A demonstration against NSA mass surveillance in Washington, DC, in October 2013.
Sōhyō's best-known political tactic, begun in 1955, was the annual spring struggle, which was an intensive campaign of street demonstrations, mass meetings, and other pressure tactics.
It's a dramatic demonstration that mass popular action can make a "Yuge" difference.
The Haining demonstrations follow a mass demonstration last month in Dalian, in northeast China, in which 12,000 people protested a new chemical plant that produces paraxylene, a toxic chemical used to make polyester products.
A demonstration with a larger target mass will determine if this method of production is comparable to other techniques.
Officials with Madison Teachers Inc. and the Wisconsin Education Association Council urged teachers to show up to work today, despite a call for a mass demonstration this morning.
Wednesday's demonstration, a "mass march for decolonisation", was part of the continuing campaign for the removal of Oriel College's statue of Cecil Rhodes, the Victorian imperialist who supported apartheid-style measures in southern Africa.
Recently, he said, he had proudly joined tens of thousands of others waving a pink pompom during a mass demonstration in honor of the leader.
Yet the Palme d'Or was awarded on a day when protesters took to the streets in Paris for a mass demonstration against a new law that has legalised gay marriage in France, and after a period marked by homophobic violence.
In Freetown, the capital, the rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, who is widely regarded in the West as a war criminal, slipped out of sight during a mass demonstration that turned into a deadly shootout near his compound.
