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The dawn raids were crackdowns in New Zealand from 1973 to 1979 and then sporadically afterward on alleged illegal overstayers from the Pacific Islands.The raids were first introduced in 1973 by Prime Minister Norman Kirk's Labour government, who discontinued them in April 1974.
The protest was attended by West Virginia arm of the American Civil Liberties Union and the West Virginia Women’s March, and other nonprofit organizations. The nonprofits handed out literature and connected with people who are against recent federal and state policies.
Miriama Rauhihi Ness was interviewed by Te Ao - Māori News in June 2020 where she spoke in support of Black Lives Matter protests. [25] In April 2021, former Polynesian Panther members are among those petitioning the New Zealand government for an official apology for the dawn raids that took place in the mid‑1970s. [26]
The protests, organized by the Pride Liberation Project, are scheduled to happen throughout the day. Students at nearly 100 Virginia schools stage walkout to protest governor’s anti-trans ...
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Like so many college students across the country protesting the Israel-Hamas war, Sattler feels the historic weight of the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations of the 1960s and 70s. “They always talked about the ’68 protest as sort of a North Star,” Sattler, 27, a graduate student of international human rights policy at Columbia University ...
After threats of an armed counterprotest, protesters showed up armed. The protest was largely peaceful, except for multiple cases of heated shouting matches between protesters and residents. [73] Later, on September 11, three people who attended the protest were arrested for various charges in a series of raids. [74]