Title: Red, Yellow, Blue, Green: the Colors of Protests
Headings: Red, Yellow, Blue, Green: the Colors of Protests
Red, Yellow, Blue, Green: the Colors of Protests
Why do they wear yellow vests?
Green abortion rights movement in Argentina
Umbrella movement in Hong Kong
Green movement in Iran
The saffron revolution in Myanmar
Yellow shirts vs. red shirts in Thailand
Orange revolution in Ukraine
Blue states and red states in the Untied States
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Content: All French drivers must carry a yellow vest in their cars in case they have car trouble. The drivers launched their protest against a proposed increase in fuel taxes wearing the vests. To the protesters, the vests represent a troublesome government demand. So they used the vests to express their anger over high taxes and other financial difficulties. The vests can be seen easily at night and at roadblocks around France. But they also made protesters easy targets for police during the riots. FILE - In this April 10, 2018, file photo, abortion-rights demonstrators raise green handkerchiefs during a rally in front of the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ( AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Green abortion rights movement in Argentina
Across the Atlantic, demonstrators wore green handkerchiefs in the streets of some Argentine cities last August. They were calling for women to have the right to end their pregnancies as they choose. The protests in the homeland of Pope Francis started as lawmakers in the Senate voted against a bill that would have permitted abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.