Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 in Philadelphia. The demonstration at City Hall is one of many being held across the country in conjunction with the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York. AP




[Image]Protesters display placards during a rally at the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila, Philippines Friday Oct. 21, 2011 in support of the new wave of protests around the globe known as “Occupy Wall Street.” The protesters singled out the country’s three big oil companies as “greedy for profit” as they raised anew this week the pump prices of gasoline and other oil products. (Bullit Marquez)




[Image]Marylou Wagner, left, and her grandchildren, Anthony Evenson, second from left, Phoebe Wagner, and Caitlin Wiesenborn, right, all from Fort Plain, N.Y. , demonstrate while supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement as protesters set up an encampment in Albany, N.Y. , Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. AP















[Image]Demonstrators with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ continue their protest at Zuccotti Park in New York on October 20, 2011. The encampment in the financial district of New York City is now in its second month. The demonstrators are protesting bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment. Getty




[Image]Authorities, from left, front, Chile’s Education Minister Felipe Bulnes, Santiago University Rector Juan Manuel Zolezzi, and Chile’s Senator Ena Anglein von Baer, fourth from left, looks on as protesters carrying a banner that reads in Spanish “Plebiscite now,” stand on a table during a protest at the Chilean Senator headquarters in Santiago, Chile, Thursday Oct. 20, 2011. Students and other protesters interrupted a Senate committee meeting to demand a popular referendum on how to resolve Chile’s social problems, especially education. They left the building after receiving a promise from opposition lawmakers to present a proposal to hold a plebiscite.(Luis Hidalgo)




[Image]A student voluntarily leaves the Senate headquarters seized earlier by dozens of students in Santiago, Chile, Thursday Oct. 20, 2011. Students and other protesters interrupted a Senate committee meeting to demand a popular referendum on how to resolve Chile’s social problems, especially education. They left the building after receiving a promise from opposition lawmakers to present a proposal to hold a plebiscite.(Luis Hidalgo)




[Image]A Tibetan exile has her face covered with a Tibetan flag as she sits after a march to express solidarity with the plight of the people in Tibet, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama on Wednesday fasted and led prayers in honor of nine Tibetans who set themselves on fire in apparent protest against China’s tight grip over Buddhist practices in Tibet. (Tsering Topgyal)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street participants carry on their occupation of Zuccotti Park near Wall Street in New York, October 18, 2011. Getty




[Image]A woman holds a sign outside of the Occupy Boston encampment as protester walks by with a box on his head in Boston, Massachusetts October 18, 2011. Occupy Boston is an extension of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City. Reuters




[Image]A protester takes part in an Occupy Phoenix demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona October 17, 2011. Occupy Phoenix is part of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York last month with a few people and expanded to protest marches and camps across the US and abroad. Reuters




[Image]In an Oct. 9, 2011 photo, Diane McEachern sits with her dogs Mr. Snickers, left, Seabiscuit, and Ruffian, right, on the tundra near Bethel, Alaska. McEachern wanted to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests so she gathered her dogs, bundled up and went out to the tundra with a homemade sign that read “Occupy the Tundra.” The photo was posted on the Occupy Wall Street Facebook page and has since been shared thousands of times. AP




[Image]Protesting farmers and their supporters raise their clenched fists as they shout slogans during a rally in front of the Supreme Court Tuesday Oct. 18, 2011 in Manila, Philippines. The farmers called on to occupy the Supreme Court similar to the protest dubbed “Occupy Wall Street” to force them to act on their cases on the distribution of lands including Hacienda Luisita which is owned by the family of President Benigno Aquino III. AP




[Image]Students from the United Community daycare center of Brooklyn color in Zuccotti Park where Occupy Wall Street campaign demonstrators have been stationed near Wall Street in New York October 17, 2011. Reuters




[Image]A protestor hops in her sleeping bag as she camps outside St Paul’s Cathedral on October 17, 2011, in London’s financial district, during a third day of demonstrations against corporate greed and state spending cutbacks. The London encampment began on Saturday following a demonstration by about 2,000-3,000 people, as part of Europe-wide anti-capitalist protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement born in New York in September. Getty




[Image]Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against the government and banks in Puerta del Sol square in solidarity action for the worldwide protest dubbed “Occupy the City” in Madrid on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. The organizers of the Occupy Wall Street announced on their website that protesters will demonstrate in concert over 951 cities in 82 countries. (Arturo Rodriguez)




[Image]Protestors march near Toronto’s financial district on Saturday Oct. 15, 2011. The demonstration is one of many being held across the country recently in support of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York. (Chris Young)




[Image]A protestor blows her whistle during a demonstration in Barcelona Saturday Oct. 15, 2011. Demonstrators in cities all over the world are protesting against corporate power and the banking system. (Emilio Morenatti)




[Image]Occupy Wall Street protestors prepare for a day of demonstrations throughout Manhattan by having their hair cut in Zuccotti Park, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, in New York. As many as 1,000 protesters were marching Saturday morning to a Chase bank branch in the financial district, banging drums, blowing horns and carrying signs decrying corporate greed. Other demonstrations are planned around the city all day Saturday. (John Minchillo)










	


	



			
				


			

			
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[Image]A demonstrator sits holding a sign during a protest against bullfighting in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. Peru hosts the oldest bullring in the Americas, the Plaza de Acho, inaugurated in 1766 under the ruling of Viceroy Manuel de Amat y Juniet, where every year bullfighters compete for the renown ‘Escapulario de Oro’ or ‘Golden Scapular’, one of the most important bullfighting trophies worldwide. (Karel Navarro)[Image]




[Image]Iranian opposition members hold an old Iranian flag as they protest against the regime in their country, asking the release of jailed dissidents and union members, in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011.(Burhan Ozbilici)




[Image]An activist supporting the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) stands in front of banners in support of rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila during a protest in New Delhi on November 5, 2011. Sharmila has been on a 10-year hunger strike demanding the Indian government to repeal the AFSPA. Getty




[Image]More than 100 police moved on Occupy Sydney protesters at Martin Place October 23, 2011, resulting in the arrest of 40 people. Damian Baker[Image]




[Image]Occupy Wall Street demonstrator Mimi Ho, right, gestures as she carries her daughter Juniper, 1, after she withdrew her savings from a Wells Fargo Bank as part of the protest in downtown Oakland, Calif. , Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. At left is Kimi Lee, who also withdrew her savings. Saturday is Bank Transfer Day for supporters to take their money out of major banks and put their money into smaller banks. AP




[Image]Students stage a protest in front of the government house in Riga November 4, 2011. Thousands of students staged the protest against education budget cuts the Latvian government is planning for 2012, local media reported. Reuters




[Image]Albanian citizens protest in front of the parliament building to stop the passing of a law that will allow the import of waste into the country, in Tirana November 3, 2011. The Albanian government insists that the controversial bill will only allow the import of a limited list of non-toxic waste for recycling purposes, but environmental activists insist that bill would turn Albania into a backyard recycling bin of Europe?s richer countries. A similar attempt to pass a law that would allow import of waste was thwarted in 2004 due to strong public opposition. Reuters




[Image]University students with their necks painted protest at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday Nov. 3, 2011. Their signs read in Spanish “We have the right to be outraged,” left, and “Excellent education and for all!!” Students are protesting education reforms planned by the government that propose private funding for public institutions. (Fernando Vergara)




[Image]Protesters chant slogans in front of the Greek Parliament during an anti-austerity protest in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 3 2011. Greece’s prime minister abandoned his explosive plan to put a European rescue deal to popular vote and opened emergency talks Thursday with his opponents, demanding their support in parliament to pass the hard-fought agreement into law. (Kostas Tsironis)




[Image]Anti-government protesters pass through their makeshift barricades Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, during a demonstration in the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain. Men, women and children waved national flags, chanted against the regime and called for prisoners to be freed. Such barricades are used in restive Shiite areas nationwide to slow riot police jeeps who often arrive to disperse the daily demonstrations. (Hasan Jamali)




[Image]Aileen Mioko Smith, center, executive director of pro-sustainable energy NGO group Green Action, and supporters shout anti-nuclear slogans by a yarn ball made by women in Fukushima as they stage a sit-in demonstration, opposing the government’s nuclear energy policy in front of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. (Shuji Kajiyama)




[Image]An exile Tibetan woman tries to immolate herself as others from the community try to stop her, during a protest against China and to honor Tibetans who have immolated themselves since March in a restive Tibetan area of western China, in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Protesters urged G20 leaders to raise the issue of rights violation and crackdown on monasteries in Tibet. (Niranjan Shrestha)




[Image]Occupy Chicago protesters march in downtown Chicago, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Protesters are gathering in Chicago’s financial district to march in solidarity with other anti-Wall Street protesters nationwide for an Iraq War veteran who was injured in clashes between protesters and police in California. (Nam Y. Huh)




[Image]An Occupy Oakland protester wears makeup in observance of the traditional Mexican holiday “Day of the Dead,” Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland’s citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious action called by Occupy protesters a day after police forcibly removed their City Hall encampment last week, seeks to shut down the Port of Oakland. (Ben Margot)




[Image]A woman holds her child during a protest in Ciudad Juarez November 1, 2011. Police arrested around 25 protesters as they were trying to put up crosses in a public area in representation of the thousands of victims of the drug war. Reuters




[Image]In this photograph taken by AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Protestors from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation deliver a bag full of petitions requesting lower AIDS drug pricing to Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, NJ on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (Charles Sykes)















[Image]An anti-G20 demonstrator poses on a fake beach during a photobooth session as she takes part in a protest against globalisation in Nice, southeastern France, November 2, 2011. G20 leaders will gather in Cannes for the final summit of France’s presidency on November 3 and 4. Reuters




[Image]A woman involved in the clean-up operation after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster shouts slogans during a protest in front of riot police at Cabinet in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. The veterans were demanding the right to keep the social benefits given to them after the clean-up. (Efrem Lukatsky)




[Image]Indian police officers detain Members of the Tibetan Youth Congress during a protest, on the eve of G20 summit in France , outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on November 2, 2011. The protesters flew Tibetan flags,and burned Chinese flags to express their opposition to China’s policies in Tibet, and to call for support for their movement from leaders of the G20. Getty




[Image]Protester Alexis Marvel, of Boston, front, holds an American flag and shouts slogans while joining with members of the Occupy Boston movement, students from area colleges, and union workers as they march through downtown Boston, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. The march was held to protest the nations growing student debt burden. AP




[Image]Demonstrators shout slogans in front of riot police on November 2, 2011 during a protest as the Ukrainian cabinet was meeting in Kiev. Ukrainian veterans of the clean-up from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster are demonstrating against planned benefit cuts. In September, lawmakers gave initial approval to a bill cutting back benefits paid to those who helped clean up the April 1986 nuclear disaster and those who still live on the affected lands. Getty




[Image]Tibetan nationals demonstrate to protest against China’s President Hu Jintao visit to France for Cannes’ G20 meeting, on November 2, 2011 in Paris. Getty




[Image]Young unemployed graduates protest against unemployment and the cost of living, in front of the Moroccan Parliament in Rabat November 2, 2011. Reuters




[Image]Anti-Wall Street protesters demonstrate in front of a closed bank in Oakland, California, November 2, 2011. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Oakland at the start of what they called a general strike to protest economic conditions and police brutality in the city. Reuters




[Image]Members of the New York City chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and dozens of other uniformed veterans known as ‘Veterans of the 99%’ march from Vietnam Veterans Plaza to Zucotti Park where the Occupy Wall Street movement is centered on November 2, 2011 in New York City. The veterans groups, which feature current and former members of the United States military, marched in support of Occupy Wall Street and to pay homage to Scott Olsen, a former Marine and Iraq War vet who sustained a skull fracture after he was injured by police at an Occupy Oakland protest. Getty




[Image]A demonstrator tries to cross a police line during a protest against the Islamist Ennahda movement in Tunis November 2, 2011. The moderate Islamist party Ennahda, which advocates democracy and pledges not to impose religious bans on the secularist minority here, won 40 percent of the vote in the October 23 election for a constituent assembly. Reuters




[Image]A woman holds a placard on November 1, 2011 during a demonstration in the French city of Nice, two days ahead of the G20 summit to be held in Cannes on November 3 and 4. Thousands of anti-capitalists are to march through the streets of Nice today to protest corporate greed ahead of the G20 summit, echoing protests worldwide. The placard reads : ‘Life not money’. Getty




[Image]In this Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011 file photo, a female protestor, center, flashes the victory sign during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Women are fighting to keep a voice for their rights sounding out amid the tumult of Yemen’s landmark revolt. The main goal of the protests by millions around the country, day in and day out since February, is the ouster of President Saleh.










	


	



			
				


			

			
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[Image]Ellinda McKinney offers her message to police during the Occupy Denver protest, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 in Denver. Occupy Denver protesters and law enforcement officers faced off on the steps of the state Capitol and Civic Center after protesters marched through downtown Denver for the fourth week in a row. (Craig F. Walker)




[Image]A woman performs as a widow during a protest against violence in Mexico City on October 28, 2011. More than 41,000 people have been killed in rising drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers and federal police to take on organized crime. Getty




[Image]Demonstrators march towards the Treasury Department and the White House in Washington on October 29, 2011 during a protest organized by the Occupy DC movement to call for increased taxes on the rich, a so-called ‘Robin Hood tax.’ Getty




[Image]Israelis protest against the high costs of living in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. According to police estimates over 30,000 participated in the Tel Aviv protest and thousands of others protested in Jerusalem on Saturday. A wave of social protests swept the country this summer as Israelis held mass protests to protest a wide range of social issues, especially high housing costs. (Maya Hasson)




[Image]A protester of the Occupy Berlin movement drinks champagne during a protest demonstration against the finance system in central Berlin, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. (Markus Schreiber)




[Image]A demonstrator is seen during a protest organized by the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS), on October 29, 2011 in Bern. More than 1000 persons attend the demonstration. The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS), a conservative Muslim group was under criticism after chosen a symbol reminiscent of the Jewish Star of David with the word ‘Muslim’ framed by a yellow star. Getty




[Image]A woman holds a crucifix and a rosary as she demonstrates among around one thousand people called by ‘Civitas’ association, close to Christian fundamentalists on October 29, 2011 in Paris to protest against the play ‘Sur le concept du visage du fils de Dieu’ (On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God) by Italian Romeo Castellucci which is performed at the Paris Theatre de la Ville from October 20 to 30. Every evening, protesters demonstrate in front of the building to denounce the’ of the play which they found insulting. Getty




[Image]Occupy Nashville protesters, from the left, Megan Riges, Lauren Plummer and Lindsey Krinks, celebrate Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, after they were released by police after being arrested overnight on Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville, Tenn. Twenty-nine Wall Street protesters in Nashville have been issued misdemeanor citations for criminal trespassing after being arrested by state troopers overnight. (John Partipilo)




[Image]Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street Movement are seen at the Tennessee Capitol, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Tennessee’s safety commissioner says Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s office approved a pre-dawn roundup of Wall Street protesters from the state Capitol grounds. Twenty-nine people were arrested, but a night judge refused to sign warrants because the policy had only been in effect since the previous afternoon. (Erik Schelzig)




[Image]A dressed woman attends a protest in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011. The protest was against education reforms planned by the government that propose private funding for public institutions. (Fernando Vergara)




[Image]Activists of Femen, a Ukrainian women movement, wearing masks representing the slaughtered animals, shout slogans and hold placards reading ‘Zoomorgue’, ‘Slaughten house’, ‘Zooghetto’ as they stage a topless protest on a roof at the entrance of the zoo in Kiev on October 27, 2011. They rally against, as they say, the intolerable living conditions for animals in the zoo. Every year the Zoo is claiming the lives of hundreds of rare and exotic animals, that die a horrific death of hunger, cold or disease, as they report to AFP. The FEMEN movement demands that the Ukrainian authorities close the Kievs ZooMorgue as they call it. Getty




[Image]Supporters of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) attend a rally against Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in Lahore on October 28, 2011. More than 30,000 supporters of Pakistan’s main opposition party took to the streets in a protest rally on October 28, burning an effigy of President Asif Ali Zardari and demanding that he quit. The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) called the rally in Lahore to exploit talk of early elections in its political heartland, where it controls the Punjab provincial government despite being in opposition at national level. Getty




[Image]Supporters of Pakistani politician Imran Khan and chief of Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) party, carry placards as they march during protest rally in Islamabad on October 28, 2011 against US drone attacks in Pakistani tribal region. Khan staged a rally along with tribal elders in Islamabad against the continued US drone attacks in tribal areas which they said were killing hundreds of innocent people. Nearly 60 US drone strikes have been reported in Pakistan so far this year, dozens of them since Navy SEALs killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the garrison city of Abbottabad, close to the capital Islamabad, on May 2. Getty




[Image]Protesters throw mud at a caricature of President Benigno Aquino III during a protest Friday Oct. 28, 2011 in Manila, Philippines against the President’s alleged continued support for big corporations including the big three oil companies in the country. The protest, part of the nationwide “Women’s Day of Protest,” was held following another round of oil price hike implemented late last week. (Bullit Marquez)




[Image]Relatives of missing Kashmiri youth participate in a protest demonstration organized by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) in Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. According to APDP some 8,000-10,000 people have gone missing since the beginning of the Kashmir conflict in 1989, after being arrested by Indian security forces and other security agencies. (Dar Yasin)




[Image]Anti-austerity protesters shout slogans before a scheduled military parade in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Thousands of anti-austerity protesters in the city forced the cancellation of Friday’s annual military parade commemorating Greece’s entry into World War II. The demonstrators heckled Greek President Karolos Papoulias and other attending officials, calling Papoulias a traitor. (Nikolas Giakoumidis)




[Image]Campaigners on the ‘Occupy London Stock Exchange’ protest encampment outside St Paul’s Cathedral on October 28, 2011 in London, England. St Paul’s Cathedral is due to reopen after being closed due to the adjacent ‘Occupy London Stock Exchange’ protest against the global financial system which has been in place for almost two weeks. Getty















[Image]Filipino Muslims hold their Friday prayers near the Presidential Palace during a “Prayer-for-Peace” rally Friday Oct. 28, 2011 in Manila, Philippines. The prayer protest was held to call for peace following the military’s launching of air strikes and military operations after one of the worst clashes in three years with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) this month killed 26 soldiers, three policemen and an undetermined number of Muslim rebels. Close to 30,000 civilians have been displaced in the ongoing operation, officials said. AP




[Image]A man consoles a distressed woman as she weeps at a protest during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Australia, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Queen Elizabeth II opened CHOGM Friday with more than 50 commonwealth nations’ leaders attending the three-day forum to discuss global and Commonwealth issues and collective policies and initiatives. AP




[Image]Members of the Mexican Huichole community take part in a protest against Canadian mining projects in Mexico City on October 27, 2011. Huicholes from Durango, Nayarit and Jalisco marched along Reforma avenue towards the presidential palace to demand the end of the Canadian exploitation of silver in Cerro del Quemado, San Luis Potosi, arguing it affects nature and their sacred path. Getty




[Image]A member of the Mexican Huichole community takes part in a protest against Canadian mining projects in Mexico City on October 27, 2011. Huicholes from Durango, Nayarit and Jalisco marched along Reforma avenue towards the presidential palace to demand the end of the Canadian exploitation of silver in Cerro del Quemado, San Luis Potosi, arguing it affects nature and their sacred path. Getty




[Image]A resident speaks with journalists as they protest outside the refinery compound of Italian oil company Eni at the town of Tazarka, about 70 km (43.5 miles) south-east of capital Tunis October 27, 2011. The protesters say that the refinery owners have not honoured their commitments to provide the local community with jobs and investments in infrastructure. Message written in Arabic reads “protest”. Reuters




[Image]People march during a protest in Zhili town, Huzhou city, Zhejiang province October 27, 2011. Hundreds of people have clashed with police and smashed public property in China’s eastern Zhejiang province after a dispute between tax authorities and a local shop owner snowballed into protests, a government-run news site said. Reuters




[Image]People watch as riot police walk along the central square during a protest in Zhili town, Huzhou city, Zhejiang province October 27, 2011. Hundreds of people have clashed with police and smashed public property in China’s eastern Zhejiang province after a dispute between tax authorities and a local shop owner snowballed into protests, a government-run news site said. Reuters




[Image]A Christian activist holds a placard reading “No fraternity without respect of the other” as she prays during a demonstration, in Paris, Thursday Oct. 27, 2011, in front of the Theatre de la ville, where the Italian director Romeo Castellucci’s play “On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God” is being performed. Christian fundamentalists protest against the play featuring the face of Christ drizzled with fake excrement. (Thibault Camus)




[Image]About 1300 hundred people attend a candlelight vigil for Scott Olsen on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. During an Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night, a projectile apparently fired by police struck the Iraq veteran in the head leaving him in critical condition with a fractured skull. (Noah Berger)




[Image]Participants of the Occupy Wall Street movement, right, talk to pedestrians trying to walk past their tent at the encampment at Zuccotti Park, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011 in New York. The protests, which started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators near Wall Street, as grown into a nationwide and international movement. (Mary Altaffer)




[Image]Demonstrators supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement march in the hallways during a rally inside the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Several speakers criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo for blocking a bill that would tax New Yorkers making over $1 million a year at a higher rate while cutting aid to schools, colleges and the poor. Cuomo, who was in New York City, had no immediate comment Thursday. (Hans Pennink)




[Image]Police officers look at the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp as they stand on the steps outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. St. Paul’s Cathedral says it will reopen Friday, a week after is shut its doors because of an anti-capitalist protest camp outside. It will reopen to tourists on Saturday. Protesters have been camped outside the building since Oct. 15. Days later, cathedral officials shut the building to the public.




[Image]Demonstrators hold cutouts representing women during a protest in front of the National Assembly building during a protest to demand the return of the therapeutic abortion law, in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011. The therapeutic abortion law, which allows the termination of a pregnancy to save a mother’s life, was repealed by the legislature in 2006, handing down eight-year prison sentences to those who terminated risky pregnancies. (Esteban Felix)




[Image]In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 file photo demonstrators burn copies of emergency tax notices during a protest by the Communist-backed labor union. Groups of lawyers, trade unions and campaigners have tried to derail government efforts to collect new taxes, or to suspend tens of thousands of civil servants on partial pay. State buildings have been occupied, municipalities have stalled in delivering emergency notices ordering strikers back to work.




[Image]Two activists of the Femen Movement from Ukraine protest during a press conference ‘Euro 2012: Corruption and Prostitution’ organised in the Culture Center Nowy Wspanialy Swiat, in Warsaw, Poland, on September 15, 2011. The members of the Femen Movement were presented during the conference as Blyadek and Blyadko – alternative mascots of Euro 2012, who like sex, football and alcohol. FEMEN activists want to demostrate the ‘dark side’ of Ukraine’s preparation for Euro 2012 and expose the corrupt schemes associated with the football championships. Getty