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The March for Justice on April 24, 2015 was a six-mile march of over 130,000 [1] participants from the neighborhood designated as Little Armenia in Hollywood to the Turkish consulate of Los Angeles, demanding recognition of the Armenian genocide, which Turkey denies.
[21] [22] [23] The police started detaining protesters, stating that the rally was illegal. [24] Some protesters called for the rejection of the Alma-Ata Protocol, and Armenia's withdrawal from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which Pashinyan rejected, stating that such demands were "calls to abandon Armenia's independence."
In Anny Bakalian's book Armenian-Americans: From Being to Feeling Armenian, various groups of Armenians were polled for discrimination based on their identity. Roughly 77% of US-born Armenians felt they were discriminated in getting a job while 80% responded positively to a question whether they felt discriminated in getting admitted to a school.
The 2024 Armenian protests, most commonly known in Armenia as Tavush for the Homeland (Armenian: Տավուշը հանուն Հայրենիքի, romanized: Tavushy hanun Hayrenik’i), were a series of street demonstrations taking place throughout Armenia due to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan leading an effort to demarcate the Armenia–Azerbaijan border, reaching an agreement with the ...
Pro-Armenian protest in Los Angeles.Azerbaijani and Armenian demonstrators in front of the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles on 21 July. Austria – On 18 July, demonstrators, who were holding the Azerbaijani and Turkish flags, as well as posters that read "Justice for Azerbaijan", "Armenia must fulfill the decisions of the United Nations", and "Armenia should leave the lands it ...
On 5 October, Armenian Americans protested outside the Los Angeles (LA) CNN building, calling for more accurate coverage. [132] On 11 October, the LA community held a 100,000-person strong protest march to the Turkish Consulate, in tandem with smaller protests in Washington, San Francisco, New York City, Boston and elsewhere in the United States.
The 2022 Armenian protests (also known as the Resistance Movement; Armenian: Դիմադրության շարժում, romanized: Dimadrut’yan sharzhum) were a series of anti-government protests in Armenia that started on 5 April 2022. [5] The protests continued into June 2022, and many protesters were detained by police in Yerevan. [6]
Groups of Armenian-Americans protested the results in front of the Armenian consulates New York on February 22 and Los Angeles on 24 February 2013. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] On 26 February 2013, prominent Armenian American rock singer, Serj Tankian (lead singer of System of a Down ) sent an open letter to President Sargsyan, in which he congratulated on ...