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The National Day of Mourning is an annual demonstration, held on the fourth Thursday in November, that aims to educate the public about Native Americans in the United States, notably the Wampanoag and other tribes of the Eastern United States; dispel myths surrounding the Thanksgiving story in the United States; and raise awareness toward historical and ongoing struggles facing Native American ...
National Day of Mourning (Bangladesh), held 15 August. In 1975 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed by a group of army personnel, along with his family. Circassian Day of Mourning, held May 21, commemorating the Circassian genocide and the Circassian defeat in the Russian-Circassian War; Day of Mourning (Australia), annual protest of Aboriginal and ...
A 30-day period of national mourning was announced. Monday, January 22 and Tuesday, January 23, were declared bank holidays. [30] [31] Zimbabwe: 3 [32] FR Yugoslavia: 2001 1 Victims of the Podujevo bus bombing: 18 February declared national day of mourning. [33] Portugal: 2001 2 Victims of the Hintze Ribeiro Bridge disaster [34] [35] Andorra ...
The occupation lasted for 19 months, from November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971. They were visited by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who, inspired by the occupation, led other protests, the first on Thanksgiving in 1970 when they painted Plymouth Rock red. [1] The latter protest continued as the National Day of Mourning. The US ...
An eight-day mourning period was declared from April 9 to April 17; with national flag placed at half-mast at all federal buildings. [246] April 17 was designated a national day of mourning. [246] Georgia: 1 4 citizens drowned in the Enguri River [247] [248] Dominican Republic: 1 Death of Marcio Veloz Maggiolo [249] Chad: 14 Death of President ...
The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...
[citation needed] India declared five-day State Mourning, [4] Venezuela declared three days of national mourning [5] Dominican Republic declared day of mourning on 10 December 2013. [6] Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, in Singapore, died on 23 March 2015. Official days of national mourning in Singapore was from 23 to 29 March 2015.
In Canada, it is commemorated as the National Day of Mourning. Workers' Memorial Day is an opportunity to highlight the preventable nature of most workplace incidents and ill health and to promote campaigns and union organization in the fight for improvements in workplace safety. The slogan for the day is Remember the dead – Fight for the ...