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Protesting against George W. Bush in 2008. This is a list of protests and protest movements in the United Kingdom.Protest in the UK has concerned issues such as suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, parliamentary reform from the Chartists to the present day, poverty, wages and working conditions, fuel prices, war, human rights, immigration (both for and against), fathers' rights ...
Protests of around 15,000 took place in Bergen and Trondheim, and 10,000 in Stavanger. Small protests also took place in at least 30 towns across the country. At the rally in Oslo the vice-chair of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) spoke from the platform claiming that "Bush only cares about American oil interests". [13]
On March 10, 2003, nine days before the invasion of Iraq, the Dixie Chicks performed at the Shepherd's Bush Empire theatre in London, England. It was the first concert of their Top of the World tour in support of their sixth album, Home. [7]
The 2011 anti-cuts protest in London, also known as the March for the Alternative, was a demonstration held in central London on 26 March 2011. Organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), it was a protest march against planned public spending cuts by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government that was formed in May 2010.
Anti-war rallies, environmental demonstrations, and civil rights marches were among the different types of protests that took place during the period from 2001 to 2009.These protests challenged Bush's foreign and domestic policies, particularly the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the controversial use of torture and other tactics in the War ...
George Bush's state visit to the UK was met with peaceful anti-war protests in London, attracting 100,000 (police estimate) to 200,000 (organisers' estimate) people, and culminating in the toppling of an effigy of Bush in Trafalgar Square. [68]
Demonstration in Warsaw against the 2004 World Economic Forum. This article lists significant demonstrations by the anti-globalization movement against corporate globalization since 1999, including the convergence of anti-globalization actions with opposition to the United States-led Iraq War beginning in 2003 and continuing through the end of George W. Bush's presidency in 2009.
2010: UK student protests against increases in student fees and public sector cuts. 2011: Anti-cuts protest in London against government public spending cuts. 2011: England riots, initially in London, following the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham; 2017: Rioting outside Forest Gate police station following the Death of Edson Da Costa.