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Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 74, suffered a gory head wound on Thursday when he was struck by a projectile during a protest against mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for government employees. The projectile was later identified as a rock thrown by one of the demonstrators.

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced Monday the woke Team USA Olympic shot putter, Raven Saunders, did not violate any rules when putting her arms over her head in the form of an “X” while on the podium receiving her medal during the Tokyo Olympics Games.

Hundreds, including healthcare workers, gathered in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday to protest Atrium Health’s and Novant Health’s recent announcement requiring workers to be vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus. One registered nurse said she is “not going to be forced to take an experimental vaccine.”

The movement against vaccine passports in France grew to over 150 cities on Saturday, with with 150,000 protesting against health passes.

The High Court of Hong Kong on Tuesday handed down the first guilty verdict under the draconian “national security law” that Beijing imposed last Summer to crush the pro-democracy movement and criminalize dissent.

Tensions rose in front of the White House Sunday as two separate groups of protesters gathered to protest in support of the Cuban people. One group, which included many self-proclaimed socialists, called for ending the embargo while a group of Cuban Americans called for freedom from communism.

Thousands of Britons gathered in London to protest against Prime Minister Boris Johnson plan to mandate vaccine passports for daily life.

Football legend Herschel Walker recently sounded off about Olympians protesting the American flag and kneeling prior to games.

Around 300 anti-vaccine passport protesters stormed the town hall of Chambéry, denouncing French measures to implement a vaccine passport.

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) was arrested Thursday during a protest against Senate “inaction” regarding voting legislation and filibuster reform, Fox News reported.

Cuban human rights activists Andres Portillo and Denis Molina, creators of the Palsaco.com website for reporting oppressive actions by the Cuban government, on Thursday debuted a new Droid smartphone app called Estoypuesto (“I’m on!”) to help organize protests against the dictatorship.

Cuban dissident leader and human rights activist Rosa Maria Paya Acevedo told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on Tuesday that the free world should treat Cuban Communism as an unacceptable moral horror, the same way South African apartheid was defeated with intense international pressure in the 1980s.

Diane Abbott and a group of leftist protesters “took the knee” outside of Downing Street on in “solidarity” with black British footballers.

A child of Cuban refugees, who joined hundreds outside the White House on Saturday to demand President Joe Biden aid protesters in the island nation, told Breitbart News that those taking to the streets are enduring “unbearable” oppression.

Outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday laid three adults and two children covered in “blood” and draped in Cuban flags.

Cuban Americans protesting in support of the Cubans calling for an end of communism painted ‘Cuba Libre’ on the street outside of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC, on Friday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Wednesday urged President Joe Biden to step forward and assist in providing internet access to the people of Cuba, who have taken to the streets in protest of the oppressive, communist regime, prompting the dictatorship to shut down the internet to silence citizens.

The vice minister of Cuba’s interior ministry resigned after allegedly questioning the ministry’s security response to anti-government protests across the Communist-ruled island starting Sunday, Spain’s ABC newspaper reported on Wednesday.

NAPLES, Florida – Hundreds of Cubans gathered in south Florida on Tuesday to protest — not the lack of medical supplies in Cuba — but the brutal communist regime abusing their family and friends back home.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) office is pushing back after members of the establishment media, particularly in Florida, accused the governor of hypocrisy by asserting he is not using his anti-riot law to halt peaceful demonstrations in the state.

Witnesses say lightning struck a mural for George Floyd in Toledo, Ohio, leading to its collapse and destroying the structure.

A Cuban priest reportedly remains in police custody as of Monday after police beat him, dragged him through the street, and stripped him in his native Camagüey for supporting peaceful protests.

Democrats responded by criticizing DeSantis’ anti-riot bill, which increases penalties for unruly protesters.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) explained on Monday why some areas of the country are seeing a tremendous crime wave, attributing it to “weak policies” and anti-police rhetoric, which he said are resulting in “disastrous consequences.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) expressed support for Cubans who took to the streets nationwide on Sunday demanding the end of the communist regime.

The New York Times described chants of “freedom!” at thousands-strong peaceful protests in Cuba on Sunday as one of several “anti-government slogans” popular among the congregated. The Times also erroneously reported the protests were about “food and medicine shortages.”

Thousands of Cubans in at least 16 cities took the streets peacefully on Sunday to demand an end to the 62-year-old communist regime, chanting “freedom,” wearing American flags, and in many cases facing extreme police repression.

Radical left-wing activists demonstrated outside Parliament against Priti Patel’s proposed legislation to curb the right to protest in the UK.

King Mswati of Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, has not fled the country, Eswatini Prime Minister Themba Masuku said on Tuesday following unconfirmed reports that Africa’s last remaining monarch had escaped Eswatini amid violent protests against his rule.

Police arrested 23 Extinction Rebellion activists after the eco-alarmist group targeted media organisations in London with horse manure.

In the wake of last summer’s Black Lives Matter riots and a continuing crime wave across America’s big cities, nearly half of voters think anti-police protests hurt public safety.

Almost all teachers in England believe that an “action-focused climate change curriculum” should be incorporated across subjects, with more than half saying that secondary school pupils should be taught to protest global warming.

Priti Patel’s proposed curbs on the right to protest would be a breach of human rights according to the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

Ten people were reportedly arrested outside the Phoenix office of Sen. Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) on Tuesday while protesting her support to maintain the filibuster.

Students at a college in Nanjing, China staged an unusually energetic protest on Sunday that began as a peaceful march against university merger plans and ended with riot police storming the campus after the principal was taken hostage for 30 hours.

Despite protests and President Biden’s war on pipelines oil and gas are flowing from Canada to the United States by record volumes.