Some roads clogged with protesters resembled a field of flowers, with thousands of colorful umbrellas. Umbrellas are a symbol of an earlier pro-democracy movement, but were being used on Oct. 6 simply to keep off the rain.

Umbrellas have been taken as the symbol of the movement, because they were used to block the pepper spray of the police on the fateful night of Sept. 28.

There are movements afoot to limit CO2 and block sunshine to the earth in order to prevent or minimize "Climate Change." Could we put a big umbrella out where the moon was, during the recent eclipse, to cool our atmosphere?

This incident was one of the events that sparked the Umbrella Movement for democracy in Hong Kong. Su was put under investigation on June 14, 2014.

(Public Domain) The umbrella name for Bach’s two volumes of 48 preludes and fugues is “The Well-Tempered Clavier.”

These include yellow umbrellas, brick formations, protesters' clothes, canvases, and the like. Together with some loan items, all these works become the ‘bellwethers’ of the "Made from Scratch" movement in the UK.

He compared the current landscape to what prevailed with the eugenics movement a century ago.

Hong Kong Is Center Stage The Umbrella Movement for democracy in Hong Kong shocked the world, as the Hong Kong government fired tear gas at demonstrators and threatened to do further clearance operations.

"The colors were brilliant, the textures were fabulous, the movements were grand."   "[The] performance was absolutely marvelous.

Trump is achieving this through a thorough revamping of U.S. institutions and policies regarding culture, education, industry, trade, and defense—the essence of the Make America Great Again movement.

However, she spent most of her time talking about the anti-CRT movement. “This is a movement of the far-right,” Griffin said.

Protests linked to the cost of living broke out in Iran on Dec. 28, spiraling into one of the largest protest movements against the clerical leadership since the Islamic republic was founded in 1979.

Oct. 20, the 23rd day of the pro-democracy movement Occupy Central, was also the graduation ceremony of the Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Students held umbrellas at their graduation to express their appeal for universal suffrage. 

AMPS is part of Red Union, an umbrella organisation for several newly established trade unions servicing teachers, nurses, police officers, and doctors.

Today, the Black Lives Matter is coordinated nationwide by an umbrella group called the Movement for Black Lives (MBL).

The issue is thorny because violent agitators, many under the general umbrella of the Antifa anarcho-communist group, have systematically hijacked peaceful protests.

Many even brought umbrellas to block police pepper spray.

Even when they've encountered tear gas and pepper spray from the police, their tools of self-defense were simply umbrellas and masks. The action earned the movement the name of the "Umbrella Revolution."

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Check out the highlights of Xi Jinping "supporting" the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement with his "yellow" umbrella below. [View the story "Xi @ Hong Kong Occupy Central" on Storify]

With Trump’s first international set of state visits abroad—in May 2025 to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates—he “recaptured” the Middle East under the U.S. umbrella.

Helmets, gas masks, and umbrellas have been widely used by protesters since the start of the pro-democracy movement last June, as protection to shelter themselves from the police’s tear gas and rubber bullets.

Police attempted at one point to clear the road, but were driven back by the mass of occupiers, some of whom tossed water bottles and held their ground with opened umbrellas, a symbol of the movement.

I thought the dancers with the movement of the fans, the yellow flowers, were particularly beautiful, [and] the rolling of the parasols, the umbrellas -- I liked those scenes the most.”  

Repeating scenes that have become familiar since the movement began in late September, protesters carrying umbrellas — which have become symbols of the pro-democracy movement — battled police armed with pepper spray, batons and riot shields.

(L) "Umbrella Tree (Magnolia tripetala)," 1932, and Mountain Rose-Bay (Rhododendron catawbiense), 1932, by Mary Vaux Walcott. Watercolor on paper; 10 inches by 7 inches. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington.

(Janice Hisle/The Epoch Times) I described my movements; the woman furrowed her brow and said something about checking into that. Then she left.

The movements, colors and the shininess of the dresses—really enchanting.”   “I loved the rain dance. It was really beautiful.

The SJP group was among the main organizers of a Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) conference in 2006 at the university, he wrote, accusing PSM of being an "anti-Israel propaganda group."

“The precision of it, the way they do everything so precisely: the dance of the flowers, the lotus dance, the multi-colored skirts, the umbrellas dance and the dance of the yellow flowers, the precision of the dancers and the precision of the movements