By New Cold War.org, April 6, 2015
Several thousand Ukrainians protested in from of the U.S. embassy in Kyiv on April 1 against U.S. support to the government of Ukraine. Protesters targeted the government (and U.S.) policies of rising prices and costs of services, lower salaries and standards of living, and banning of freedom of speech and opinion. The rally was held under the theme, “We are not cattle!”
Thousands of Ukrainians protest at U.S. embassy in Kyiv. Signs read, ‘We are not cattle’
Local journalists covered the event but video and news reports posted online on Ukrainian news outlets has been systematically deleted. Below is a brief video clip of the rally, posted on YouTube.
Russia Insider came across news of the rally and posted it on April 4. Here are two reports which appear there.
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Report by Life News, April 1, 2015 (translated at Off Guardian):
About two and a half thousand Ukrainians surrounded the US embassy in Kiev on the first of April. People who disagree with the appointment of foreigners to the Ukrainian government, as well as the intervention of the Americans and Europeans in the public administration of the country, holding banners saying “We are not cattle!” And they made sounds imitating animals.
Besides the protesters braying and bleating, they were eating cabbage, which was distributed by the organizers of the protest. They also kept two-meter carrots with the symbols of the European Union. By the end of the demonstration of dissent Kiev residents pelted the US embassy with manure.
It is noteworthy that the video from the protest was removed from all the Ukrainian sites and users were blocked. Local journalists hardly covered the event.
Report by drcollins (user blog at Telegraph):
On April 1 US Embassy was picketed by more than two thousand Ukrainian people under slogan “We are not cattle!”
The phrases “We are not cattle!” on the posters were written in four languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English and Polish. Also people unrolled the big slogan with the quote of one famous Ukrainian writer Panas Mirny “Do oxen roar when the rack is full?”
For 2 hours, from 12 a.m. till 2 p.m. people were mooing and bleating in protest against the transformation of the Ukrainians into beasts by means of prices and rates increase, lowering salaries and standards of living, and banning freedom of speech and opinion. Mooing is the only thing people can do not to be arrested by the current government. But even despite these safety measures many people received physical threats from guarding US embassy right-wing radicals and USC officers.
The representative of the Embassy came to the picketing people and asked what they wanted. The answer was mooing and eloquent posters.
At the end of the picket a few activists began to throw the thing that beasts have enough – excrements at the plate of the Embassy. Several USC officers came up to them threatening by arresting and transferring to the nearest police buses.
The Ukrainian mass media headed by the Ministry of Propaganda of Ukraine ignored such an action and the information about this protest was blocked. Even bloggers who tried to place this information were instantly blocked (for example, Maxim Ravreba and Anatoly Sharij – he’s ready to give an interview on such theme, Anatoly was shocked, 2 minutes after placing the material the YouTube account was blocked).
Complete blockade, both forced and information is obvious. It’s obvious that American embassy in Kiev is guarded much better than other governmental buildings, because the US Embassy is the main institute of power in Ukraine.
And here is another video of the rally (two minutes):