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53 Of The Most Powerful Images Of Women Protesters Of All Time
Women have had hundreds upon hundreds of reasons to carry protest posters since the dawn of time, whether it was for voting rights, reproductive rights, or most recently, against sexual predators holding powerful positions. What started with the first well-organized, not so peaceful protest for suffrage in as early as 1913, is now often supported by men also, who understand that feminism and related social issues are not some evil entity, but rather thinking of women as equals. Sadly enough, ladies still have to prove their worthiness to some.
To celebrate the strength and bravery of all the women and girls who have taken to the streets, stood up for their beliefs and gender equality, and stared down anyone who tried to get in their way, we've compiled the best photos of female social activists and protesters from around the world, and they're sure to speak to your renegade soul. They might even inspire you to get a protest sign in your own hands the next time you have a chance. Be sure to vote for the most powerful ones, and let us know if you've ever committed an act of defiance for a good cause in the comments.
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#1
A Protester Holding A Sign For Women's Rights, 2017
Micco Mann 5 years ago
Amazing images and very empowering and hopeful. I went through all of your pixs but you failed to include this one. High school Native American track and field long distance runner Rosalie Fish decided one day to protest the missing and murdered Native American women in America by painting a bloody hand across her face, an act that spoke to millions. http://bit.ly/2vayCce
Dennis Hughes 8 years ago
One is correcting a failing natural process. The other is preventing a properly functioning natural process. Poor comparison, at best.
Carlos Colon 5 years ago (edited)
Not if they're both gods will. Which many believe in that sort of thing. Thats the main point of the sign.
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Danuta Danielsson Hitting A Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag In Växjö, Sweden, 13 April 1985
Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
This photo has been turned into a bronze statue--don't remember where it is
Frankie 8 years ago
Ah yes, we're very proud of her. She was in the process of becoming a statue but I can't remember what became of that!
Poor unfortunate soul 8 years ago
All the people in the background, are staring at her in amazement
Ola Slavin 5 years ago
sadly the police in Sweden arrested her for this! when i was in Sweden i kept saying she should have got a medal but they kept telling me that it is not ok to attack people so it is ok she got arrested=[[[ by the way she is a holocaust survivor and that is why is got out of her house and attacked them!
#3
Two Women Kissing During An Anti Gay Marriage Demonstration In France, 2012
Lara B. 8 years ago
The woman on the right is smiling though. But maybe just out of embarrassment..
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Lu 8 years ago
Life is too short to be bothered by who kisses who or who loves who. Seriously life is short, smile, laugh and have a cool beverage.
Dani Donovan 8 years ago
I wish I could upvote your comment 100 times!! <3
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Sarah Figini 8 years ago
bet a lot of the women at that demonstration are secretly gay and just dont know how to handle their feelings
Zoe Alliaume 7 years ago
I was born in france I don't currently live there but seriously tho like if they r happy and ur against that, just stfu and let them be. Honnestly their look on their faces are worth the kiss of these to beautiful and happy looking gay couple
Darlon Shelter 8 years ago
A beautiful image, no doubt. Down with prejudice! PS. The faces of the spectators make me die of laughter.
#4
Kathrine Switzer Was The First Woman To Run The Boston Marathon. When Organizer Jock Semple Realised A Woman Was Running He Tried To Tackle Her, 1967
Hans 8 years ago
Brave woman! And what incredible unsportsmanship from the organizers. The 390 guy is good hearted, though!
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
390 (Tom Miller) was Kathrine Switzer companion. She militated for the women to be allowed to run Marathon. She won New York Marathon in the 70's. I think that she participated to NY Marathon this year ;p
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Chyppa Homer 8 years ago
What is the thought process behind a d**k move like this ? "It`s such a beautiful day today. Hey, look ! A woman in my marathon. The perfect opportunity for showing everybody what an a*****e I am !"
Hans 8 years ago
If you read about the history of women in sports, things like this were pretty normal. Spectators might even have considered such a move to be righteous. Fortunately, fellow sportspeople typically recognize how sports – while showing that we not all have the same abilities – can reveal that we all share some ambitions, gender, race, believe etc. notwithstanding.
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Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
Wow! She was so brave--such unbridled hate and anger and unsportsman-like conduct.
#5
A Demonstrator Faces Down A Riot Policeman During A Pro Democracy Protest In Santiago, Chile, 11 September 2016
just a thought ! 8 years ago
If eyes could kill , he would've been shot up to space😂love this pic
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Marit van Putten 8 years ago
But why? The police is just there to prevent violence, they're not protesting against the police so why would they get angry with them.
Zurrinity Kane 6 years ago
because police aren't there protecting HER and she is the one brave citizen to stand up for the many! police are just trained dogs to do as anyone with enough money and power tell them to do. so while she's representing her people, the police are just there waiting on orders. yes, to many, the slogan is to "protect and serve" but whose protecting her and the reason why she is there protesting in the first place. thats right! no one but her and the other protesters. Look at this pic! these people are literally willing to fight for what they beleive in but all they are doing is chanting and making noise and police get called because apparently people having a voice in any dang age is wrong. They didn't come to protect her, you can see it in their faces! those guys hate their job! they show up with their big guns and in their big a*s suits of armor and the woman whose literally 2 heads shorter is the threat? and i bet it was the police man who got in her face and she just didnt move!
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Joe Reaves 8 years ago
The anniversary of the democratically elected left wing leader being replaced by a right wing dictator who was responsible for the death or disappearance of people for doing just what she is now doing - exercising her right to protest. Powerful image.
#6
A Girl Begging The Officers Not To Use Force Against The Protesters. Bulgaria, November 2013
Zori the degu 8 years ago
Wow, this is in the center of Sofia. You can't imagine how long the protest times seemed to me. They went on for like, months, literally.
Rainbow Unicorn 8 years ago
Crazy how these kind of moments happen, isn't it?
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Vera Deme 8 years ago
2 years later they find each other and become good friends. He did quit the police.
Load More Replies... Zenozenobee 8 years ago
Not necessary. It happens sometimes, that the forces supposed to bash the People refuse their task. In France it's called "Fraternisation". During French revolution, in Paris, guards refused to obey the King, during the wine revolts in 1907 a régiment join the demonstrators and pacificaly prevent the other forces to hurt them... It cost nothing to try. ;)
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Marnee DeRider 8 years ago
And here in the US in most places, she'd likely get maced, handcuffed, and arrested for doing this (by our overly-militarized police).
#7
A Woman Sits In Front Of Riot Police Blocking The Road To Protect Protesters During The Anti-Government Protest In Seoul, South Korea, 24 April 2015
Mn gooze 8 years ago
I've never seen 화이팅 romanized before 😂 seriously though you misspelled waiting
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Mn gooze 8 years ago
I never really understood where the whole "submissive asian woman" stereotype came from. Korean ajumas are so scary. My maternal grandma looks like that and she can still scare the s**t out when she wants to and she's 93. Korean halmunis will kill you of you're looking at them the wrong way
Sonia Johnson 5 years ago
She looks like she hadn’t a care in the world and yet she is at the precipice of violence. She is amazing.
Lelly Taffyn 5 years ago
The courage of this woman is stunning - and her knowing of what is just!
#8
Young Pacifist Jane Rose Kasmir Planting A Flower On The Bayonets Of Guards At The Pentagon During A Protest Against The Vietnam War, 21 October 1967
Marnee DeRider 8 years ago
Such a gesture could possibly land you waiting in jail for months to face your felony charges. In North Dakota last year, a veteran tried to hand a flower to a police officer as protesters were marching by. He was grabbed by about 5-6 police officers. The guy panicked. He kept yelling, "I have panic attacks from military service!" over and over, probably coached by a therapist as to what to do if a panic attack came on. Things have gotten WAY out of hand here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmmjof8BVYA
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Nicola Morley 8 years ago
No one would dare to do something like this nowadays since the military ( not all members thought) shoot the moment their guns are touched, they are to assume the gun is being wrestled from them or tampered with in some way. Too dangerous for a protester to do stuff like this. If the guy was trigger happy back in ‘67, this peaceful image would not have been taken.
#9
Maria-Teresa "Tess" Asplund Stands Up To Uniformed Demonstrators In A Nazi Demonstration In Borlänge, Sweden, 1 May 2015
Pi... 8 years ago
Nazis in 2015... gawd... one bad idea, millions affected, and it still lingers on...
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
I'm affraid hate is not something that stick to a time. Humanity doesn't seems to be able to get rid of that s**t. All those xenophobia, homophobia..... are not phobia at all, juste hate. We need to start an overproduction of love !
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Joe Reaves 8 years ago
She looks so powerful - and they look like they have no idea what to do in response.
lunagoth 8 years ago
Why is Nazi still allowed? I know freedom of speech exists, but this not freedom. This is racism and pure evil!
Ulf Winroth 5 years ago
One problem in Sweden is that we are free to join any groups, even Nazist. It is not a crime to be Nazist in Sweden... So long as you don't do anything criminal...
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#10
Gloria Richardson Pushes Away The Bayonet Of A National Guardsman During A Protest In Cambridge, Md., 1963
Emily Wimbish 5 years ago
I looked her up because I was curious, because it looks like there's so much going on...and there is!! This badass woman was considered one of the top Civil Rights leaders at the time, and she was *the* leader of the Cambridge Civil Rights protest movement!!! This lady helped make sure desegregation happened in her hometown, through several years of determination!! Powerful indeed <3
Emily Wimbish 5 years ago
Ok, so, I just looked her up and she was the leader of the Cambridge Civil Rights protest movement and one of the top Civil Rights leaders!!!!
Julian Mallett 8 years ago
A bayonet?? I know it was 1963, but the guardsman has a bayonet at a protest of fellow citizens? Jesus.
#11
Zakia Belkhiri Takes A Selfie At An Anti-Muslim Demonstration In Antwerp, Belgium 2016
Shana 8 years ago
I thought this pic looked familiar... This girl made this selfie for "peace" and "coexisting" and what not, yet before her twitter was deleted, she had posted several anti-semite tweets... so...
Shana 8 years ago
(*closed her twitter and made a new one, or just removed the old tweets, not sure)
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frederic eeckman 8 years ago
Unfortunately not long ago after she became famous for that, she basically had to close her twitter and facebook accounts because of the antisemitic things she was saying. It was things like "Hitler didn't kill all the jews, he left some alive so we can understand why he was killing them", or "I hate them so much (the jews)" :s
Petra Christovová 8 years ago
She kind of confirmed the point of the protesters in the photo.
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Mahmuda Shah 5 years ago
All you making negative comment towards Muslims. Seriously get a grip
Zoe Alliaume 7 years ago
I'm white, Europeen but I live in a muslim country and honnestly this is so disrespectful to Muslim religion. Some ppl @ the back r smiling for some reason. But seriously accept other ppls religions ffs and then problemed solved
d r e a m w o r l d 8 years ago
Anti-muslim, anti-LGTB, anti-trans and such are all ludicrous. That's like kicking a kid out of a sports crew for owning a red blanket. It's wild and it doesn't make any sense at all. We need to focus on the more important and sensible "anti" subjects, such as anti-abortion, anti-rascism, and anti-bullying. We don't need to let differences get between a human and a normal life.
Full Name 8 years ago
Anti-muslim is very different from anti LGBT(Q). LGBTQ never hurt anybody and they don't oppress people. I'm not saying I agree with an anti-muslim protest, but at least they are protesting real world suffering directly brought on by muslim people. Two very different things.
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Tamás Mile-Tóth 3 years ago
She can do it at an anti-Muslim demonstration among the peaceful Christians, but a Christian woman would be dead among the Muslims if the same Christian were tried that what this protein block is doing in this picture.
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Marilyn Webb Holds Up A Sign As She Protests For Women's Rights In Front Of The Federal Trade Commission Headquarters While Policemen Look On During Richard Nixon's Inauguration Weekend, Washington, Dc, 18-21 January 1969
Petra Christovová 8 years ago
Those were heroes. It is so sad that modern feminism has been corrupted by leftism nonsenses, stupid proclamations, poking in the language and many other useless things. Even women often condemn those ideas and activities today because of that. Truth is that we owe original feminism equality in law, work and family. Today´s "feminism" is just a bunch of mad social warriorswhose do a bad name to this movement.
#13
16-Year-Old Student, Lucie Myslikova Confronting A Neo-Nazi Demonstrator
Maike Hoffmann 8 years ago
that is because hair does not grow well on a vacuum.
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Young Girl With Roller Skates Shows A Soldier In Derry She Isn’t Scared, Northern Ireland, 1969
PurpleUnicorn 8 years ago
I wish there wasn't any fighting in Northern Ireland, I live in the Republic of Ireland
Marnee DeRider 8 years ago
This isn't a protester. From what I read (here on this site), it was just that it became so commonplace. This photo doesn't belong here.
Fiona Lepperd 5 years ago
For those of us who grew up there it was a normal day in "The Troubles."
Darryl Kerrigan 7 years ago
There has been an ongoing conflict over Ireland, for hundreds of years. In the 1920's (sorry, unsure of date) Ireland became independent of Britain, EXCEPT for a portion called 'Northern Ireland' which remained under British control. The IRA and republicans fought/fight to gain independence and the UVF fought/fight to stay British. And whenever there was any 'trouble' (i.e riots and violence) the British sent in the army. Hence this.
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Kevin Donegan 8 years ago
Sadly, there may be another wall erected in Northern Ireland with the Brexit exit. These photos could be reality again. So sad.
Denise Terrell 5 years ago
This should be put on. The Peace Wall . It conveys all that must never be forgotten
#15
Protester Ieshia Evans Is Detained By Law Enforcement Near The Headquarters Of The Baton Rouge Police Department In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, During A Demonstration Against The Shooting Death Of Alton Sterling, 9 July 2016
Pi... 8 years ago
Two policemen in full gear and that one beautiful woman standing to oppose them.... I'd frame this one too!
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
Yep, it doesn't make them look very brave, does it? :p
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Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
This is one of the most powerful images in the last few years. She looks so calm, dignified and so vulnerable and exposed--and the men--their armour--this image says it all.
Daria B 8 years ago
While the policemen look pretty scared, and it's not even a judgdemen from me, just the way it looks. It's like a goddess standing before surprised sinners. (Again, I'm talking about aesthetics here)
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#16
Polish Women Take Part In A Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene Protest In Warsaw’s Subway. In Reaction To A Ban Imposed By City Officials On An Art Project, Portraying Breastfeeding Mothers, 15 June 2011
Lara B. 8 years ago
This is the most natural thing there is. If you don't like it - don't look at it! I can't understand people who want to ban it. Women have been feeding their kids like that since the beginning of time. Ridiculous..
Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
God forbid a woman's breast should be used for anything but a man's pleasure. I've seen breasts used to advertise mops and butter--but breast-feeding? I'm so tired of people freaking out.
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It's alway fun to see people get offended by titties when it's about feeding a baby (the same poeple ussually not so offend about sexist adds). Maybe we should just let babies die
Elizabott 8 years ago
Honestly I'm still someone who kinda goes "UUUM UM UM" and has NO idea where it's polite to look for a few seconds when a mother begins breastfeeding...and then I realize I'm being ridiculous and this is WAY more a thing for her than it is for me, and if SHE'S not awkward, then I don't have to do. But even in my worst, worst, WORST moments, it never would have occurred to me to ban it. That''s like banning people over 6 feet from walking too quickly. Babies gotta eat, tall people gotta walk.
Hilzillah 8 years ago
I'm a breastfeeding mom atm. But I'm totally with you on this. I feel awkward when I see a mom breastfeeding. But ends up finding myself an idiot for feeling awkward
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julia church 8 years ago
even if it's somthing u dont want to look at dosnt mean u protest,its natural
Bisexual22 8 years ago
Why would you ban women from giving them natural nutrients? I'm sorry your mommy didn't love you but don't punish everyone else
#17
Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst Is Arrested At A Demonstration Outside Buckingham Palace, January 1914
William Teach 8 years ago
I was wondering if some of the real old time ones would show up. I know this is in Britain, but, look up Alice Paul and the jail door pin for the U.S. Inspirational.
Abby Rexroth 8 years ago
I knew I'd heard that surname before and the subject and time period were correct. Remember Disney's Mary Poppins? The song "Sister Suffragette" We're clearly soldiers in petticoats And dauntless crusaders for woman's votes Though we adore men individually We agree that as a group they're rather stupid! Cast off the shackles of yesterday! Shoulder to shoulder into the fray! Our daughters' daughters will adore us And they'll sign in grateful chorus "Well done, Sister Suffragette!" From Kensington to Billingsgate One hears the restless cries! From ev'ry corner of the land: "Womankind, arise!" Political equality and equal rights with men! Take heart! For Missus Pankhurst has been clapped in irons again! No more the meek and mild subservients we! [...] Songwriters: Richard M. Sherman / Robert B. Sherman Sister Suffragette lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company
Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
Suffragettes were also force fed in prison when they went on hunger strikes
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#18
An Israeli Woman Stands Up Against Police Brutality At A Protest In Tel-Aviv
Lara B. 8 years ago
This could be the beginning of a wonderful love story, but unfortunately we don't live in a Disney world :(
Poor unfortunate soul 8 years ago
She is looking at him like he is dog poop on the bottom of her shoe
#19
A Woman Dances In Front Of Riot Police During A Demonstration In The Kadikoy Neighborhood Of Istanbul Against The Eviction Of A Squatted Building, 9 December 2014
Isabel Tamayo 8 years ago
The bright red dress, her movement... and the black background. So little color in this picture but so much is going on in it too.
Zoe Alliaume 7 years ago
It look slike they are mezmerised by her dancing bcs from this pic it looks full of emotion
Bisexual22 8 years ago
Dance your pretty heart out. If they won't listen to our voices, then maybe they'll listen to your dance.
#20
Photo Of Saffiyah Khan Smiling At An English Defence League (Edl) Protester In Birmingham Was Snapped After She Stepped In To Defend A "Fellow Brummie"
anarkzie 8 years ago
You may not be able to tell from this picture but the EDL are a bunch of knobs
Fangirl Cancer 8 years ago
A perfect example of true strength, to stand up against those who hate and oppose you, and yet not letting your smile and happiness falter <3
#21
Woman Campaigning For The Vote Is Restrained By Policemen, C 1910. British Women Did Not Win Full Voting Rights Until 1928
ilikebees 8 years ago
All Women where able to vote in around the 1960s, this is just white women
Alix Walker 8 years ago
This was in Brirain, not the US... Women in the UK gained the vote in 1918, but eligibility required meeting property restrictions and an age of 30, compared to an age of 21 and with no property restrictions for men. Equal suffrage came into place in 1928 (21 with no property restrictions for men and women) and in 1969 the age was reduced to 18.
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Zurrinity Kane 6 years ago
its because the now that everyone whose a citizen that CAN vote now knows that even if they vote their vote can be tampered with. it really is getting pointless...
Load More Replies... Zenozenobee 8 years ago
France best democracy ever! Wait....French women voted for the first time in 1945, which means we were allowed to vote after Russians, Armenians, Turkish, Mongols, British Burmeses...
Magpie 8 years ago
Just so you know/ remember : she is screaming in pain at that point. The police used brutal painful holds.
Magpie 8 years ago
Full Name, it is still common for police to use the same " holds" , and yes I have protested about things I believe in. umm Caturday Queen Elizabeth was not elected. It is an inherited position.
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Eva Žigon 5 years ago
They still can't vote in Saudi Arabia and the testimony before court of one man is worth that of two or even four women (depending on the circumstances) in Sharia (Islamist) courts. Nor do women have equal rights in many other ways in the Muslim religion.
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Zulaikha Patel, 13, Along With Other Schoolgirls, Protests Racist Hair Policies At Pretoria Girls High School, South Africa, 2016
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
Racism toward adult people is a shame, but against kids? really? You need to have much hate (and time to lose) to bother creating rules about hair.
Petra Christovová 8 years ago
This reminds me attacking girls attending school in some muslim countries. Those "people" must have a lot of hate and possibly stupidity in themselves too.
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Johanna Zamora 8 years ago
Fight for your right to wear your hair the most natural way for you and not some b******t white beauty standard
Emma Patterson 7 years ago
It’s happening here in Japan... Girls with naturally lighter hair are forced to dye it black. Only recently have I finally seen articles discussing the issue—and it’s mostly because students are finally taking a stand.
Zoe Alliaume 7 years ago
Bruh seriously hair policy? Mkay first of all y'all are hating on skin color when there is no reason you should, but now ur being racist over kids AND THEIR HAIR? Like excuse me but what? I don't recall any f*****g hair law, so stfu and leave k? (Sorry for my language)
#23
Feminists Are Burning Some Election Posters To Fight For Women's Suffrage. Photograph. Paris, France, 12 May 1935
Manuela Sinning 8 years ago
I Love the Auftragsfrey and I'm Thanksgiving that this women die what they did.
Zoe Alliaume 7 years ago
Aller la France! Merci pour vos combats envers les droits pour les femmes et votre bravour! They have so much courage
Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
My god, 1938? Holy, that sucks. My great-grandmother voted in 1916--I thought that was backward.
#24
Woman Yelling At A Cop During An Anti-Apartheid Protest, 1981
Nadine Ducca 8 years ago
Haha! Look at her enthusiasm. Between that and the megaphone, the cop's ears must be ringing.
Maarama Kamira 8 years ago
This was taken in the anti-apartheid demonstrations in NZ. The Springboks were touring. During that time Maori members of the All-Blacks were given 'honorary white' status so they could play in South Africa.
Beth Claire 5 years ago
The banner is in the Maori language (te reo) and is saying something about whawhai (the conflict / quarrel) of matou (us); and 'Ake! ake!" is something like 'forever and ever'. Taken in New Zealand / Aotearoa.
Xai 7 years ago
apartheid was the segregation of POC and whites pre-1994 in South Africa. extremely sad time and multitudinous amounts of POC were...
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#25
With Blood Covering Her Hand And Arm, A Woman Points At A Police Officer In Charlotte, Nc, 21 September 2016
Christine Romeijn 6 years ago
Here is the story of the photographer. https://medium.com/@SeanRayford/i-photographed-the-charlotte-protests-81b5313f024e
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A Woman Kneels Down And Holds Up A Feather While Facing Police Moving In To Break Up Anti-Fracking Protesters In New Brunswick, October 2013
Isabel Tamayo 8 years ago
Wow fracking... Look how far man's intelligence has come. Very disturbing.
H G 2 years ago
I think most people thought you were anti-fracking because you weren't clear. Most intelligent life on the planet agrees that fracking is bad and unnecessary because, you know, science.
Load More Replies... CelSlade 8 years ago
Don't worry hun, she's strong. She's survived asteroid bombardment, periodic ice ages, violent tectonic movement, shifting weather patterns and atmospheric composition... she's gonna be just fine and life will find a way. It's ourselves we're killing.
Load More Replies... Full Name 8 years ago
Why did people downvote Abby below? She pointed out a truth and got downvoted because it didn't fit the narrative. God I hate BP SJW's
H G 2 years ago
Or maybe it doesn't fit what really happened. I searched and found only one mention of trash being left behind, by police. I think she pulled the dog thing out of thin air. I really believed it might be true, too. Always trust but verify.
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Jasmina Golubovska Kisses The Shield Of A Police Officer In Front Of The Macedonian Government Building In Skopje, 5 May 2015
#28
Woman Braves The Water Cannon In Turkey, 2013
SnoopyCereal 8 years ago
Don't those things have like... a really, really high water pressure? Ouch.
Elizabott 8 years ago
Oh yeah, she would definitely be bruised. Such a bad a*s.
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Women Protested Against The Dismantling Of Policies To Confront And Care For Women Victims Of Violence In The City Of São Paulo, 10 August 2017
JillVille Child Care 8 years ago
The intensity of everything in this photo is unreal. I cannot even begin to comprehend what these women go through in their countries. I'm in Canada, I feel so spoiled. :(
Nighty fox dreemurr 7 years ago
Im brazillian. My mother has never met her father because he left her as soon as she was born. He was always drunk and always violent. Thank god he left.
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Indian Policemen Restrain A Tibetan Woman During A Demonstration At The Chinese Embassy. On The Occasion Of The Tibetan Women’s Uprising Day, New Delhi, 12 March 2008
Philip Sugden 5 years ago
My wife and I have been part of these demonstrations in New Delhi. They can be quite brutal.
Pi... 8 years ago
I have a feeling they were doing it to keep her safe and keep peace. The China and Tibet situation is pretty volatile with India trying to provide asylum in some ways.
Brinna Rhys Bell 7 years ago
So...violently taking over a country is okay but demonstrating against the oppressive regime that took your homecountey is "disturbing the peace?" What peace are you talking about?!
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Feminist Activists Protest On The Streets During A National Demonstration Called "Ni Una Menos (Not One Woman Less)" To Demand Justice For All Women Victims Of Gender Crimes And In Repudiation To The Murder Of Florencia Aguirre, A Nine Year Old Girl Who Was Strangled, Burned And Buried By His Father In The City Of Coyhaique, Valparaiso, Chile, 19 October 19 2016
CelSlade 8 years ago
Translation software doesn't always get the gender right
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Elizabeth Molloy 8 years ago
it's the 21st century, and STILL we have to make a noise to get justice for women and girls. Disgusting!
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English Suffragette Annie Kenney (1879 - 1953) Is Arrested During A Demonstration
Lara B. 8 years ago
And she looks so happy :) Because she knows she's doing the right thing and knows, that it will be worth it one day!
Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
English suffragettes were tough. Men once set a meeting room on fire and blocked the entrances so the women couldn't escape. They did and were not daunted. One woman even killed herself by running onto a racing field. Others were imprisoned, went on hunger strikes and were force fed. We have a lot to be thankful to those women for.
#33
A Woman Gestures To Riot Policemen During A Protest Organized By The Rally For Culture And Democracy (Rcd), Algiers, 02 July
Agnes Jekyll 8 years ago
Look at her face, so full of humanity--the man behind the plexiglass sees it too.
Claire Hoyt 8 years ago
The police have orders they can't disobey. Some of them agree with the protesters. I think this woman saw one and knew he was in a moral battle.
Devlin Mawson 5 years ago
yeah you can tell these guys really don't want to even hold the shield wall.
#34
A Woman Yells At A Man Dressed As Adolf Hitler During A Protest Of Newly Inaugurated President Donald Trump At A Women's March Saturday, Las Vegas, 21 January 2017
Ian Carter 8 years ago
many people outside of Europe dont fully understand what Hitler symbolizes to many different groups across Europe. Its NEVER a good idea to dress like him.
Elizabott 8 years ago
That's the thing about trump voters - they don't get it, they're just uneducated bigots who want to be in on something.
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frederic eeckman 8 years ago
Let's just be clear, the guy dressed like Hitler is actually protesting against Trump, and the woman is a Trumpster ?
Clucker Chicken Cluckers 8 years ago
who knows, but it's never good to dress up like Hitler
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Pi... 8 years ago
I think they both had the same idea. Protest against the newly elected president... so...not really sure about this one.
#35
A Woman In Buenos Aires Protests With A Sign That Says “Stop Sexist Violence”
Katie Belk 5 years ago (edited)
She stands there in the rain while everyone else just moves around her. My heart hurts for her, but this is where hope is inspired.
#36
A Femen Activist, Sarah Constantin, Is Hanged From A Noose-Like Rope From A Paris Bridge To Call Attention To The Large Number Of Executions In Iran. Paris, 28 January 2016
Bisexual22 8 years ago
See what this world has come to? People killing everyone and themselves for what? Power, money, bragging rights? When is it gonna stop?
Jacob Johnson 5 years ago
Just FYI: This is a mock hanging made in protest. She didn't *actually* hang herself.
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Fie Nielsen 8 years ago
Femen are horrible. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/203075/femen-behind-every-half-naked-feminist-activist-daniel-greenfield
Jedidiah Gibbousen 6 years ago (edited)
They have since kicked Victor Syvatski out and the movement is now headed only by women. According to their current leading member Inna Shevchenko, Syvatski was not a founder of FEMEN, just someone who insinuated himself into the roll of leader. Syvatski was very opposed to the idea but they allowed Kitty Green to make her film because it would bring this to public light.
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Yeah, I'm a feminist, but Femen is just extrimist, which I don't support. Just like PETA or Greenpeace
#37
Two Garment Workers Picketing, Circa 1909
Woodstock Namaste 8 years ago
I don't think they'd appreciate being called adorable. ffs.
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#38
A Member Of The “Women In Black”, An International Peace Network, Lays On The Ground Wrapped In A Plastic Bag, As A Sign Of Protest In Downtown Novi Sad, Serbia, 10 December 2005
Rivkaka 8 years ago
And you can see another person behind laying in a fully opened plastic bag
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#39
A Woman Listens To A Rally With Her Mouth Taped Shut During The 'Justice For All' March In Washington, Dc, 13 December 2014
#40
A Woman Stands In Front Of Police Officers As They Block Access To A Street During A Protest Against Proposed Labour Reforms In Paris, 14 June 2016
#41
An Anti Government Protester Flashes A Victory Sign During The Clashes Between Protesters And Riot Police On Taksim Square In Istanbul, 22 June 2013
#42
A Palestinian Woman Argues With An Israeli Border Policeman During A Protest Against Jewish Settlements In The West Bank Village Of Nabi Saleh
Kate Szymanski 8 years ago
There's so much complication between Palestinian's relationships with not just Israel, but much of the middle east due to geography. I wouldn't see this picture as black and white as good versus bad.
Lyndsey Devine 5 years ago
EDIT: There's so much complication between Israel’s** relationships with not just Palestine, but much of the middle east due to geography. I wouldn't see this picture as black and white as good versus bad.
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Aunt Messy 8 years ago
Israel has a government policy of apartheid no different than South Africa's was. History is repeating itself.
Mick Fowler 8 years ago
Two people consumed by hatred. One of them gets paid for it with my tax money. The other is justified.
#43
A Turkish Riot Policeman Uses Tear Gas As People Protest Against The Destruction Of Trees In A Park Brought About By A Pedestrian Project, In Taksim Square In Central Istanbul, 28 May 2013
Angela Lltw 5 years ago
she will recover bless her heart! That F*****G COWARD spraying her deserves never to sleep again however!
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Elizabeth Molloy 8 years ago
Oh look, a big tough guy, spraying tear gas DIRECTLY into the face of a woman who is literally just standing there. He must be *SO* proud of himself.
Tasha Harris 8 years ago
I don't think she would of been breathing well after that ... he sprayed her like my auntie sprays spiders... good way to kill someone.
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Bisexual22 8 years ago
He needs to burn in Hell, If not I will personally put him there myself. This isn't right
Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
you think she walked out the door that day planning on getting sprayed with pepper spray in the face?
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Masked Women Protesting Against Gender Violence During A Demonstration In Madrid For The International Day Against Gender Violence, 25 November 2015
Ori Winters 8 years ago
"Hair on your legs? That's disgusting. No way -My ex-" "They called me a butch for playing football -11years-" "You can't wear a clavage to scholl because you're going to distract your classmates -17 years, a teacher-" I can't fully read the lateral ones, sorry.
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Chinese Riot Police Watch A Muslim Ethnic Uighur Woman Protest In Urumqi In China’s Far West Xinjiang Province Following A Third Day Of Unrest, 7 July 2009
Rianna Panda 8 years ago
this is Eastturkestan. China calls it Xinjiang. People of Eastturkestan called Uyghurs. The women protested there because chinese government just killed 10'000 of Uyghur Men. i think i read somewhere her Husband and son were killed.
Sonia Johnson 5 years ago
Such bravery! So much grief, trauma, and destruction caused by man. It gets old.
#46
Demonstrators Remove Their Brassieres During An Anti-Bra Protest Outside A San Francisco Department Store
Susan Rappenwolf 8 years ago
I don't see a single woman watching in support, just some lustful jerks hoping for a nip-slip.
Wanda Queen 8 years ago
I'm assuming it was during the 60's when women were burning bras in support of feminism.
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#47
Semi-Nude Indian Devadasi Women Shout Anti-Government Slogans During A Protest In Mumbai, 15 August 2010
Brinna Rhys Bell 7 years ago
From outlookindia: "Partially nude Devadasi women protest in Mumbai to demand 2000 Rupees per month as pension for life after their retirement. Devadasis belong to a Hindu tradition in which girls are married and dedicated to a deity or temple. The sign reads "Maharashtra Submissive and Devadasis Women's Organization. Various Demands, Opposing Maharashtra Government. Nude Rally.”
#48
An Afro-Ecuadorean Woman Argues With Police Guarding A Fence In Front Of The National Assembly In Quito. In Protest Of A Proposed Water Privatization Law That Could Impact The Country’s Indigenous Population, 5 May 2010
Mick Fowler 8 years ago
Yes. She is holding a rock. While multi-billion dollar corporations like Nestle hold her supply of water, claiming that access to water not a basic right. What's next?
Papiros Grupo Gráfico 5 years ago
What does “Afro-Ecuadorian” has to do with anything here?? Racist subtleties
Elizabeth Molloy 8 years ago
Water privatization? It falls from the sky, how can it possibly 'belong' to anyone? Money over humanity, yet again.
#49
A Demonstrator Holds A Flower That She Says Is A Symbol Of Hope, 3 December 1999
Jasmina Wetherley 8 years ago
i was looking at her hand which she was holding up and wondering: where is the flower?
Leslie Sirag 5 years ago
We were teaching in China when this happened & watched it on TV with Chinese colleagues who were amazed that American police were attacking Americans.
Gerry Vickers 5 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
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A Woman Protester Waves The Victory Sign During Clashes With Military Police Near Tahrir Square, 17 January 2013
Magpie 8 years ago
Not sure if that is victory sign or peace sign. ( i am in Australia perhaps it is different in different countries ? )
Beth Bowles 5 years ago
It started as the “V for Victory” sign during WW2. It became known as the peace sign during the 1960’s. Could be either.
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Remember for many of us this is the hand symbol for peace, it is likely she is asking for peace.
#51
Police Arrest A Demonstrator Affiliated With The Occupy Wall Street Movement After She And Fellow Protesters Attempted To Cross The Brooklyn Bridge On The Motorway. The Arrested Woman Is Seen Screaming Out Her Name To Supporters On The Pedestrian Bridge Above Who Were Recording Names Of Those Arrested. This Portion Of The Bridge Is Not Intended For Pedestrians And As The Marchers Attempted To Cross, They Were Stopped Midway By Police. Hundreds Of Protesters Were Arrested, New York City, 1 October 2011
Eva Pohl 5 years ago
The portion of bridge is not intended for pedestrians for some good reason... A bit silly way to protest.
Roger Day 5 years ago
As I recall, the police directed the protesters to cross the bridge... then arrested them. It was a trap.
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A Protest Led By Students For Justice In Palestine At The University Of Maryland, College Park, 2009
Azure Adams 8 years ago
Learn your history. The US has distorted it due to Jewish-isaerli interests
Howard May 5 years ago
Learn your history. Israelis want peace. The Palestinians refuse to negotiate or accept Israel’s right to exist.
#53
A Woman Argues With Belarus Police Officers Blocking A Street During An Opposition Rally In Minsk, Belarus As Hundreds Of People Were Arrested Over Protests Against Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, 25 March 2017
frederic eeckman 8 years ago
I'm pretty sure she is not protesting but she just want to walk on that street...
Iyas AlQasem 5 years ago
16 Year old Ahed Tamimi, who was abducted and imprisoned by the Israeli military for punching a soldier who stormed her house after her cousin was killed. https://stepfeed.com/israeli-soldiers-just-arrested-this-iconic-teenage-palestinian-activist-1629 0x0-israel...2cfcdb.jpg 
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Chayma 8 years ago
Bring tears to my eyes because all theses woman fight for their right (those they are supposed to have since day one) or for the oppressed ppl. Heroines.
christina murray 8 years ago
i thought i was the only one who reacted like that. i'm at work rn, decided to scroll thru and damn i have chills. tears welling up and all. these women, every single one of them remind me why i bother trying or believing in change
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Ed Mo 8 years ago
This is what strength & courage looks like. Never, ever underestimate the power of women.
Jon Brewer 5 years ago
I've seen the video with the Palestinian. It looks a lot worse for her when you see it as a video and not just a screenshot.
Load More Replies... NoAssumedName 8 years ago
All I wished to see in my life time is PeaceLoveUnity&Respect that's not going to happen but I thank every woman,man and child that are fighting for what they think it's wrong in this (our) world... Peace to all ✌
Ben Smith 8 years ago
50 pictures...nearly 50 different movements. Which one are you talking about?
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Chayma 8 years ago
Bring tears to my eyes because all theses woman fight for their right (those they are supposed to have since day one) or for the oppressed ppl. Heroines.
christina murray 8 years ago
i thought i was the only one who reacted like that. i'm at work rn, decided to scroll thru and damn i have chills. tears welling up and all. these women, every single one of them remind me why i bother trying or believing in change
Load More Replies... Ed Mo 8 years ago
This is what strength & courage looks like. Never, ever underestimate the power of women.
Jon Brewer 5 years ago
I've seen the video with the Palestinian. It looks a lot worse for her when you see it as a video and not just a screenshot.
Load More Replies... NoAssumedName 8 years ago
All I wished to see in my life time is PeaceLoveUnity&Respect that's not going to happen but I thank every woman,man and child that are fighting for what they think it's wrong in this (our) world... Peace to all ✌
Ben Smith 8 years ago
50 pictures...nearly 50 different movements. Which one are you talking about?
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