World Protests https://canadianriley.com Canadian Riley From Parliament to You Independent Political News Blog Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:42:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://i0.wp.com/canadianriley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-canadian-riley.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 World Protests https://canadianriley.com 32 32 214541444 Dutch Farmer Protests – Police Shots Fired at Protest Tractors https://canadianriley.com/dutch-farmer-protests-police-shots-fired-at-protest-tractors/ https://canadianriley.com/dutch-farmer-protests-police-shots-fired-at-protest-tractors/?noamp=mobile#respond Sun, 10 Jul 2022 05:34:57 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=1162 Dutch Farmer Protests:

Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions have blocked roads and supermarket distribution centers for several days, sparking fears of food shortages.

The unrest among Dutch farmers was triggered by a government proposal to slash emissions of pollutants like nitrogen oxide and ammonia by 50 per cent by 2030. Provincial governments have been given a year to formulate plans to achieve the goal.

The reforms are expected to include reducing livestock and buying up some farms whose animals produce large amounts of ammonia. Farmers argue they are being unfairly targeted and are being given no perspective for their future.

Thousands of farmers have gathered in the central Netherlands to protest against the Dutch government’s plans to rein in emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, driving their tractors across the Netherlands and snarling traffic on major highways.

Farmers hooted their tractors’ horns as they drove onto the field, where a banner on a truck read, in Dutch: “What The Hague chooses is deeply sad for the farmer”, a reference to lawmakers in the city that houses the Netherlands’ parliament.

 

Dutch police shot at a tractor during a heated night of farm protests and detained three demonstrators, the latest incident in a string of protests against government plans to cut pollutant emissions that many farmers fear would hurt their livelihoods.  One of the tractor drivers is reported to be a 16 years old.

Police in northern Friesland said Wednesday that no one was hurt in the incident that involved warning shots and direct targeting of a tractor that broke free from a line. Police said there was an attempt to drive into their vehicles and officers; however videos captured shows that the tractor was driving away from the police.  Because shots were fired, an official investigation into the incident was started.

Holland Farmer Protests:

We are now also covering the International farmers protests and other protests.  These are developing stories and will be updated accordingly.  Whenever possible we will include video coverage.

]]> https://canadianriley.com/dutch-farmer-protests-police-shots-fired-at-protest-tractors/feed/ 0 1162 Sri Lanka’s President and Prime Minister to Step Down Over Tumultuous Economic Protests https://canadianriley.com/sri-lankas-president-and-prime-minister-to-step-down-over-tumultuous-economic-protests/ https://canadianriley.com/sri-lankas-president-and-prime-minister-to-step-down-over-tumultuous-economic-protests/?noamp=mobile#respond Sun, 10 Jul 2022 05:33:48 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=1172 Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister agreed on Saturday to resign after the country’s most chaotic day in months of political turmoil, with protesters storming both officials’ homes and setting fire to one of the buildings.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he will leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the Speaker of parliament said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa would step down on Wednesday.

Thousands of protesters entered the capital, Colombo, and swarmed into Rajapaksa’s fortified residence. Videos showed jubilant crowds splashing in the garden pool, lying on beds and using their cellphone cameras to capture the moment. Some made tea, while others issued statements from a conference room demanding that the president and prime minister go.

]]> https://canadianriley.com/sri-lankas-president-and-prime-minister-to-step-down-over-tumultuous-economic-protests/feed/ 0 1172 More Liberal Hypocrisy Melanie Joly the Right to Peaceful Protest be Respected Sri Lanka Protests https://canadianriley.com/more-liberal-hypocrisy-melanie-joly-the-right-to-peaceful-protest-be-respected-sri-lanka-protests/ https://canadianriley.com/more-liberal-hypocrisy-melanie-joly-the-right-to-peaceful-protest-be-respected-sri-lanka-protests/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:57:45 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=136 As Sri Lanka runs out of fuel, doctors and bankers protest ‘impossible situation’.

Doctors and bankers were among hundreds of Sri Lankans who marched to demand the government resolve a severe fuel shortage at the heart of the Indian Ocean island’s worst economic crisis in decades or step down.

Weeks of street demonstrations against cascading woes such as power cuts and shortages of food and medicine brought a change in government last month after nine people were killed and about 300 injured in protests.

More Liberal Hypocrisy: Liberal Member of Parliament Melanie Joly Tweeted Canada is deeply concerned about the deteriorating economic situation & civil unrest in Sri Lanka. It is essential that the right to peaceful protest be respected. We stand in solidarity with the peoples of the island during these difficult times. This wasn’t the case in Canada where Trudeau attacked Canadian’s fundamental rights.

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