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The United States Department of Justice filed conspiracy charges against May Day leader Rennie Davis, as well as against two other activists who had been members of the Chicago 7, John Froines and Abbie Hoffman. The charges were eventually dismissed. Out of the 12,000 demonstrators arrested, most were released without charges.
Irish journalist Harry Brown wrote that the run up to May Day 2004 saw ‘some of the most atrocious journalism in living memory’. [13] Aisling Reidy of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties expressed her concern that the Gardaí were trying to ‘soften up’ public opinion for a confrontation that weekend through stories fed to the media. [6]
Evil May Day or Ill May Day is the name of a xenophobic riot which took place on 1 May 1517 as a protest against foreigners (called "strangers" [1]) living in London. Apprentices attacked foreign residents ranging from "Flemish cobblers" to "French royal courtiers". [ 2 ]
The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. This list does not include internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events.
May Day Protests may refer to: 1971 May Day Protests in Washington, DC; New Haven May Day protests, 1970; 2009 May Day protests; Evil May Day; May Day Riots of 1919; Los Angeles May Day mêlée; 2014 May Day protests; 2015 May Day protests; 2017 May Day protests
The 2007 MacArthur Park rallies were two May Day rallies demanding amnesty for undocumented immigrants [1] [2] which occurred on May 1, 2007, at MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles. When the protest overflowed onto city streets, police drove motorcycles through the crowd, then ordered the crowd to disperse.
Federal officials said Tuesday that they've pushed back their timeline to resettle roughly 4,100 Afghan refugees who are still at the Indiana National Guard’s Camp Atterbury training post more ...
A pair of well-worn baby shoes worn by an orphan evacuated from Vietnam during Operation Babylift. With the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang having fallen in March, and with Saigon under attack and being shelled, on 3 April 1975, U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that the U.S. government would begin airlifting orphans out of Saigon on a series of 30 planned flights aboard Military Airlift ...