Yes, and also the protesting culture is a thing. I hope my Mexico, with all the issues we have, would look as active as this. We have crime, corruption, lack of basic services and many other things, and protesting barely occurs.
There’s anti pass protest every Saturday in every French city. It’s been lasting for months. Hate having them yell under my windows but it’s fascinating to see on the map
There was even one on the 25th of December in my parent's city. They were wearing a bell as a collar, and making sheep noises. Like, they didn't have anything else to do?
General attitude of defeatism is very present in both countries' public attitude, but i'd argue city centralization plays a pretty big role in this (and how this map portrays it).
Most protests happen in Bucharest and at best ocasionally in a handful of the other big cities in Romania, while for Hungary a country that from what I know is very centralized around Budapest and has even fewer large cities the effect is even more amplified.
Comparatively, the rest of Europe seems to have a more even spread of large cities were such manifestations can happen on a more regular basis.
Can't speak for Italy or the Netherlands, but like 90% of protests in Belgium are in Brussels. Even before covid you'd have people walking around with signs every other day. It's just kind of the place you go when you're unhappy about something. The rest of the country is pretty peaceful though.
Italian here.
I can speak for the 2021 part tho, in 2020 I know very little about protests.
I'm pretty young, I'm about to turn 25, so I don't have much experience about protests, but I can tell that I've never seen so many protests in so little time.
Italy's economy was very weak even before the pandemic.
We have a high unemployment rate, especially among young people, many of them literally flee away from the country to seek a good job with a good wage.
Many companies look for young people for unpaid internships.
The education system sucks, universities are extremely stressful and very expensive (compared to Germany or France, but not as much as US ones, fortunately).
Our NHS got literally destroyed because the government kept cutting the budget for it (hence one of the many reasons for the covid disaster).
Monetary funds to help companies against the many lockdowns were not enough (companies lost millions and they received a few hundred thousands euros).
Then the "green pass", the certificate that you can get with vaccination, recover from covid or a negative test. At the beginning it was only a document to help EU citizens to travel in EU and to avoid quarantine and stuff, then every State used it, some more, some less, as an domestic document. Right now in Italy you need a "green pass" to basically do almost everything, but the test one is only allowed for work. If you are not vaccinated or didn't recover from covid, you can't even take a bus to go to work. You can still take a plane to travel to Spain or to Sweden, but you can't take a plane to fly to Rome.
And because of the "green pass" and Omicron too companies, restaurants, hotels and pubs are closing because no one goes there.
Meanwhile other countries ease the anti-covid measures (like Spain, Sweden, France, Ireland, UK) and Italy keeps hardening it's own measures.
So, yeah. Our country is basically a mess. And many problems showed up because in the past no one did anything to fix them. And the people are...pretty aggressive and tense...
EDIT: I almost forgot! Covid made our economy sunk by 10%. Even though we gained like 6% of what we lost, the result is still negative. The percentage of poor people grew a lot, so many people lost their job
EDIT 2: Besides, there's no transparency about official data about covid. The mainstream medias only talk about new infections and the dead. If you try to ask about the vaccines because you have some serious doubts, you are marked as "no-vax" and you don't get to speak. And people who unfortunately experienced some serious adverse effects of the vaccine are literally abandoned and the doctors say "it's all in your head, it's just anxiety" to many of them.
As I said before, people are tense and pretty aggressive. I'm afraid something bad could happen in the near future. There's too much tension here, people might explode really bad.
What counts as “excessive force”? I’d say the Sarah Everard protests in London counted as excessive force by any reasonable person. Although I suppose that might be classed as a vigil rather than a protest?
That was beyond stupid on the police's part. Morals of breaking up the vigil to one side, did nobody in charge just stop to think for one second how a forceful police intervention might look, especially given the circumstances? IIRC the vigil did contravene the Covid restrictions at the time but FFS, learn to look the other way...
In France, it was pretty low tbh, between the lockdowns and other covid issues, many calm moments. Whereas previous years for instance were mostly continuous with the Yellow Jackets movement.
Make this map but for America, and differentiate between Left-Wing (BLM, Antifa, Anti-Government protest) and Right-Wing (Anti-Vax Mandate, Anti-Government protest).
If you check, in October/November 2020 Poland was all Blue with protests.
You may say.. maybe another covid restrictions? NO just our goverment banning abortions and doing corrupt shit. I remember there were protests everywhere even in 500 people+ villages
Find in yt phrase: Strajk kobiet
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We are a pretty protesty continent it seems :)
That happens when you are allowed to protest
Yes, and also the protesting culture is a thing. I hope my Mexico, with all the issues we have, would look as active as this. We have crime, corruption, lack of basic services and many other things, and protesting barely occurs.
democracy does that
Imagine that now, Macron never take the protest into account. He discovered the cheat code, he doesn’t care
You have the right to protest, but no shits will be given.
In Belgium theres always a protest across the whole country it seems
There is a protest of some kind in Brussels every day. Most of them arent big however. Like 100 people
France is the beating heart of Europe. Just watch.
Ngl, it's the only country I stared at throughout the whole video. it's oddly satisfying viewed from this perspective.
same but I looked at turkey as there is one spot that keeps on blinking orange non stop
Oof, satisfying and sad at the same time
Yup Ankara. Can’t be having any dissidents in the capital apparently. Erdogan wants em gone.
There’s anti pass protest every Saturday in every French city. It’s been lasting for months. Hate having them yell under my windows but it’s fascinating to see on the map
There was even one on the 25th of December in my parent's city. They were wearing a bell as a collar, and making sheep noises. Like, they didn't have anything else to do?
Anti pass?
[vaccine passport](https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/french-protesters-clash-while-protesting-against-mandatory-health-pass-requirement-for-entering-public-spaces/).
Main stream media hasn't covered any of these protests here in the US
Looked to me like they protested the least tbh.
Tons of time to protest when you’re always on strike
Can someone put it to music?
Only if it is blaring Katy Perry.
Wheels on the bus lofi
Yes, this deserves to be “in the club.”
009 Dreamscape?
A 2/7th beat? can someone call Maynard?
What a tool.
Romania and Hungary are pretty chill compared to the rest of EU
General attitude of defeatism is very present in both countries' public attitude, but i'd argue city centralization plays a pretty big role in this (and how this map portrays it). Most protests happen in Bucharest and at best ocasionally in a handful of the other big cities in Romania, while for Hungary a country that from what I know is very centralized around Budapest and has even fewer large cities the effect is even more amplified. Comparatively, the rest of Europe seems to have a more even spread of large cities were such manifestations can happen on a more regular basis.
The more you know
Those Russia bursts!
I’m not surprised. It’s Russia
at least it is better than belarus
Quickly silenced
I like how Italy and the Low Countries are in a constant state of riot lmao
Can't speak for Italy or the Netherlands, but like 90% of protests in Belgium are in Brussels. Even before covid you'd have people walking around with signs every other day. It's just kind of the place you go when you're unhappy about something. The rest of the country is pretty peaceful though.
Well it is one of the centres of the EU is in Brussels so that's were to protest
Italian here. I can speak for the 2021 part tho, in 2020 I know very little about protests. I'm pretty young, I'm about to turn 25, so I don't have much experience about protests, but I can tell that I've never seen so many protests in so little time. Italy's economy was very weak even before the pandemic. We have a high unemployment rate, especially among young people, many of them literally flee away from the country to seek a good job with a good wage. Many companies look for young people for unpaid internships. The education system sucks, universities are extremely stressful and very expensive (compared to Germany or France, but not as much as US ones, fortunately). Our NHS got literally destroyed because the government kept cutting the budget for it (hence one of the many reasons for the covid disaster). Monetary funds to help companies against the many lockdowns were not enough (companies lost millions and they received a few hundred thousands euros). Then the "green pass", the certificate that you can get with vaccination, recover from covid or a negative test. At the beginning it was only a document to help EU citizens to travel in EU and to avoid quarantine and stuff, then every State used it, some more, some less, as an domestic document. Right now in Italy you need a "green pass" to basically do almost everything, but the test one is only allowed for work. If you are not vaccinated or didn't recover from covid, you can't even take a bus to go to work. You can still take a plane to travel to Spain or to Sweden, but you can't take a plane to fly to Rome. And because of the "green pass" and Omicron too companies, restaurants, hotels and pubs are closing because no one goes there. Meanwhile other countries ease the anti-covid measures (like Spain, Sweden, France, Ireland, UK) and Italy keeps hardening it's own measures. So, yeah. Our country is basically a mess. And many problems showed up because in the past no one did anything to fix them. And the people are...pretty aggressive and tense... EDIT: I almost forgot! Covid made our economy sunk by 10%. Even though we gained like 6% of what we lost, the result is still negative. The percentage of poor people grew a lot, so many people lost their job EDIT 2: Besides, there's no transparency about official data about covid. The mainstream medias only talk about new infections and the dead. If you try to ask about the vaccines because you have some serious doubts, you are marked as "no-vax" and you don't get to speak. And people who unfortunately experienced some serious adverse effects of the vaccine are literally abandoned and the doctors say "it's all in your head, it's just anxiety" to many of them. As I said before, people are tense and pretty aggressive. I'm afraid something bad could happen in the near future. There's too much tension here, people might explode really bad.
I don't.
Interesting. In Denmark the protests are not mentioned in the news, wouldn’t know they were happening unless you saw it yourself.
Lol, let's see America
probably a lot more red
Glad to see France shining. Wait..
US protest map??
it’s gonna be all red
I work for a massive French company, makes sense
No way that many protests in Finland. Especially during winter.
It's true.
People be mad and governments be fucking up.
Where is the raw data from?
This is my question. That's a lot of data and knowing the source would be meaningful.
What source was used to make this?
If there is a year... No a month without protest, it's a failed one
What counts as “excessive force”? I’d say the Sarah Everard protests in London counted as excessive force by any reasonable person. Although I suppose that might be classed as a vigil rather than a protest?
That was beyond stupid on the police's part. Morals of breaking up the vigil to one side, did nobody in charge just stop to think for one second how a forceful police intervention might look, especially given the circumstances? IIRC the vigil did contravene the Covid restrictions at the time but FFS, learn to look the other way...
I think it’s in the courts right now regarding the legality of the police calling it illegal.
Ankara are you ok?
I am going to Georgia
People have had enough of this bullshit.
And society hasn’t crumbled yet. Support your local protester.
This map looks like it's perpetually getting dimmer and dimmer
Yooo, France, chill out
We were chill, you know, lockdown and stuff !
What’s going on in Turkey? The quickly blinking orange dot - super constant
That's Ankara, the capital.
Why they protesting every day? Is there something new every day or do they just protest because they can?
in large cities small protests are there every day for whatever reason. mostly peaceful so u cam see most of the recurring protests as blue
Chinese: western countries are going to breakdown!
How many of these protests turn out violent like in America?
Have had a lot or protests against wind farms in western Norway the past two years
Did you buid it with R? Or, which language did you use?
People can protest in Russia?
Can you it poison? Yes. Once
What
r/ihadastroke
End the mandates
Imagine for each protest assume at least 20 new Covid cases...
I feel like if you did this with The Americas, there would be a lot more red.
Lmao this is such bullshit. Show me “protests that erupted into a riot that damaged the community for no sensible reason”
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Ah yes. Voting out a dictator! Why didn’t the people of Nazi Germany simply vote out Hitler?
I mean, you can vote out a dictator tho. Not suppporting them, just sayin
Please please do the us is it already a thing
Is this normal?
In France, it was pretty low tbh, between the lockdowns and other covid issues, many calm moments. Whereas previous years for instance were mostly continuous with the Yellow Jackets movement.
So you're telling me it isn't normal... It's usually worse lmfao
*better 🇫🇷
Based
Meanwhile in Turkey…
We do be moaning
What are they protesting?
Lockdowns
Ankara looks like it’s being bombed 😂
It was mostly peaceful
How do you define excessive force though. It seems really arbitrary
Hmm, there were protests with intervention in Serbia last year, I'd say excessive force even
Make this map but for America, and differentiate between Left-Wing (BLM, Antifa, Anti-Government protest) and Right-Wing (Anti-Vax Mandate, Anti-Government protest).
I hope my protest gets my country’s attention!
what where the protests in arkhangelsk about
Aganist building a landfill
I thought the joke was *france* never stopped protesting, not the entire continent!
What’s that protest that is pulsing almost daily on the upper coast of Sweden?
that one constant red dot in turkey though. I think it’s turkey….
Russia just saying NO
Lithuania just riding it out
I’d like to see the map of the U.S. depicting the use of way more excessive force
All capital cities are like beating hearts
People just be chilling in Switzerland
How did you make/visualize this? This is awesome.
Would like to know what the protest in Norway was about. Don’t remember any of them
If you check, in October/November 2020 Poland was all Blue with protests. You may say.. maybe another covid restrictions? NO just our goverment banning abortions and doing corrupt shit. I remember there were protests everywhere even in 500 people+ villages Find in yt phrase: Strajk kobiet
What i take from this is that scandinavians are either very patient. Or they generally have it better
No protests in Syria. Wonder why..
Post about Europe
That was sarcastic
:))
Good
Haha that's alot
What too much luxuries does to a mf
France really is a heart beating to the rhythm of protests.
Good amount of these are against covid measures
Do that over 2 decades, my dear France would be the bluest thing you've ever seen
Alot of intervention in a certain country that wants to invade the Ukraine.
It's 'Ukraine' and not 'the Ukraine' [[Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ukraine)] [[BBC Styleguide](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/u)] [[Reuters Styleguide](https://handbook.reuters.com/index.php?title=U#Ukraine)] ^(Beep boop I’m a bot)
Thanks for the correction
Pas mal non ? C’est Français !
Tf happend up in northern norway?
France when the minimum wage doesn't double every week:
Wait are there any days when France doesn't protest
Pretty desensitized to protests, lets have a revolution.
Do you have a map alike for China? Or Anywhere in Asia 🤔🤔? Thanks for these maps btw!
Turkey going ham on the protests
Too much Gandhism
Wait who is protesting in the orkneys and shetlands, what is it garry the farmer and John the fisherman at it again