In comments made exclusively to Breitbart London, political commentator Andy Ngo said the disparity in media coverage of lockdown protests will lead to more Antifa violence, as at least 350 people were arrested in Berlin after alt-left radicals clashed with police on Friday.
People across the nation are taking part in “reopen” protests, demanding for governors to lift strict measures put in place over coronavirus.
According to Iranian resistance groups, a new mass protest movement is gaining steam in every corner of Iran, with people hitting the streets to protest the regime’s poor economic policies and hideous bungling of the coronavirus crisis.
“MAGA May Day” freedom rallies are slated to pop up across America Friday, May 1, aimed to send a message to “local and state government tyrants” that it is time to safely and responsibly reopen the country.
Wayne Allyn Root is leading a drive-through protest caravan while abiding by coronavirus social distancing guidelines in Las Vegas on Friday.
A Virginia resident attending the shutdown protest in Richmond on Wednesday told Breitbart News that he fears his friends will become alcoholics due to consistently “overdrinking” during the state’s shutdown, adding that it could have devastating long-lasting effects.
Jenee Welsh, a small business owner attending the Reopen Virginia Rally in the state’s capital on Wednesday, called on Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to “abort” the state’s stay-at-home order.
Virginians are convening in the state’s capital on Wednesday to send a pointed message to Gov. Ralph Northam (D), urging him to reexamine what they call his “draconian, autocratic, administrative orders” and demanding him to end the state’s stay-at-home order and reopen Virginia.
Members of the National Nurses United (NNU), the largest registered nurses union in the country, are demonstrating at the White House on Tuesday to honor nurses on the frontlines battling the Chinese coronavirus, some of whom have lost their lives, and to demand President Trump to “use his authority under the Defense Production Act (DPA) to order the mass production of PPE.”
A pastor attending the economic shutdown protest in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday said that Gov. Tom Wolf (D) is a “tyrant” who has “absolutely exceeded his authority.”
A Pennsylvania mom attending the economic shutdown protest in Harrisburg told Breitbart News on Monday that she had to get a babysitter to watch her son so she could continue working during the coronavirus shutdown, stressing that it is her “right to choose to work.”
A business owner attending the protest at the Pennsylvania State Capitol on Monday told Breitbart News that businesses are “unjustifiably” and “unconstitutionally” closed down as a result of the drastic measures taken by local officials to combat the Chinese coronavirus.
Governors have denied reports that they instructed Facebook to remove pages promoting protests against strict stay-at-home orders, saying that the company reached out to them — not the other way around.
A furloughed Ohioan attending an “Open Our Ohio” protest at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Saturday told Breitbart News that the “cure is going to be worse than the disease” if people are not able to go back to work.
Small businesses will die if Minnesota’s shutdown does not end soon, a protester outside Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) residence in St. Paul said Friday.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) residence on Friday to demand the end of the stay-at-home orders barring owners of businesses deemed “nonessential” from earning their livelihoods, including a self-employed hair stylist who told Breitbart News that she has been out of work for over a month.
Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) is planning to attend a protest in support of First Amendment rights in North Carolina after measures were taken to shut down businesses and gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Hong Kong’s new fire chief Joseph Leung on Wednesday dismissed criticism that he referred to pro-democracy protesters as “cockroaches” during a lecture at the Fire and Ambulance Services Academy in October.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said the Michigan protesters at the state capitol in Lansing, MI on Wednesday who opposed the stay-at-home order she issued in response to the coronavirus pandemic are being irresponsible by likely “spreading COVID-19.”
During an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Dean Obeidallah Show” on Thursday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said the protest at the state capitol in Lansing, MI, on Wednesday was “a political protest.
Protesters gathered outside of Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s (D) press briefing on Wednesday, shouting, “We want to work.”
Four Michigan county sheriffs said in a letter on Wednesday that they will not strictly enforce Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) aggressive stay-at-home orders, emphasizing their oath to “uphold and defend the Michigan Constitution, as well as the U.S. Constitution, and to ensure that your God-given rights are not violated.”
Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield told Breitbart News that the state government must change its approach to addressing coronavirus and its impact on the economy, as frustration bubbled over in the state’s capital in the form of a mass protest Wednesday.
A Michigan resident attending Wednesday’s protest in Lansing, Michigan, on Wednesday sent a pointed message to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, pointing to the massive crowd of protesters in the area and reminding her that those people will vote in November.
A Michigan man attending the vehicle protest in Lansing told Breitbart News that he was laid off as a result of the economic shutdown spurred by the coronavirus pandemic and stated that he had to file for unemployment for the first time in his life as a result.
A brutal assault by Hong Kong police against protesters and bystanders at the Prince Edward station of Hong Kong’s MTR rail system on August 31, 2019, was one of the milestone events of the protest movement.
Reuters on Friday reported on a poll that showed support growing for the pro-democracy protest movement in Hong Kong, even as the coronavirus epidemic makes it extremely difficult for them to hold protest rallies.
A huge protest march swept out of China’s Hubei province on Friday, with thousands of angry residents pouring across a bridge into neighboring Jiangxi province and clashing with police. The capital city of Hubei province is Wuhan, ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic.
Hundreds of Hong Kong residents attended an event on Sunday to commemorate the death of Chan Yin-lam, a 15-year-old student who died under mysterious circumstances in September.
Iran’s government has been criticized (and occasionally protested) for diverting funds away from domestic priorities to pay for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization with lavishly-financed terrorist proxy forces across the Middle East.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, currently presiding over the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in the world, rejected American offers of medical assistance on Wednesday and took the opportunity to complain about U.S. sanctions against Iran’s nuclear weapons program and terrorist activities.
Protesters in Iraq, coming up on half a year of demonstrating against the corruption and incompetence of their government, were not reassured by Baghdad’s handling of the coronavirus. Furious that their disorganized and thoroughly looted government lacks the money and human resources to mount an effective defense, the protesters are setting up their own screening and treatment facilities, distributing information on how to prevent the spread of the disease, and giving out medical masks.
Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Allawi withdrew his candidacy on Sunday, roughly a month after he was nominated for the post.
Pro-democracy Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was arrested on Friday for participating in an “unauthorized assembly” in August. Lai’s arrest was greeted with international outrage and interpreted as a dark omen for the future of freedom in Hong Kong. Chinese state media countered with a tornado of propaganda that portrayed Lai as a monstrous symbol of lawlessness whose arrest was a vital step toward subduing the long-running protest movement.
Bernie Sanders has styled his campaign as a mass protest movement. There is no reason to expect he will dial back the radicalism if he wins the White House.
Protesters fought with police in New Delhi, India, on Monday over India’s highly controversial citizenship law. A policeman and two civilians identified as Muslims were killed just hours before the arrival of visiting U.S. President Donald Trump.
Climate change alarmist protestors marched through the streets of London under the banner of Extinction Rebellion, culminating in a ‘Discobedience’ dance and ‘Die-In’ outside Scotland Yard police headquarters in London. Carrying Socialist Worker signs saying “climate refugees welcome” and “system
Dominican armed forces hurled tear gas canisters at protesters congregated before Santo Domingo’s Central Electoral Board (JCE) on Tuesday, alarming a largely peaceful crowd united to demand free and fair elections after the JCE abruptly canceled the results of this weekend’s national polls.
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Hong Kong over the weekend to protest plans for establishing 18 treatment centers for the Wuhan coronavirus in residential neighborhoods. Some of the demonstrations escalated into clashes with the police after participants tried to block off roads and vandalize clinics.
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, on Sunday called for a boycott of American goods to protest President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan.
