RTÉ Ignoring Global Protests

s1ippy

Thousands defy authorities in France to protest in solidarity with George Floyd.

No cases reported again today in France after 338 yesterday, they are seeing some weird spikes.

Looks like it was just as violent as America but for some reason RTÉ aren't reporting it. I would have thought it's relevant news, seeing as they're in the same union as us. It would be like people in Idaho not knowing there are violent protests in Missouri.

There's nothing on RTÉ about the Amsterdam protest either, although that didn't get violent so maybe not as newsworthy anyway.

Meanwhile in France
https://twitter.com/YASMINAREBEL/status/1267880994155245568?s=09

https://twitter.com/JeromeRoos/status/1267909349453807616?s=19

Also Canada has stuff going on. Here's how to disarm a tear gas canister.
https://twitter.com/ramos_orbe/status/1267288066466689024?s=19

"Trudeau pauses for 21 seconds before addressing question about Trump's response to protesters" https://twitter.com/i/events/1267877170296184834

Is there some sort of RTÉ blackout on this to deter Irish people from getting involved in protests? Why is our state broadcaster not reporting this?

s1ippy

s1ippy wrote: »

Is there some sort of RTÉ blackout on this to deter Irish people from getting involved in protests?

Two words: social distancing.

s1ippy

s1ippy wrote: »

Is there some sort of RTÉ blackout on this to deter Irish people from getting involved in protests?

Why would we be protesting?

Atlantic Dawn

They have UK and US correspondants, anywhere else in the world it's copy and paste.

Rubberchikken

Two words - band wagon.

I don't watch rte, but I'm glad they're not shoving it down viewers throats.

Why the heck should they?

Who's going to remember any of the men involved in this issue in a months time?
What is protesting going to change?

If certain blacks want to change their lives then they need to leave criminality behind them, work on getting an education and get a job.

Stop whining about being ill-treated and start contributing to society.

s1ippy

There already was a protest and more planned that aren't possible to find using Google.

I'm not advocating the protests and I don't know anyone who is. It's just quite sinister that you have to dig around on Twitter and Facebook to find these current events in this country. I thought it might be of interest to other people.

They would have been all over this like a hot turd this time last year.

Propaganda takes precedence over any hierarchy of victimhood.

You Must obey

punisher5112

What needs reporting is these BLM thugs are actually murdering their own....

Retired 77 black police captain murdered on the streets by looters grabbing used TV sets.....


Bizarre that life means nothing.

https://www-click2houston-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.click2houston.com/news/national/2020/06/02/police-retired-st-louis-police-captain-killed-amid-unrest/?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&outputType=amp&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15911413236942&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.click2houston.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2F2020%2F06%2F02%2Fpolice-retired-st-louis-police-captain-killed-amid-unrest%2F

s1ippy

I'd ask that the mods allow this thread to stay open so that Irish people with an interest in these protests can post current updates about the global situation. It'll probably just get completely overrun with people commentating about how black people are the engineers of their own persecution or whatever plainly medieval sh!t people tell themselves to justify systemic violence against people whose race isn't theirs, but it would be useful to be able to share updates about the protests around the world, seeing as it doesn't look like they're going to stop any time soon.

Also two weeks from now when global cases have grown exponentially, we can look back and see why.

punisher5112

s1ippy wrote: »

I'd ask that the mods allow this thread to stay open so that Irish people with an interest in these protests can post current updates about the global situation. It'll probably just get completely overrun with people commentating about how black people are the engineers of their own persecution or whatever plainly medieval sh!t people tell themselves to justify systemic violence against people whose race isn't theirs, but it would be useful to be able to share updates about the protests around the world, seeing as it doesn't look like they're going to stop any time soon.

Also two weeks from now when global cases have grown exponentially, we can look back and see why.

Wtf are you on about.....

This BLM movement is absolutely the biggest load of bull I've ever come across and in its run more have ended up dead.

It's an absolute sh1t show.

Donald Trump's catchphrase is right enough: "Fake News"

Not even reporting it is far more worse and insidious than putting a partly or wholly incorrect slant on it.

s1ippy

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1267974065077260288?s=20

Madeleine Birchfield

When is the last time the RTE has reported on the Yellow Vests in France?

jimmycrackcorm

s1ippy wrote: »

Thousands defy authorities in France to protest in solidarity with George Floyd.

Aren't the French protesting permanently about everything and anything? - French protests aren't newsworthy any longer.

s1ippy

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

s1ippy wrote: »

Thousands defy authorities in France to protest in solidarity with George Floyd.

Aren't the French protesting permanently about everything and anything? - French protests aren't newsworthy any longer.

I've posted about five other countries with protests. When does this breaking story happening across the planet become "newsworthy" by RTÉ's estimation, do you think?

Madeleine Birchfield wrote: »

When is the last time the RTE has reported on the Yellow Vests in France?

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2020/0128/1111523-police-and-firefighters-clash-at-paris-protest/
Seemingly January.

According to this link that I found two pages deep into a Google search, there are also protests across Australia and Sweden and in other parts of The Netherlands like The Hague.

Berlin and London too.

_Kaiser_

As David Bowie once sang, this is not America.

Yes what happened is wrong and the officers involved should be prosecuted to the full extent of their laws... But it's an American issue, linked to deep rooted racial and social problems going back generations that have little to no relevance here.

We need to stop taking stuff from twitter, Facebook and 24/7 news and trying to transplant it to countries and cultures that are nowhere near the same or facing the same issues.

It's like the obsession with Trump's every tweet or interview. 99% of the time it will never affect how anyone in Ireland goes about their lives yet you'd think he was the president of the country not Michael D.

Far more important things to be dealing with and protesting about (if one is so inclined) at home than what goes on thousands of miles away

s1ippy

Whatever about the motives, or your implication that Ireland who have no issues of race inequality to take priority (just after all the direct provision scandals around coronavirus, right so), it is a fact that people are taking to the streets in these foreign countries. Our domestic news that is paid for by my tax has a responsibility to document it and make it visible to us. As I said previously, I had to dig through pages of Google search results to find the articles posted here.

I also found reports of protests in New Zealand and Italy.

Flickerfusion

Is it happening on the Merrion Road or the Stillorgan Dual Carriageway ?

If not, the extension lead doesn't reach there so it's not news.

RTE can sometimes come across like local television I find, even with Irish issues. Perhaps we overly on BBC, Sky and CNN etc to provide international news, so RTE just doesn't really bother?

They can also really fail to contextualise global stories sometimes. It always feels like international news just isn't very analysed by them, unless there's an very direct Irish linkage to it e.g. EU stories, Brexit etc.

Also they really aren't great at the whole broadening and depending coverage of Irish society. When you look at RTE programming now, it's more or less the same kind of spread of presenters and stories you'd have seen 30 or 40 years ago, yet the country has changed demographically in that period. It should be well beyond tokenism at this stage.

John Doe1

Its the cringiest thing ever.

There are a million other more pressing issues that Irish people should be protesting rather than the wrongful death of a random Black man with a criminal history in America.

Its just American media obsessed teens/early 20's eejits who want to project how "Woke" they are and can post pics of it on Instagram/Snapchat.

_Kaiser_

s1ippy wrote: »

Whatever about the motives, or your implication that Ireland who have no issues of race inequality to take priority (just after all the direct provision scandals around coronavirus, right so), it is a fact that people are taking to the streets in these foreign countries. Our domestic news that is paid for by my tax has a responsibility to document it and make it visible to us. As I said previously, I had to dig through pages of Google search results to find the articles posted here.

I also found reports of protests in New Zealand and Italy.

The only scandal around direct provision is the level of fraudulent claims and abuse of the Irish taxpayers generosity.

This story, while tragic, has no relevance here beyond a brief segment on the news. We have covid, economic armageddon, government formation, and other issues far more worthy of airtime.

As you rightly point out, there's a whole Internet and American news networks out there if you'd "like to know more"

Arghus

s1ippy wrote: »

Is there some sort of RTÉ blackout on this to deter Irish people from getting involved in protests? Why is our state broadcaster not reporting this?

But, there was loads of coverage on yesterday's march in Dublin across RTÉ news and the Web. It was pretty much the top story?

They've been covering the events in the states too.

Chris_Heilong

People in this part of the world dont know what is really happening in the US, Sounds like people just looking for an excuse to riot and loot under the guise of a noble cause..

Del2005

s1ippy wrote: »

Whatever about the motives, or your implication that Ireland who have no issues of race inequality to take priority (just after all the direct provision scandals around coronavirus, right so), it is a fact that people are taking to the streets in these foreign countries. Our domestic news that is paid for by my tax has a responsibility to document it and make it visible to us. As I said previously, I had to dig through pages of Google search results to find the articles posted here.

I also found reports of protests in New Zealand and Italy.

Why aren't you complaining about RTE not reporting the numerous massacres that happen in Africa nearly every week or the fact that the President of the Philippines has given his police the power to execute anyone they want and claim that they are drug dealers. Or is it just the latest social media fad that you want reported?

coinop

s1ippy wrote: »

It's just quite sinister that you have to dig around on Twitter and Facebook to find these current events in this country. I thought it might be of interest to other people.

By posting links to the Irish protests you are promoting illegal gatherings. The government has clearly stated that they are investigating the illegal gatherings over the weekend yet you continue to advocate for more, thereby endangering Irish lives in the midst of a pandemic. Forget reporting your thread to the mods, I have taken screenshots of your posts and will be contacting the Gardai. It's standard procedure for them to subpoena your ISP to get your personal details. You are not merely participating in the protests, you are organising them. I imagine that will come with a heavier sentence as the justice system will want to make an example out of you.

whisky_galore

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

As David Bowie once sang, this is not America.

Yes what happened is wrong and the officers involved should be prosecuted to the full extent of their laws... But it's an American issue, linked to deep rooted racial and social problems going back generations that have little to no relevance here.

We need to stop taking stuff from twitter, Facebook and 24/7 news and trying to transplant it to countries and cultures that are nowhere near the same or facing the same issues.

It's like the obsession with Trump's every tweet or interview. 99% of the time it will never affect how anyone in Ireland goes about their lives yet you'd think he was the president of the country not Michael D.

Far more important things to be dealing with and protesting about (if one is so inclined) at home than what goes on thousands of miles away

Indeed, although now is hardly the time for anything other than virtual protest.

The public has largely been very sensible with CV19 up to now, let's not throw all that away on a protest, let's be honest, which is unlikely to get noticed outside of Ireland let alone picked up on by any outlet in the U.S.

s1ippy

coinop wrote: »

By posting links to the Irish protests you are promoting illegal gatherings. The government has clearly stated that they are investigating the illegal gatherings over the weekend yet you continue to advocate for more, thereby endangering Irish lives in the midst of a pandemic. Forget reporting your thread to the mods, I have taken screenshots of your posts and will be contacting the Gardai. It's standard procedure for them to subpoena your ISP to get your personal details. You are not merely participating in the protests, you are organising them. I imagine that will come with a heavier sentence as the justice system will want to make an example out of you.

Repeatedly I've said that I think that there are better ways of doing this than to gather in groups because of the pandemic. I won't be attending the protests just as I haven't left the house generally in three months, I think it's idiotic to be gathering at this point and I've said so repeatedly in every medium.

NIMAN

punisher5112 wrote: »

What needs reporting is these BLM thugs are actually murdering their own....

Retired 77 black police captain murdered on the streets by looters grabbing used TV sets.....


Bizarre that life means nothing.

https://www-click2houston-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.click2houston.com/news/national/2020/06/02/police-retired-st-louis-police-captain-killed-amid-unrest/?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&outputType=amp&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15911413236942&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.click2houston.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2F2020%2F06%2F02%2Fpolice-retired-st-louis-police-captain-killed-amid-unrest%2F

Nothing says BLM more than getting yourself a used TV.

CruelSummer

Does anyone else here think these protests have been amplified by the lockdown? Because I do. People have been cooped up for months, once there was something to become outraged at, it that took off like a rocket.
I just wish the protesters here would protest at our current elected officials abysmal failure to reopen, for people they know and love not getting screened for cancer...issues that are here right now in this country.

Silentcorner

John Doe1 wrote: »

Its the cringiest thing ever.

There are a million other more pressing issues that Irish people should be protesting rather than the wrongful death of a random Black man with a criminal history in America.

Its just American media obsessed teens/early 20's eejits who want to project how "Woke" they are and can post pics of it on Instagram/Snapchat.

There was about 2 dozen "empowered" types who were all in their 30s/40s gathered in Limerick City centre on Monday, all taking the knee and chanting "Black Lives Matter"...they looked like they were in a cult...bizarre!!!

CrankyHaus

CruelSummer wrote: »

Does anyone else here think these protests have been amplified by the lockdown? Because I do. People have been cooped up for months, once there was something to become outraged at, it that took off like a rocket.

The lockdown and the very sharp rise in US unemployment as a result.

NIMAN

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

This story, while tragic, has no relevance here beyond a brief segment on the news. We have covid, economic armageddon, government formation, and other issues far more worthy of airtime.

I wonder why this particular death/murder/killing has had such an effect?

Black men have been killed by US police forces on a regular basis for years, but why has this one got Irish people marching instead of all the others?

Is CV19 playing into all this? Do people just want to get out and move around like the good old days?

MeMen2_MoRi_

NIMAN wrote: »

I wonder why this particular death/murder/killing has had such an effect?

Black men have been killed by US police forces on a regular basis for years, but why has this one got Irish people marching instead of all the others?

Is CV19 playing into all this? Do people just want to get out and move around like the good old days?

I'm guessing here, would it be that there's a 10 minute long video of it, the attitudes of two of the killers that were on display for all to see, and pleas of the people looking on and their pleas being completely ignored and when they got a bit too "rowdy" at seeing the death of George they got threats of being peppered sprayed, the POS willfully obstructing the paramedic when he attempted to take a pulse of a dead man.

NIMAN

MeMen2_MoRi_ wrote: »

I'm guessing here, would it be that there's a 10 minute long video of it, the attitudes of two of the killers that were on display for all to see, and pleas of the people looking on and their pleas being completely ignored and when they got a bit too "rowdy" at seeing the death of George they got threats of being peppered sprayed, the POS willfully obstructing the paramedic when he attempted to take a pulse of a dead man.

You're probably right, I would have thought because of the video, but to be honest I have only seen a 10sec clip of it, would have no interest watching it all as it must be distressing.

jmayo

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

s1ippy wrote: »

Thousands defy authorities in France to protest in solidarity with George Floyd.

Aren't the French protesting permanently about everything and anything? - French protests aren't newsworthy any longer.

And the French farmers closed down Paris a while back and I don't recall RTE showing much of it.
Neither did they cover farmers closing down The Hague or Berlin.

And a hell of a lot of people in this country have more in common with the aims of those protests than protesting about the police forces of the fooking US.

People nowadays are flutes.
What fooking effects do people in some other country hope to achieve by protesting outside a US embassy, and then throwing in a bit of rioting or looting in case of Paris ?

Yeah the country ruled by a muppet who gives the two fingers to his own citizens is going to give two shytes about a bunch of muppets in Dublin, Paris, Auckland, Stockholm, etc.


And all at a time when we are meant to social distance to prevent spread of very infectious disease.

The human race is getting fooking stupidier as time goes on.

walshb

In the world of social media people just want to be liked, approved, quoted and to be made feel valued and special....

99.9 percent of those marching couldn't give a flying fook about George Floyd or policing in a country of 340 million people thousands of miles away...

A large amount likely wouldn't even be able to point out the U.S. on a globe....

We just need to, unfortunately, accept that this is the world we live in today.

Making out what happened to George Floyd as being the same as what was happening in the states 60 + years ago is the crock of **** that is being peddled.

Racism exists everywhere, and always will. It's the not so nice side of human nature, but it's still a part of it.

Black people in the U.S. have exactly the same rights and opportunities in law as any other color in the U.S. There is no legal discrimination against black people in the legal system in the U.S.

What black people choose to do with these rights and opportunities is the real question. And only they, like any other color can determine and answer this...

CrankyHaus

Popular protest in other countries contributed significantly to ending Apartheid.

So protests in another country can count.

Obviously protests in other countries during a pandemic lockdown are reckless and selfish

Edgware

s1ippy wrote: »

Thousands defy authorities in France to protest in solidarity with George Floyd.

No cases reported again today in France after 338 yesterday, they are seeing some weird spikes.

Looks like it was just as violent as America but for some reason RTÉ aren't reporting it. I would have thought it's relevant news, seeing as they're in the same union as us. It would be like people in Idaho not knowing there are violent protests in Missouri.

There's nothing on RTÉ about the Amsterdam protest either, although that didn't get violent so maybe not as newsworthy anyway.

Meanwhile in France
https://twitter.com/YASMINAREBEL/status/1267880994155245568?s=09

https://twitter.com/JeromeRoos/status/1267909349453807616?s=19

Also Canada has stuff going on. Here's how to disarm a tear gas canister.
https://twitter.com/ramos_orbe/status/1267288066466689024?s=19

"Trudeau pauses for 21 seconds before addressing question about Trump's response to protesters" https://twitter.com/i/events/1267877170296184834

Is there some sort of RTÉ blackout on this to deter Irish people from getting involved in protests? Why is our state broadcaster not reporting this?

Ya.
The U.S. networks did a real good job covering our Water Charges protests.
R.T.E. has covered the protests now lets get back and find out who is responsible for the nursing home deaths i.e. something relevant to Ireland instead of giving the authorities a free run

Melanchthon

Edgware wrote: »

Ya.
The U.S. networks did a real good job covering our Water Charges protests.
R.T.E. has covered the protests now lets get back and find out who is responsible for the nursing home deaths i.e. something relevant to Ireland instead of giving the authorities a free run

Isn't the issue that RTE isn't covering the protests that should be more relevant to Ireland, e.g the Paris one but concentrating on the USA stuff that's actually less relevant.

It's one of those contradictions, everyone is somewhere like RTE meant to be very pro-EU and have common "European" spirit and goals, yet stuff happening in a state capitol in middle America is considered more important than Paris, arguably the most important city in the EU???

whisky_galore

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Popular protest in other countries contributed significantly to ending Apartheid.

So protests in another country can count.

Obviously protests in other countries during a pandemic lockdown are reckless and selfish

SA was turned into a pariah state, very few countries wanted to be seen to do business with them publicly, economic sanctions, boycotting sports events, not protest on their own.

Now if only that could happen with the US or (lol) China.

biko

None of the marches seems to be much about George Floyd himself anymore.

I saw something on RTE news yesterday so it's not like they're blanking it.
In fact OP himself links to RTE reports while claiming they are ignored...

s1ippy wrote: »

Is there some sort of RTÉ blackout on this to deter Irish people from getting involved in protests? Why is our state broadcaster not reporting this?

Top tip, search like this
george floyd site:rte.ie
https://www.google.com/search?q=george floyd site:rte.ie

jmayo

whisky_galore wrote: »

SA was turned into a pariah state, very few countries wanted to be seen to do business with them publicly, economic sanctions, boycotting sports events, not protest on their own.

Now if only that could happen with the US or (lol) China.

How the fook do you expect that to happen.
All the cool with it folks need to be able to buy the latest iPhone so that they can twat each other about how bad America is and how bad Trump is.
All the while a lot of the flutes want to mimic what is worst about American consumerism, the likes of those reality hoors with the big ar**es.
Never forget it was reality tv that gave trump the platform he ultimately used to land the White House.

jmayo

biko wrote: »

None of the marches seems to be much about George Floyd himself anymore.

I saw something on RTE news yesterday so it's not like they're blanking it.

Turns out he wasn't that nice a guy in reality.

Yet again the media and the righteous have hooked their bandwagon to someone they normally wouldn't care less about and someone that turns out to be an inconvenient victim and poor choice as martyr.
So they will try and leave him out of the picture and concentrate on the "bigger issue" as time goes on.

s1ippy

Just watching the point sail over the heads of posters in this thread depresses the hell out of me. Looks like the schools being closed has really damaged people's levels of literacy and comprehension.

RTÉ aren't reporting the global protests was my point. And then someone does a search for the US one to demonstrate that they did report on that, and another supposedly reports me to the Gardaí because apparently we're not allowed to discuss external news, then many posters use it as a platform to express how they feel black people deserve to be discriminated against because there aren't enough places to do that online apparently.

London today:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1290729/london-black-lives-matter-protest-george-floyd-death-US-protest-hyde-park

_Kaiser_

s1ippy wrote: »

Just watching the point sail over the heads of posters in this thread depresses the hell out of me. Looks like the schools being closed has really damaged people's levels of literacy and comprehension.

RTÉ aren't reporting the global protests was my point. And then someone does a search for the US one to demonstrate that they did report on that, and another supposedly reports me to the Gardaí because apparently we're not allowed to discuss external news, then many posters use it as a platform to express how they feel black people deserve to be discriminated against because there aren't enough places to do that online apparently.

London today:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1290729/london-black-lives-matter-protest-george-floyd-death-US-protest-hyde-park

I still don't see the problem here. We live in a world where info from any corner of the planet is available 24x7 at the touch of a button. If you (or anyone) is that interested in what reaction this has caused in France, or the UK, or China or New Zealand it's all there for you.

It hardly needs expanded coverage on our limited airtime national news programmes given it didn't happen here, didn't involve an Irish citizen, and has no bearing on racial relations in Ireland.

Maybe most people (outside of Twitter and social media) just don't care as much as you do? Some of the radio shows do I grant you, but then that's partly because they're obsessed with all things Trump and using it as a stick to beat him with. As I said, you'd think the guy was OUR president the way some in this country go on about him.

I can't say I've any real interest in the story myself if I'm blunt about it. It shouldn't have happened, those responsible should be prosecuted, but he wasn't the first, unfortunately won't be the last and the social issues over there are something that need a lot more than knee-jerk outrage.

s1ippy

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/black-lives-matter-protest-planned-for-dublin-is-cancelled-1.4269763%3fmode=amp

Have to say I'm quite glad that it's cancelled. Americans online were saying that it would be much safer and more effective to keep doing online work to promote the cause. One on Reddit even said that it would go almost entirely unnoticed and wouldn't be worth it. Any Americans I know have not attended the ones in their own cities because they don't want to catch Covid-19.

https://twitter.com/Niallofcork/status/1268153320729972737?s=20

s1ippy

Statue of slave trader Edward Colston pulled down during Bristol demonstrations

https://twitter.com/i/events/1269642861122744321

https://twitter.com/bbcrb/status/1269642592247001088?s=19

They dragged it down to the water and chucked it in. Apparently locals had been campaigning for decades to get rid of it. Loads of streets are named after him as well so they might be changing that too.

Amsterdam
https://twitter.com/uhsleepbeats/status/1267505814090264576?s=19

Here are all the stories RTÉ have reported for the week. There's very little about the global situation.
https://www.google.ie/search?q=%22RTE.ie%22+protests&safe=off&tbs=sbd:1,qdr:w&tbm=nws&prmd=niv&source=lnt&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb0MT5hvDpAhXDoXEKHYg7C3kQpwUIIA&biw=360&bih=464&dpr=3

Here are the total search results on RTE.ie for the past 24 hours.



Imagine if you relied on them for your news, you'd be completely in the dark.

CrankyHaus

s1ippy wrote: »

Statue of slave trader Edward Colston pulled down during Bristol demonstrations

https://twitter.com/i/events/1269642861122744321

https://twitter.com/bbcrb/status/1269642592247001088?s=19

They dragged it down to the water and chucked it in. Apparently locals had been campaigning for decades to get rid of it.

Actually a clear majority favoured keeping it, when the issue was last polled in 2014.

I think the reason you won't see things like this prominently reported is not the reason you think.

s1ippy

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Actually a clear majority favoured keeping it, when the issue was last polled in 2014.

The Bristol post polled its readers, not the same thing as a poll of the population.

CrankyHaus

s1ippy wrote: »

The Bristol post polled its readers, not the same thing as a poll of the population.

If you have any better measure of public opinion on the issue by all means enlighten us.

s1ippy

No prob, the public opinion is that they pulled the statue down and chucked it in the harbour.

Rome today
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-protests-murder-of-george-floyd.html

Madrid
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/english.elpais.com/society/2020-06-07/in-wake-of-george-floyd-death-thousands-take-to-madrid-streets-to-protest-against-racism.html%3foutputType=amp

Paris
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Protests-against-police-violence-and-alleged-racism-have-been-continuing-in-France-this-weekend

London, Tokyo, Sydney
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/thousands-defy-coronavirus-bans-take-knee-george-floyd-protests-around-n1226571

Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Frankfurt
https://twitter.com/FinalJudgement/status/1269318673568804865?s=19

Fines for people who protested in Northern Ireland yesterday
https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2020-06-07/police-fine-protesters-at-anti-racism-rallies-in-ni/

Can't wait to get out to the shops tomorrow anyway.

golfball37

I think the protests in Hong Kong are far more important. In America despite its problems they have rights when it comes to protests, ditto Europe. Civil rights we take for granted are been eroded in Hong Kong