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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Many other schools have experienced protests without arrests. Protest demands vary from campus to campus, but a major focus is that universities divest from companies with financial ties to Israel ...
Still, the movement has drawn comparisons to that era, especially with its roots at Columbia and its echoes of a 1968 protest in which students took over campus buildings to protest the Vietnam ...
Protests started in the first hours after police released bodycam footage of Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating.
2011–2012 Moroccan protests; Hirak Rif Movement; Mozambique. 2010 Mozambican uprising; Myanmar. Saffron Revolution (2007–2008) 2021 Myanmar protests; Nepal. 2006 democracy movement in Nepal; Protest against Guthi Bill (2019) Netherlands. Dutch farmers' protests; New Zealand. 2022 Wellington protests; Nicaragua. 2014–2020 Nicaraguan ...