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Posts Tagged ‘protest’
The times are they a-changin’?
It was almost twenty years ago that my Japanese union colleagues and I took out a visiting Chinese counterpart to a professional baseball game in Tokyo. She showed a great interest in the “ōendan”. “Ōendan” is literally “cheering squad” or “cheering section” and Wikipedia explains it well. It is a Japanese sports rallying team similar [...]
Happy birthday Monica
It has been more than a month since I last met Monica. I visited Oslo in mid-October to address a rally held in solidarity with her dismissal case. That day – 10 October – we called upon the affiliates of our federation worldwide to stand behind her in a global day of action (Top photo [...]
Hands that will free Burma
It was October 2007 and the biggest pro-democracy demonstration for Burma in the UK up-to-date. The photos that I uploaded onto Flickr attracted more than 4,000 hits without much publicity. Here is a selection from that day. At Tate Gallery where the protest march started, I bought a campaign T-shirt and sent it to my [...]
