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Protesting against George W. Bush in 2008. This is a list of protests and protest movements in the United Kingdom.Protest in the UK has concerned issues such as suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, parliamentary reform from the Chartists to the present day, poverty, wages and working conditions, fuel prices, war, human rights, immigration (both for and against), fathers' rights ...
It was revealed on 19 January 1972 that the number of divorces in the United Kingdom during 1971 exceeded 100,000 for the first time. 2 January – Ibrox disaster : a stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow killed 66 and left many more injured.
The Mangrove Nine were a group of British Black activists tried for inciting a riot at a 1970 protest against the police targeting of The Mangrove, a Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, West London. Their trial lasted 55 days and involved various challenges by the Nine to the legitimacy of the British judicial process. [1]
The second People's March for Jobs began in Glasgow on 23 April 1983. [5] On 5 June between 15,000 and 20,000 people attended a rally in Hyde Park, London, to mark the end of the march, addressed by Labour leader Michael Foot and the general secretary of the TUC, Len Murray.
The Gay Liberation Front in the UK was formed in 1970 in response to the formation of the GLF in the US, which was established after the Stonewall riots in 1969. Prior to the formation of GLF in the UK, the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) had been the primary focus for the campaign for gay rights; CHE focused on lobbying government for specific legal reforms, while GLF campaigned for ...
Hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters jammed the streets in April 1971 in Washington, D.C., and as the demonstration against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War heightened, more than 7,000 ...
Set primarily in Lexington, Massachusetts over Memorial Day weekend in 1971, the film focuses on the three-day protest in the form of a march, staged by newly returned war veterans. The film premiered in the Documentary Competition at the 2001 Sundance Festival and has screened extensively throughout the United States and in Europe.
1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War; N. Non-cooperation movement (1971) W. Winter Soldier Investigation This page was last edited on 8 October 2020, at 18: ...