Sisters Uncut's disruptive direct action at the premiere of Suffragette acted as a welcome reminder of the continuity between their struggle and ours, and stopped celebration tipping into complacency.
Neath Port Talbot Council's head of economic development Gordon Andrews called it a "three day non-stop celebration".
Across the country, on radio and other mediums, there was no stopping celebrations of Nelson Mandela Day and the outpouring of goodwill towards each other, the poor and the needy.
Puerto Ricans cannot vote in the general election, but that did not stop the celebration here.
Suzuki said he attempted to stop the celebration before it started so the game could continue uninterrupted.
But that should not stop a celebration of the progress that has been made over the past decade, during which time deaths from malaria have fallen by 20% (see chart).
The Pirates scored on a dunk to halt the bleeding with 27 seconds left, but that did little to stop the celebration on the Terriers' sideline of the first NCAA tournament win in program history.
At a recent stop in Celebration, Fla., a voter asked about this quotation from him in his high school yearbook: "The less I do today, the more I do tomorrow".
"Stop the celebration and integrate back into the communities where people don't have these rights," Lyons said.
"There's a point at which rock and pop stop being celebrations of youth, rebellion and forward-thinking," he said, "and start becoming celebrations of themselves — a way of confirming that they the entertainers, and we the fans," are still relevant.
Granada's Islamic Council, for example, has been lobbying to stop annual celebrations of the fall of Granada into Christian hands.
