Topline More than a thousand people—some carrying child-size coffins—as well as several Texas politicians, including Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke, gathered across the str...
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Abortion Rights Advocates Rally Across U.S. With Supreme Court Expected To Overturn Roe V. Wade
Topline Protesters gathered at more than 300 events across the U.S. on Saturday, including in Washington, D.C., New York City and Houston, to demand access to abortion after a leaked draft opinion fro...
Shanghai Residents Resort to NFTs to Preserve Experiences of Protest against Strict COVID Rules
The protesters created a video at the beginning of April dubbed “Propaganda”, and can be found on OpenSea. Protesters in Shanghai, a city of 25 million residents, have minted several items of a video ...
CoinShares Leads Crypto Industry Protest Against EU Policies
Over 40 crypto related businesses, led by asset manager CoinShares, have come forward with demands for friendlier crypto laws in the European Union. In a letter to the EU Parliament, industry members ...
Palestinians Could Run Out Of Wheat Reserves In Three Weeks In Ripple Effect Of Ukraine War
A Palestinian volunteer cook distributes food prepared with ingredients obtained from donors, to help needy families in an impoverished neighborhood in Gaza City in January 2021. AFP via Getty Images ...
Russian Journalist Who Protested War On Air Hired By German Media Outlet
Topline German newspaper Die Welt said on Monday it has hired Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who protested Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine during a television broadcast on state television, ...
Driver Dies After Crashing Car Into Gates Of Russian Embassy In Romania, Reports Say
Topline A man has died after crashing his car into the gate of Russia’s embassy in Romania on Wednesday, according to local police and news reports, the latest in a series of incidents at Russian miss...
New Zealand Nationals Comes Out For Protest Against Latest Mining Facility
The latest hydropower data center in New Zealand has caused concerns among citizens. Some objections address the scarcity of domestic perks of this project. Residents were given assurance by Contact E...
Locals in New Zealand Town Protest Against New Mining Facility
Locals near Clyde Dam in Central Otago, New Zealand, decry the construction of a new data center by Contact Energy in partnership with Lake Parime, a UK-based digital infrastructure outfit providing b...
Employees Including Raven-Symoné Walk Out To Protest Disney Response To Florida Bill
Topline Disney employees across the country staged a full-day walkout Tuesday in response to the company’s “lack of action” and “apathy” over Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill, as portions ...
U.K. Premier League Cancels Broadcasts In Russia As Sports World Reacts To Ukraine Invasion
Topline U.K. Premier League will no longer be televised in Russia as fallout continues in the sports world from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur celebrates after scoring h...
War Protests Erupt Across Europe—Including Russia
Topline With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entering its fourth day, tens of thousands of people across Europe have gathered in protest of the war, calling on Russian president Vladimir Putin to put an ...
Kraken CEO Backs Truckers And Bitcoin As Defense Against Canada’s ‘Weaponized’ Financial System
Jesse Powell, chief executive officer of Kraken Bitcoin Exchange – David Paul Morris/Bloomberg © 2014 Bloomberg Finance LP Jesse Powell is not backing down to pressure from the Canadian governme...
Artist blows up Lamborghini to make NFTs, in protest against crypto culture
Earlier this month, an artist called Shl0ms, with the help of an explosives expert, blew up a Lamborghini worth just shy of $250,000. They are now turning the charred parts into a collection of 999 NF...
With Pepper Spray And Guns, Canadian Police Break Up Trucker Protest That Has Paralyzed Capital
Topline Ottawa police, some bearing guns, moved to break up demonstrations Saturday that have snarled Canada’s capital for weeks using pepper spray as they made scores of arrests and towed away protes...
A Former Bitcoin Fundraiser For Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protest
As originally reported in the Toronto Star last Monday, February 7, Greg Foss, a Canadian and former hedge fund manager, was identified as one of five ‘multi-signature’ key holders of the Bitcoin rais...
Canadian Police to block cryptocurrency transactions amid truckers protest
The Freedom Convoy, Canadian truckers protesting against vaccine mandates and passports by occupying the nation’s capital Ottawa and other important infrastructure, is continuing to constitute a threa...
RCMP Requests Exchanges to Stop Trading with 34 Crypto Wallets, amid the Freedom Convoy Protest
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has asked several Canadian cryptocurrency exchanges to block transactions on 34 crypto wallets related to the truckers’ “Freedom Fleet” protest, according to the Fina...
Humans Are the Last-Mile Problem of Bitcoin Crowdfunding for Canada Truck Protest
On Monday, after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enacted the never-used “Emergencies Act,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said banks are allowed to freeze accounts related to the prote...
Canada’s Emergencies Act to Target Crypto Transactions, amid Anti-Vaccination Protest
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to curb the “Freedom Convoy” protests. The act, which is part of the Terrorist Funding rules, gives local authoriti...
Canadian Truckers Raise $880k in Bitcoin, Protest Against Vaccine Mandate
A collective named as “Freedom Convoy” composed of truckers from Ottawa, Canada, has raised roughly 21 BTC, worth $880,000 at current prices. The amount was crowdsourced from 4,877 donors,...
News Of Canada’s Return To No. 1 Lost Amid Ambassador Bridge Protest
Many of the 18-wheelers that are part of the protest at the Ambassador Bridge, responsible for 20% … [+] of U.S. trade with Canada, are likely being pulled by tractor rigs from Mexico, which sup...
Automakers cut production due to anti-vaccine Canadian trucker protest
Vehicles block the route leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, as truckers and their supporters continue to protest against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandat...
Hundreds Worldwide Protest China’s Human Rights Abuses As Beijing Winter Olympics Kick Off
Topline Hundreds of people in several countries on Friday protested against China’s repression of its Muslim Uyghur minority and Tibetans as the Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off amid diplomatic boyc...
RFK Jr., Proud Boys And Holocaust Imagery
Topline Protestors marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on Sunday in objection to the Covid-19 vaccine mandates, drawing an array of sometimes controversial ...
Anti-Vaccine Mandate Protesters March On D.C.
Topline Protestors began marching on Washington D.C. Sunday, planning to march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in objection to the Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Demonstrators partici...
Russian protest group Pussy Riot seeks to tackle gender inequality in the NFT space
Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot is planning to launch a DAO for LBTQ+ and women artists. As the group’s co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova told Cointelegraph, the DAO will be working on reducing t...
UniCredit against Bitcoin: protest on Twitter
On Friday, Italian bank Unicredit posted a tweet on its official profile in which it says it is prohibiting its account holders from interacting with counterparties that issue virtual currencies or ac...
Trump’s Changing Stance On Jan. 6 Attack—From Condemning Rioters To Backing ‘Protest’
Topline Though former President Donald Trump reluctantly condemned his supporters who violently breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, he eventually softened his stance dramatically, going so f...
Kazakhstan protest leads to internet shutdown: 15% of global Bitcoin miners go offline
TL;DR Breakdown Protests in Kazakhstan led to a nationwide internet shutdown. Almost 15% of global Bitcoin miners were offline. All major BTC mining pools experienced a significant reduction in thei...