A group of organizations calling themselves the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition is demanding that the bank end its relationship with ICE, specifically by halting its financial ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group, prison corporations that work on behalf of the federal agency.
The letter accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and said Eurovision should not 'whitewash and normalise' the actions of the country. The letter called the EBU 'hypocritical' for banning Russia from Eurovision but not Israel, and said that those who had signed the letter 'refuse to be silent'.
As of April 16, the International Energy Agency reported that Europe has around six weeks left of jet fuel amid the ongoing war on Iran. This comes on the heels of a seven-day long blockade of major roadways by a decentralized coalition of farmers, truckers, agricultural contractors, and others in protest of skyrocketing fuel prices in Ireland.
The protests, dubbed No Kings, took place at about 2,100 sites nationwide, from big cities to small towns, with a coalition of more than 100 groups.
Polanski told the crowd: Go back to your communities, to the community centres, to your trade unions, to your friends, to your neighbours. We must organise in our communities. Local elections are coming in just a few weeks' time, he added. We will defeat hate. It's time to make hope normal again.
Rape survivor turned feminist campaigner Gisèle Pelicot, along with her daughter Caroline Darian, led the march in Paris, saying: "We will never give up". Her daughter added: "I am very honoured to be here with my mother, who gives a real message of hope to all victims in France."
The demonstration gathered at the shelter in the northeast of the capital where the man, El Hacen Diarra, 35, had been living and in front of which he was violently arrested by police on the night of January 14th. Video filmed by neighbours, shared on social media, showed a policeman punching what appears to be a man on the ground as another officer stands by and watches.
The Palestine Coalition which includes groups such as the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will be marching from Russell Square, down to the Strand, past Trafalgar Square and into Whitehall. The Metropolitan Police said the procession must not start before 12.45pm and the rally in Whitehall must end by 6pm. The Ukip march will go from Marble Arch, along Oxford Street, down Charing Cross Road and into Trafalgar Square.