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The 2019–2021 Algerian protests, also called Revolution of Smiles [26] [27] or Hirak (Arabic: الحِرَاك, romanized: al-Ḥirāk, lit. 'The movement' [ 28 ] ), began on 16 February 2019, [ 1 ] [ 29 ] six days after Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his candidacy for a fifth presidential term in a signed statement.
The first protests started on 16 February (the anniversary of the 2019–2020 protests) in Kherrata and Algiers, followed by dozens of other towns and cities nationwide holding subsequent rallies; these would be referred to as the Hirak. The protest movement gained momentum when tens of thousands of protesters marched nationwide on 22 February ...
Femmes algériennes pour un changement vers l'égalité (Algerian women for a change towards equality) or FACE is a women's organisation created during the 2019 Algerian "Hirak" protests and credited with the invention of the "feminist square", [1] a part of the Friday Hirak protests held in front of Algiers 1 University.
A protest in Paris demanding the release of the Hirak prisoners. Five years on, protests have largely disintegrated. Political and economic demands were left unanswered, and some activists still remain in jail. [7] However, the movement changed the political context in Morocco, and particularly in the Rif. Firstly, Rifians found a new solidarity.
Those events, like the current protest, “sparked a huge increase in student activism around the country,” Mark Rudd, a leader of that protest, said in an email to The Associated Press.
The 4B movement is a feminist protest movement that originated in South Korea in 2019 as a response to anti-feminist waves after the election of a conservative South Korean President.
The movement is rooted in several instances of indigenous territory being colonized, ruled, and marginalized by different powers and the riots and civil disobedience resulting from it, including the 1958 Rif riots and the Hirak Rif movement. While Riffian independence has been a topic of protest and organization in the past, the formal and ...
The weekly protests aim to ensure the POWs are not forgotten, and draw supportive honks from passing cars. There’s a growing gap between those who serve and those who don’t, ...