Demonstrations

Tyler Kingkade

College Students Plan U.S. Walkout On Thursday

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.01.2012

NEW YORK -- Thousands of U.S. college students will walk out of class Thursday in a coordinated day of protest against what may be another year of sig...

Soundtrack for Global Protest: Beethoven Calls the Tune

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.22.2012

Greg Mitchell

Yes, many know that the "Ode to Joy" has been transformed into the anthem of the European Union. Or that Leonard Bernstein assembled a massive orchestra to perform the Ninth in Berlin to mark the shattering of the Berlin Wall, with "Ode to Joy" changed to "Ode to Freedom."

Ethiopian Israelis Protest for Freedom

Anav Silverman | Posted 03.24.2012

Anav Silverman

By coming to Israel, the Ethiopian Jewish community was able to realize their ancient religious traditions which centered around the land of Israel and their return to the holy land.

The Girls of Egypt Are Here

Birute Regine | Posted 03.17.2012

Birute Regine

It was exciting to finally see outrage in thousands of Egyptian women who took to the streets on January 10 to protest the beating and stripping of a female demonstrator in Tahrir Square.

Russia's Revolutionaries are Walking Into a Trap

Simon Shuster | Posted 02.29.2012

Simon Shuster

Although small rallies and pickets persist, nobody is talking much anymore about the rigged elections that threw a bucket of ice water onto Russia's lethargic electorate at the beginning of December.

Tyler Kingkade

Occupy Wall Street Adjusts To Outside Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.21.2011

WASHINGTON -- During a recent demonstration in Washington, D.C., several hundred progressives gathered on K Street were protesting the same outrage bu...

Mayor Bloomberg's Cowardice and Occupy Wall Street

Jumaane D. Williams | Posted 01.16.2012

Jumaane D. Williams

Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD acted with cowardice by trying to use the cloak of night, while people slept, as a shield from the highly questionable tactics they engaged in during their raid on Zuccotti Park.

Occupy Chicago One Month Anniversary Marked by Arrests

Mark Cassello | Posted 12.24.2011

Mark Cassello

Saturday's second attempt to occupy Grant Park was officially dubbed, "The Occupation Will Continue!" However, the event was more affectionately known to participants as "Take the Horse."

WATCH: BofA Branch Reportedly Refuses To Allow Protesters To Close Accounts

Posted 12.16.2011

Should people who are tired of paying extra fees be allowed to close their bank accounts in protest? One Bank of America official reportedly doesn't t...

An Open Letter to the Occupiers from a Veteran Troublemaker

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.13.2011

Jim Wallis

You have awakened the sleeping giant, too long dormant, but ever present, deep in the American democratic spirit. You have given voice and space to the unspoken feelings of countless others about something that has gone terribly wrong in our society.

Saki Knafo

Return To Levittown

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.13.2011

Last Wednesday, as thousands of protesters gathered in financial districts around the country shouting slogans like "Get money out of politics" and "T...

Notes from the Occupation

Sue VanDerzee | Posted 12.10.2011

Sue VanDerzee

This lack of need to see into the future, to have "goals" as defined by pundits, seems no real hindrance to those who are part of the demonstration. This is something different. This is the active creation of community.

Praying for Peace and Looking for Jesus at #OccupyWallStreet

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.06.2011

Jim Wallis

Here are a few things I know about the Occupy Wall Street protesters: When they stand with the poor, they stand with Jesus. When they stand with the hungry, they stand with Jesus. When they stand for those without a job or a home, they stand with Jesus.

WATCH: Occupy Chicago Protests Reach 13th Day

Posted 12.04.2011

As Chicago protests in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York verge onto the start of their third week, participants in the ...

Foreclosure Victims Take Protests To The Streets Of Major U.S. Cities

AOL Real Estate | Ann Brenoff | Posted 11.19.2011

Victims of the foreclosure mess and housing crisis are taking to the streets -- literally. Street demonstrations are being planned in 10 cities, and i...

Saki Knafo

WATCH: Arab Spring In New York? Maybe One Day

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.18.2011

NEW YORK -- On Saturday afternoon, nearly a thousand people gathered by the bull statue in Manhattan's financial district, marched up Broadway, and po...

In Israel, the Future Can Come Down to Just One Night

Bradley Burston | Posted 11.06.2011

Bradley Burston

How can you tell if a revolution is real? When this all started, I had no idea. But I kept going to the tent camps and to the marches until I learned.

Speech by Bob Geldof Inspires Instant Activism at One Young World

Kathleen Hale | Posted 11.02.2011

Kathleen Hale

2011-09-02-fgjfkgkfjgkfgkfvkfjkkdjvkd.jpgAccording to Bob Gedolf, as one grows closer to one's own end, one also grows more impatient for younger generations to take a stand.

London Calling

Christopher Holshek | Posted 10.14.2011

Christopher Holshek

When you look at the world and see hundreds of millions of idle, unemployed, and estranged youth who feel -- as the punks of a previous generation chanted -- they have "no future, no future," some pretty big things are going to happen.

The Israeli Summer

Noah Efron | Posted 09.30.2011

Noah Efron

Protesters have demanded an end to wholesale privatization. They have demanded that the country provide everyone with a good, fair start to life -- with guaranteed food and shelter, and good, free early education.

Photos: Young Voices of Cairo

Turnstyle | Posted 09.26.2011

Turnstyle

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Joshua Hersh

VIDEO: Journalists In Jordan Attacked By State Security Forces

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 09.14.2011

WASHINGTON -- Journalists in Jordan say they were given orange vests by government officials in order to help them safely cover protests there today -...

Anti-Tax Pols Should Look to the Greeks

Robert Schwab | Posted 08.30.2011

Robert Schwab

The congressmen who oppose raising taxes want to cut government spending to the bone, which means they want the burden of curing the deficit placed squarely on the backs of the middle class and the poor.

In Diapers and Angry, Protestors Take Spanish Streets

Posted 11.15.2011

It might look like an infantile response to Spain's financial crisis, but some protestors wanted to be taken seriously as they marched through the str...

Thousands of Splayed Hands of "Indignant Greeks" Target the Parliament

Thanos Dimadis | Posted 07.31.2011

Thanos Dimadis

Greeks are a people that have probably made a lot of mistakes over the last three and more decades. Maybe the biggest one of them was that they had entrusted -- more than they should have -- their hopes to their politicians.