Outraged Polish women said it with umbrellas, locked-down Serbians banged pots from open windows and environmentalists did what they have always done - climbed a tree.
FILE PHOTO: A participant wearing a protective face mask stands amidst mannequins during a rally outside the Ministry of Health headquarters to support patients suffering from rare diseases and to demand additional governmental aid for a high-quality treatment, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease continues in Kiev, Ukraine May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo
Measures to stop contagion have stifled protest movements worldwide, from the mass demonstrations of Hong Kong to the civil disobedience of climate activists in London who last year caused gridlock by shutting roads and bridges. Serbians also found a way to make their protest heard without leaving home. For two nights last week, a cacophony of tin pans, drums, whistles and horns reverberated through much of the country as citizens, stuck at home under curfew, vented their anger at the government’s tough containment measures.
“The time has come to fight and to live,” hospital union official Elias Sioras told hundreds of masked and gloved Greeks neatly spaced more than a metre apart.Many of the protests bubbling away across Europe are focused on national lockdowns, either calling on governments to lift them or demanding more state support to endure them. Others are picking up on grievances that predated the pandemic.
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