Nearly 2 million Britons have signed a petition calling on President Trump鈥檚 official state visit to be canceled. On February 20, thousands of protesters gathered outside Parliament in London as British lawmakers debated whether to deny Trump a formal state visit. Democracy Now! spoke to Asad Rehman of Friends of the Earth International. He spoke at the protest in London on February 20. The video and transcript are below.
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Thousands in the streets across US for Weekend of Action
The resistance is taking many forms in the United States, ,聽with some constituents聽聽to demand accountability and others taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration and its draconian policies.聽
"McDonald's workers clearly aren't lovin' Trump's immigration policies,"聽聽"On Thursday, McDonald's restaurants across the United States, along with a聽, closed their doors as part of a nationwide '
Tens of thousands of Mexicans protested in more than 20 cities on February 12 against US President Donald Trump. Marchers hit back at Trump鈥檚 anti-Mexican rhetoric and his depictions of them as 鈥渞apists鈥 and 鈥渃riminals鈥, demanding 鈥渢he respecting of Mexico鈥.
鈥淢exico must be respected, Mr Trump,鈥 said a giant banner carried by protesters in Mexico City, who waved a sea of red, white and green Mexican flags as they marched down the capital鈥檚 main avenue.
Huge pro-choice counter-protests overwhelm 'Defund Planned Parenthood' actions
Anti-abortion groups called for 'Defund Planned Parenthood' demonstrations at more than 200 Planned Parenthood locations throughout the United States on February 11聽to pressure President Donald Trump to strip the women's health provider of federal funding.
A Lakota prophecy tells of a mythic Black Snake that will move underground and bring destruction to the Earth. The 鈥渟eventh sign鈥 in Hopi prophecy involves the ocean turning black and bringing death to many sea-dwelling creatures.
It does not take an over-active imagination to make a connection between these images and oil pipelines and spills.
English singer unveiled a haunting cover of 's 2007 song along with a stark video of her performance of the track at the against Donald Trump in London on January 21,
Momentum for general strike call against Trump grows
鈥淎ctivists are calling for people to stop working and buying things for a day to bring down Donald Trump,鈥 on February 2. A nation-wide general strike has been called for February 17 to protest the Trump administration.
Ecuadorean said on January 30 that Latin America needed to respond with a strong, united front against the anti-immigration measures of US President Donald Trump, T.
Since the January 21 inauguration of US President Donald Trump, Israel has approved the construction of 8000 new homes for Jewish Israeli settlers in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in 1967. This represents a significant rise in the rate of illegal settlement building.
There has also been a rise in the rate of demolitions of Palestinian homes and land confiscations, both in the territories occupied in 1967 and in those that have been within the Israeli state since 1948.
In 2010 President聽Obama聽directed聽the CIA聽to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later聽with a September 2011 drone strike.
Condemning Donald Trump鈥檚 cruel bigotry is easy 鈥 well, OK, maybe not for the Australian government, but for actual human beings with functioning consciences.
Then again, our country is so screwed up, our government鈥檚 response to the rise of the most extreme racist authoritarian president in US history is to ask him if he鈥檚 still ok to take desperate asylum seekers we won鈥檛 help, coz we are sick of the expense of torturing them in isolated hellholes.
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