The calm continued through the week, with protesters peacefully creating a human chain across the city on Friday -- the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way human chain.
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Agents left without making an arrest after encountering the human chain.
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However, activists formed a human chain which briefly stopped his car.
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We're forming a human chain around the Capitol to protest #Trumpcare.
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They used a human chain to get her safely to the truck!!
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Human chain in Panama City Beach to save 9 people drowning pic.twitter.
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Standing shoulder to shoulder, the "human chain" of demonstrators stretched for 300 miles.
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Millions of women formed a massive human chain in India to protest gender inequality.
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Masked protesters also formed a human chain around parts of the city Friday night.
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They formed a human chain, extending an estimated 620 kilometers (385 miles) across Kerala.
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The protest finished with a human chain near one of Copenhagen's main police stations.
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Another human chain spread over 11 km was also formed in Kolkata, organizers said.
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The Hong Kong protesters managed to form human chain 30 miles long, surprising even themselves.
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Yara Khawam, an actress and organizer, described the human chain as an act of love.
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A human chain of women from standing in solidarity on Westminster Bridge #WeStandTogether #WomensMarch pic.twitter.
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Calais residents would also form a human chain along the port road, said protest organisers.
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But on Monday, the caravan's members formed a human chain and waded across the Suchiate.
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RT to spread the word: Human chain at the U.S. Capitol tomorrow at 5 p.m.
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Mayor Anne Hidalgo described seeing them passing treasures hand to hand in a human chain.
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A human chain helped the laboring Annie wade through waist-high water and into the truck.
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When the city came with the bulldozers, we had people holding hands creating a human chain.
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Neighbors in Nashville formed a human chain to protect a dad and his son from ICE.
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New pressures on Saudi Arabia, a rare ruling in Pakistan, a helpful human chain in Britain.
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Students form a human chain outside the Maryknoll Convent School in Hong Kong on Sept. 6.
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"One group over there, one over here, and we'll make one large human chain," he said.
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One day, inspired by a single post on LIHKG, the protesters decided to form a human chain.
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Earlier, female protesters tried to form a human chain trying to separate the demonstrators from the mobs.
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In Mumbai, Krishna devotees lay on the ground in a human chain to protest the court order.
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Dubbed the "women's wall," the protesters formed a human chain, extending an estimated 385 miles across Kerala.
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Together with dozens of other young people, he formed a human chain to begin clearing the rubble.
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They formed a human chain, passing the books along to the new site, about 19443 meters away.
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Appeals for peace in Yemen, a mysterious island in Finland and a helpful human chain in Britain.
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Snapshot: Above, a human chain to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombing in Dresden on Thursday.
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As people inevitably slipped, others frequently stepped in, sometimes forming a human chain to help them up.
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The group formed a human chain and were able to save the driver, removing him from the truck.
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The Wells Fargo security guards tried to rush through the human chain of de-escalators surrounding our blockade.
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Guaidó hoped to form a "human chain" to pass bags of food and medical supplies across the bridges.
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In the southern state of Kerala, organizers said more than a hundred thousand people formed a human chain.
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In the Cape Town area, demonstrators formed an intermittent human chain from the Cape Peninsula into the city.
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Bangladeshi students and activists form a human chain to protest a mother from Noakhali, in Dhaka, being gang-raped.
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A group of protesters formed a human chain in front of the car taking Boris Johnson to Buckingham Palace.
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According to the Guardian, protesters gathered by foot, on bicycle, or on motorbikes to participate in the human chain.
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Hundreds of protesters formed a human chain around the Golden 1 Center before the Sacramento Kings game on Thursday.
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Supporters of the campus protesters tried to form a human chain to deliver medical supplies, helmets, food, and water.
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And at one point, a group of people fed up with waiting formed a human chain across the road.
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Hours before the women entered the temple, millions of people formed a 300-mile human chain protesting gender inequality.
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A human chain began forming from the old October Books stockroom, snaking past 54 doors to the new building.
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On Friday night, thousands of Hong Kongers formed a human chain, calling for peace and democracy, per AP reports.
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In the four years since the protests, most of the original 20153 students in the human chain have graduated.
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Officials have said that emergency workers formed a human chain to whisk items out of harm's way during the blaze.
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One clip showed rescuers forming a human chain to reach a stranded car, and one man nearly getting swept away.
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Eventually, the neighbors created a human chain around the man's car and home so he could get into the house.
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As Vergara spoke, a human chain of hard-hatted rescuers removed a large chunk of concrete from the floodlit scene.
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And one of them, to me, was the women in India forming the 385-mile human chain for gender equality.
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It wasn't until onlookers formed a human chain to support Ott that Vansant was finally freed and hauled to shore.
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Reporters so swarmed O'Rourke that volunteers held hands and formed a human chain around him and his family during the march.
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Stacey Farley, a neighbor who participated in the human chain, told BuzzFeed News the early morning standoff lasted about four hours.
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One Facebook video in particular showed several people forming a human chain while trying to rescue a woman in her car.
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California Senator Kamala Harris tweeted yesterday that she planned to join the human chain and encouraged others to do the same.
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A number of protesters sat on the pavement and formed a human chain to stretch across the street by the hotel.
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Several hundred people formed a human chain Sunday in central Hong Kong in a peaceful rally in support of the movement.
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The aquarium is a key link in the human chain dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of cold-stunned sea turtles.
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ABC 13 Houston also tweeted a photo of another human chain, formed to help rescue an elderly man stuck in his car.
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So to encourage the animals to swim back, 14 swimmers were brought in to create a human chain to create a barrier.
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The next, I want to form a one-man human chain across the entrance and warn hungry people to go somewhere else.
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Hours before the women entered the temple, an estimated five million people formed a 300-mile-long human chain protesting gender inequality.
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The session had already been pushed back once: Protesters vowed last week to form a human chain to prevent lawmakers from gathering.
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On an overcast Sunday, Mr. Mier decided to attempt the mission, despite plans by protesters to form a human chain across the country.
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Several people formed a human chain to save a woman from a car stuck in gushing waters in Ellicott City, Maryland on Saturday.
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So the station master mobilised a human chain to shift box after box of bottled water from his store room to the train.
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It was the forming human chain of women that was building momentum... We didn't think there was a place for it in society.
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There was so much food, the IFAW team and Coast Guard crew formed a human chain to offload the bags onto St. Thomas.
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A group of 800 people form a human chain along Yotsukara Beach on March 5, 2016, in remembrance of the 3/11 disaster.
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Unbreakable bond When a family was in danger of drowning off a Florida beach, 80 strangers formed a human chain to save them.
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In 2010, Heaney started to deal with this Virgilian fragment obliquely, publishing "Human Chain", his last full collection before his death in 2013.
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The campaign won friends and yielded memorable moments along the way, from a human chain around the block to a car park carnival.
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In places where the current of the flood waters was strong, about 50 people joined hands to make a human chain, said Taylor.
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Video on Indian television showed local residents, police officers and soldiers forming a human chain to pull injured pilgrims out of the gorge.
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On the western edge of Omaha, dense crowds formed a human chain and tossed red and white chrysanthemums into the gently lapping waves, remembering.
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Beachgoers, who had seen the family struggle against the tide, were determined to save them and formed a human chain leading back to shore.
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Children were passed hand to hand down a human chain along the side of the building, and rescuers helped adults climb down fire ladders.
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Unbreakable: Thousands of Planned Parenthood supporters and other opponents of the Senate's proposed healthcare bill formed a human chain around the Capitol on Wednesday.
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Others followed until around 80 heroic individuals formed a human chain, which reportedly stretched 100 yards out into the water, to help the swimmers.
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But residents formed a human chain around it, preventing its destruction -- such was the gulf between the people of Mosul and their new rulers.
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The newspaper described extensive rescue efforts at the site, with children and animals being passed hand-to-hand by rescuers in a human chain.
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Police detained a high-profile activist Imran H. Sarkar for seven hours after he tried to organize a human chain in Dhaka's Shahbag neighborhood.
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Yikes: An elderly man was trapped in his SUV during the floods, so a group of people formed a human chain to rescue him.
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In January, a group of students drew attention to their cause by forming a human chain and shutting down part of a busy expressway.
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"Each person had a different talent, [swimming] was my talent and my mission was to get them closer to the human chain," Simmons says.
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Since they didn't have a rope or line to throw to the endangered people, bystanders began forming a human chain starting on the shore.
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The firefighters had formed a human chain and were trying to reach a floodgate where they believed the missing boy was trapped, he said.
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Firefighters reportedly formed a human chain around the building and saved the crown, which Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said has been taken for safekeeping.
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We look at President Xi Jinping's quest to absorb Taiwan, the U.S. Congress's first day back and a 300-mile human chain in India.
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Now look at a map of the United States and determine which city a human chain of 5.5 million from your home would reach.
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Protesters held hands or extended scarves between themselves to form the human chain, which connected the cities of San Sebastian, Bilbao and regional seat Vitoria.
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Horrifyingly, a fresh wave of whales made their way to the beach and rescuers formed a human chain in a futile attempt to block them.
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Demonstrators formed a human chain around the Capitol, urged on by lawmakers like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, Democrats from California and New Jersey, respectively.
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"I saw a group of people, a few at first, and then more and more, start forming a human chain," witness Rosalind Beckton told CNN.
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In January 2019, millions of women formed a human chain around the entire state in protest against a refusal to admit women to the Sabarimala temple.
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The human chain formed on Sunday was inspired by similar chains Lebanese women have formed throughout the revolution to prevent clashes between protesters and armed forces.
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"We made a human chain, with our friends from the church… to get, as quick as possible, to get all the relics," he told CBS News.
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Cover image: Survivors of a mass shooting form a human chain around the shuttered site of a country music festival on the first anniversary, Monday, Oct.
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Some of the workers formed a human chain to help funnel supplies to black-clad activists who were blocking roads with traffic cones and overturned dumpsters.
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Another inspiring morning was Muslim Day at the Capitol in January, when groups organized a human chain to protect Muslim speakers and participants outside the building.
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The activists formed a human chain around the boat, with one attached to its main mast making it extremely difficult for the police to dislodge him.
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Pro-business protesters created a human chain at a fountain in Oaxaca City on Monday before proceeding to the governor's mansion abut one mile (1.6 km) away.
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A human chain formed across the Golden State Bridge in San Francisco Friday in just one of the many powerful displays of resistance to Donald Trump's inauguration.
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"Thank you to the Paris Fire Brigade, the police, and municipal agents who made a formidable human chain to save the works of Notre Dame," she wrote.
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In a show of solidarity, people of all faiths, led by the group "Pakistan for All," formed a human chain to protect churches on the following Sunday.
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The campaign also failed in the goal of stretching an unbroken human chain from coast to coast when the event finally took place on May 25, 1986.
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French authorities formed a human chain to save some of Notre Dame's most precious relics as flames engulfed the cathedral, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said Monday night.
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As the students held a sign reading "Release Comrade Kanhaiya," teachers formed a human chain around them to protect them from assault, though there were no clashes.
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Miners occupied their time playing cornhole on the train tracks; other times, they took turns forming a human chain to make sure the train could not move.
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Residents in Nashville, Tennessee, stopped an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer from taking their neighbor into custody on Monday by creating a human chain around their house.
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The local communist politicians who govern Kerala state, from the Communist Party of India-Marxist, have backed the court order -- and helped organize the human chain protest.
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Turning a page When their favorite bookstore was forced to relocate after a rent increase, these English book lovers formed a human chain to move the books.
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In it, Ms. Marin takes her movement inspiration from the farandole, the folk dance that originated in Provence, in which the cast moves as a human chain.
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Pro-democracy protesters have called for a 22-mile human chain outside metro stations, asking people to wear face masks in defiance of the ban on masks.
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They also answered the call of their chief minister to show their support for the alcohol ban by standing together in a human chain across the state.
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Several groups of both protesters and counter-protesters were present, including local religious leaders and politicians who linked arms to form a human chain against the white supremacists.
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As agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought to carry out an arrest, neighbors in Nashville's Hermitage neighborhood formed a human chain to protect members of their community.
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The San Francisco Chronicle reports they attempted to make a human chain to pull him back in but were unsuccessful due to the strong current and intense waves.
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A group of climate change protesters from Greenpeace formed a human chain which briefly blocked Johnson's car on the road leading to Buckingham Palace earlier in the day.
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On Tuesday, rescuers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and Clearwater Marine Aquarium created a human chain to transport dolphins from a canal back to Tampa Bay.
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Read more: 14 rescuers created a human chain to save 4 dolphins in FloridaLincoln police and fire officers were called to the scene to put out the flames.
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You remember spending 15 minutes on Sunday, May 25, 1986, holding hands with people in an attempt to form a continuous human chain across the contiguous United States.
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On August 23, 1989, an estimated two million people formed a 600 kilometer (372 miles) long human chain across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968 and riots ensued in Prospect Heights, neighbors and customers created a human chain to protect the restaurant from damage.
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How many dancers does it take to form a human chain (by way of a folk dance) that breaks apart for sexual assault and links back up again?
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This time, Barnes and fellow shopkeepers made a human chain; one man anchoring himself by a storefront and grabbing hands with another, allowing Barnes to get close to Knight.
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Caldwell told Hawaii News Now that the building's elevators weren't operating Friday during the blaze, forcing firefighters to form a human chain to get equipment to the upper floors.
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Allen said it's a problem that the organizers have tried to contain by having their own rangers stage a human-chain to prevent people from getting to the fire.
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Hundreds of protestors from over two dozen advocacy groups and non-profits formed a human chain around the Capitol to express their opposition to the GOP's dangerous healthcare proposals.
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As an example, Smerconish pointed to a viral video of people forming a human chain to save an elderly man trapped in his car on an interstate in Houston.
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Video from WTVO shows dozens of beachgoers forming a human chain to rescue a swimmer who got caught in a rip current in Panama City Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
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A human chain in the upmarket Hong Kong island mall of Cityplaza, in Taikoo Shing, turned into face-to-face conflict with police, interrupting skating on the ice rink.
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Imagine a human chain of two million people, stretched out over 420 miles across the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, holding hands and singing songs of freedom.
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And then there was the practice of the candidates locking hands and raising them over their heads at the end of each debate, like a human chain of rivals.
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In 2013, the Alliance for Retired Americans and unions held over 50 "human chain" events around the country to oppose the chained CPI cut to earned Social Security benefits.
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U.N. security formed a "human chain" at the annual climate change conference in Madrid and forced over 300 protesters, many of them young indigenous people, out into the cold.
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The French anti-Amazon protests began on Thursday, when activists reportedly formed a human chain and dumped old fridges on the road to block traffic outside a company depot.
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Another resident who was there at the same time described a large group of children standing on the shore of Lake Champlain and joining hands to form a human chain.
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A human chain of rescue workers, led by the chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, retrieved priceless religious artifacts from Notre Dame Cathedral as it burned, French officials confirmed Tuesday.
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The event aimed to raise money to fight poverty and hunger by literally uniting millions of Americans in a single cause: forming a human chain spanning the continental United States.
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In Nashville recently, a group of activists formed a human chain around a man in his van who was being targeted by ICE, forcing officers to give up and leave.
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The members of the communities and from Hindu organisations will form a human chain on Wednesday and stage a motorcycle rally to give cinema hall owners final warnings, Bais said.
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Among the acts of kindness — for strangers, for animals, for local correspondents — is this inspiring picture of a human chain to help rescue someone trapped in a car in Houston.
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Among them was the story of a group of people who formed a human chain to save an elderly man from his submerged vehicle during the worst of Harvey's flooding.
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The human chain began in Lower Manhattan, with views of the Statue of Liberty, continued across New Jersey and to Washington, Chicago, Memphis, Dallas, Phoenix, ending in Long Beach, Calif.
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Volunteers waited in helmets and gloves so they could take their turn on a human chain handing bricks, debris and materials from the point of rescue to waiting dump trucks.
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For almost four hours, Manuel Huerta said, the men passed blocks like a "human chain" to the rest of the men, who piled them on beams on the third floor.
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A woman in Houston posted a video of neighbors forming a human chain through floodwater so a woman who went into labor could make it to a fire department truck.
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Nargis and Massud would be walking to the nearby Grand Trunk Road to be part of a human chain, and the books would travel a mile-long succession of hands.
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A Pepe the frog plush toy wearing a mask is held by students and protesters as they form a human chain along a street in Hong Kong on Oct. 18.
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In Dresden, a far-right stronghold where resentment over what neo-Nazis call the "bombing holocaust" lingers, Steinmeier addressed a somber ceremony that included forming a human chain to remember victims.
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Nargis and her husband Massud, both architects, form part of a human chain carefully transferring books containing the names of Allah or Muhammad within them from a library to new premises.
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For his work, Kessels found as many aerial photographs documenting the human chain as he could and blew them up on billboards of various sizes that were interconnected and installed outdoors.
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The drop was some 50 feet; the group formed a sort of human chain, half remaining above to lower the table and half standing below at each level to receive it.
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On August 23, 383, millions of people in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania formed a 600km (372 miles) long human chain to demand independence from the Soviet Union.
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There have been several demonstrations against the government policies, and about 3,000 people formed a human chain around migrants at the Gare du Nord last month to prevent a police raid.
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At one point, onstage at a theater, she tries to reproduce a game she played as a child called One Big Blob, with everyone in the audience forming a human chain.
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Thursday's Sacramento Kings game was delayed by protesters who formed a human chain in front of Golden 1 Center in Sacramento to protest a police killing of an unarmed black man.
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But when ISIS announced just days later that the al-Nuri mosque was next on the list for demolition, Mosul's residents fought back, reportedly forming a human chain around the site.
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That's when a few men standing along the embankment sprang into action, descending the side of the hill—hand in hand—and forming a human chain down to the first responders.
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The family that almost drowned at Panama City Beach in Florida earlier this month spoke out on Monday alongside the couple that started the 80-person human chain that saved their lives.
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The human-chain protest was organized by Basque group Gure Esku Dago (In Our Own Hands) and ran from Donostia (also known as San Sebastian) to the Basque parliament in Gasteiz (Vitoria).
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Several thousand demonstrators formed a human chain along the perimeter of a U.S. Air Force Base in southwest Germany on Saturday in protest against drone operations by the United States.
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By midafternoon Monday in Tahrir Square, the police had decided that they had enough and, forming a human chain, they gently cleared the square by calling out in Arabic "Yalla" — "Let's go."
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In Oakland, California, at least four were arrested after creating a human chain to block a county building where demonstrators demanded that county law enforcement refuse to collaborate with federal immigration agents.
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They also employ a strategy called "contact tracing": isolating those related to the sick before they have had a chance to infect anyone else, and thus interrupting the human chain of transmission.
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Hands Across America was meant to raise awareness and money for the homeless by getting people across the contiguous United States to hold hands for 15 minutes by forming a human chain.
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The group plans to hold a protest meeting on Monday in Raipur, the state capital, to warn cinema owners, and will organize a human chain on Wednesday to demand a complete ban.
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At least 100 people stood atop the pile clearing it by hand, piece by piece, passing boulders and twisted steel pipes along a human chain that radiated from the heap like spokes.
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He joined a human chain that stretched in front of Emancipation Park and linked his arms with others, blocking waves of white supremacists — some of them in full Nazi regalia — from entering.
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People form a human chain around the make-shift memorial at the Place de la Republique in Paris to honor all those killed in Islamic extremist attacks around Paris in 2015, Monday, Jan.
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Demonstrations on Friday were calm, with protesters forming a human chain along the city's metro network and many donning cartoon character masks in defiance of a ban on covering faces at public rallies.
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Hundreds of people formed a human chain around a mosque in New Zealand as a symbolic act of protection for the Muslim community one week after a gunman opened fire on two mosques.
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On Friday, thousands of people stood in lines stretching around Hong Kong to form a human chain -- a homage to the Baltic Way, which took place on the same date, 30 years ago.
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A few hundred soccer fans, many wearing the strips of their favorite European teams, gathered in a Causeway Bay park on Wednesday for a human chain urging people to "fight for Hong Kong".
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Demonstrations on Friday were calm, with protesters forming a human chain along the city's metro network and many donning cartoon character masks in defiance of a ban on covering faces at public rallies.
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The antidote Strangers on a Florida beach formed an 80-person human chain to rescue nine members of a family who had been caught in a riptide and pulled too far from shore.
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The Alabama native jumped into the water to help while her husband and a few others formed a human chain behind her to bring the family, and four other struggling swimmers, back to shore.
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And later, when the Westboro Baptist Church threatened to picket at victims' funerals, Orlandoans started a human chain group to ensure that families and friends were surrounded by a barrier of love and protection.
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Video from WTVO shows the moment dozens of beachgoers banded together and waded out into the Gulf of Mexico, forming a human chain to save a swimmer who got caught in a rip current.
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The crown of thorns: One of Notre Dame's most prized relics was successfully removed from the cathedral via a firefighter human chain and is currently in Paris City Hall, the New York Times reports.
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TODAY'S NUMBER 385 miles The length of the human chain that tens of thousands of women in India formed to protest a refusal to admit women to Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism's holiest sites.
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All told, Tuesday's rescue took 45 minutes and was executed with just the human chain, as officials didn't want to use anything that might cause stress to the animals like a net or boat.
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Mr. Zoido said the police had intervened only to withdraw election-related equipment, but had been confronted by major obstacles, including voters forming a human chain to stop police officers from leaving polling stations.
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On New Year's Day, a "human chain" — a frequent form of protest in India — stood shoulder to shoulder along highways in southern India, creating a wall 300 miles long, according to Communist Party officials.
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In general, Mr. Zambada said, in a nonchalant manner, the cartel's cocaine originated in Colombia and was shipped by fast boats to Cancun, where it was brought ashore by a human chain of haulers.
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A robot assigned to patrol the outside of a library would be swarmed with kids that would try to play with the robot, blocking its path and even forming a human chain surrounding it.
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On Tuesday, the state government backed a protest by thousands of women, who formed a 620 km (385 mile) human chain, termed the "women's wall", in support of "gender equality" and access to the temple.
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Protesters from "No Justice, No Pride" certainly weren't interested in the company's transformation when they formed a human chain around Lockheed Martin's float at Capital Pride last Thursday, bringing the parade to a stumbling halt.
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Though the fires are still burning, a rescue team led by the hospital began to search the periphery last week, walking in a human chain, their necks strained toward the tree canopy, searching for survivors.
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On two weekends each month, four or five events will relate to a specific volume, beginning this month with "Death of a Naturalist" and ending in September with his last work, "Human Chain," from 2010.
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Wearing white masks to fight off the dust, they formed a human chain, passing from hand to hand all they could salvage from the gravelly destruction of the earthquake that struck this region in August.
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The human chain was planned to stretch a 40 km (25 miles) along the city's metro, with many people wearing humorous and eccentric masks in defiance on a ban on covering faces at public rallies.
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At high tide, the team gets one shot to send the whales back into the water and form a human chain in the surf to keep the animals from coming back and accidentally beaching themselves again.
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A bent bulkhead nail — nearly a foot long — cues the story of Joseph Zappula, a longshoreman who, in 1950, was on the end of the human chain that pulled little Diana Svet from the Gowanus Bay.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Protesters formed a human chain across Hong Kong Friday evening in a show of solidarity for the city's pro-democracy protest movement that continues to gain traction almost three months after it began.
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"It was not a mere human chain, but a human wall against the violation of the principles of the Constitution," said Kerala's Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, addressing a public meeting in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram.
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Planned Parenthood supporters and other opponents of the Republican effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare formed a human chain around the Capitol Wednesday afternoon in a massive protest amid GOP attempts to save their healthcare bill.
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Gold, silver and gem-inlaid chalices, candelabras and many other artefacts survived the blaze thanks to quick-thinking firefighters, police and city employees who formed a human chain to move revered artefacts away from the flames.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people from Spain's Basque Country joined hands to form a human chain running some 202 kilometers (125 miles) on Sunday to call for the right to hold a regional independence vote.
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Dozens of people stepped in to form a human chain at Panama City Beach, Florida on Sunday to rescue at least one swimmer trapped in a deadly rip current brought on by tropical storm Barry, authorities say.
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Just like in Hands Across America — the 1986 benefit where millions of people held hands in a human chain across the country to raise money for charity — the Tethered join hands at various points in the movie.
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The rescue took nearly an hour, Ursrey told The Washington Post, and everyone who was stranded was treading water for at least 20 minutes before Simmons and the rest of the human chain could pull them out.
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Several European media outlets have reported that the chaplain of the Paris Fire Department, Father Jean-Marc Fournier, retrieved the crown, which arrived in Paris in the 13th century, amid the blaze by using a human chain.
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On Tuesday, rescuers in with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and Clearwater Marine Aquarium created a human chain to transport trapped dolphins from the St. Petersburg canal back to Tampa Bay, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
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After long hours of labor under Nazi overseers, they stayed up all night, removing bags of dirt from the tunnel and passing them along a human chain to be stacked behind the walls to hide their activity.
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On New Year's Day, millions of women, led by Kerala's Communist government, formed a human chain that stretched over 620 kilometers (385 miles) from the northernmost tip of the state, to the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram, in the south.
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A very '80s charity drive (one of its organizers helped create the '85 benefit hit "We Are the World"), it had Americans holding hands from coast to coast, making a human chain meant to fight hunger and homelessness.
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Four years ago, in October 2015, Little, Hollis, and nine other students interrupted the homecoming parade, forming a human chain that blocked then–university president Tim Wolfe's car, demanding that he address a series of racist incidents on campus.
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A group of neighbors in the Nashville neighborhood of Hermitage formed a human chain on Monday to protect a member of their community and his 12-year-old son as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sought to carry out an arrest.
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Every previous Ebola outbreak has been snuffed out through a tried-and-true strategy called "contact tracing": isolating those related to the sick before they had a chance to infect anyone else, and thus interrupting the human chain of transmission.
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According to The Guardian, father Jean-Marc Fournier — the chaplain of the Paris Fire Department — helped in a human chain of first responders who worked together to save religious relics from the world-famous landmark, which suddenly caught aflame Monday night.
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Many heroic rescues have been taking place in the area: These people formed a human chain to save an elderly man and a CNN correspondent helped a man from his truck that was about to be swept away in a flood.
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At another mall, protesters locked police out of the mall using cable ties and umbrellas, according to the AP. Police later stormed the Cityplaza shopping complex after protesters graffitied a restaurant and broke a human chain of several dozen people.
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On Sunday, about 250 people formed a human chain from October Books' old stockroom all the way along 54 doors of high street to the store's new location, passing a total of 2,000 books by hand in just a few hours.
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"When Daesh targeted the mosque and minaret a few month ago, the people of Mosul formed a human chain to protect the site, proving once again that the protection of heritage cannot be delinked from the protection of human lives," she said.
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On Tuesday, a human chain stretching for more than 600 kilometers (372 miles) was formed by millions of women in the southern Indian state of Kerala to demand entry to a major Hindu temple that traditionally barred women of child-bearing age.
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In 1830, just twenty-seven years after colonization, Tasmania's lieutenant-governor called on the military, and every able-bodied male, to join a human chain that would stretch across the settled areas of the island and sweep the native people into exile.
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Read more: 14 rescuers created a human chain to save 4 dolphins in FloridaIn order to find the beloved dog, Carole King quit her job as a postal carrier, and bought night-vision goggles and animal-tracking cameras to help search for Katie.
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A group of local farmers came out to protest the authorities' actions; according to advocacy organizations, there were more than 1,000 peasants involved in the demonstration, and they made a human chain around the plantations in the middle of a tropical forest.
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HONG KONG, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Hong Kong is preparing for a weekend of demonstrations, including a human chain at major subway lines on Friday and a democracy march on Sunday, the latest moves in more than four months of anti-government protests.
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Another thread follows Brittany Ferrell and Alexis Templeton, a couple navigating parenthood and school, and putting themselves at considerable risk as they lead and participate in demonstrations like one in which they formed a human chain to block traffic on a highway.
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Mid Autumn-themed protests are scheduled throughout Friday and into the weekend, including a repeat of the "Hong Kong Way," a citywide human chain formed last month to coincide with the 30th anniversary of a similar protest in the Baltics against Soviet occupation.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Four-hundred-year-old paintings hung high inside Notre-Dame were damaged by the immense fire that engulfed the Paris cathedral, but emergency workers formed a human chain to whisk gem-studded chalices and other priceless artefacts out of harm's way.
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CUCUTA, Colombia (Reuters) - A convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian assistance for Venezuela will be unloaded at the Simon Bolivar bridge on Colombia's side of the border and the aid will be transported by a human chain across the frontier, Colombia's migration agency said on Saturday.
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After a riptide trapped six members of Roberta Ursrey's family, and three other swimmers, in its current on Saturday, onlookers at the beach worked together to form an impromptu human chain and rescue those struggling to stay above water, reports the Panama City News Herald.
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Chain of Freedom explores the extraordinary event that took place on August 23, 1989 that brought international attention to the Soviet occupation of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania: an estimated two million people held hands and formed a human chain across all the three Baltic countries.
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At one point, firefighters, policemen and municipal workers formed a human chain to remove the treasures, including a centuries-old crown of thorns made from reeds and gold, and the tunic believed to have been worn by Saint Louis, a 13th century king of France.
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For two hours, a dozen soil-dusted, sweaty men and women from the Prospect Park Alliance formed a human chain that stretched down a small hill, passing tulip trees, elderberry plants, American holly and other potted native flora hand to hand to hand to hand.
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The first time we meet young Adelaide (Madison Curry), she's watching a promotional video for Hands Across America, a benefit event in which more than 6 million people held hands in a human chain that spanned the continental United States for 15 minutes on May 25,1986.
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One video showed a human chain that was formed to save a woman from her car:A state of emergency was declared in Howard County, and people have been advised to "avoid the [Main Street] area because of gas leaks and downed power lines," according to NBC.
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This summer, the Washington, DC–based No Justice No Pride, a group seeking to protest the corporatization of pride and center queer people of color in celebrations, saw widespread media coverage when they formed a human chain to block participants from Lockheed Martin at Capital Pride.
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A human chain in Cityplaza, in the eastern suburb of Taikoo Shing, turned into a bloody face-to-face conflict with police, running up and down escalators where families with young children had been window shopping just minutes before and watching skating on the ice rink.
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In the House of Commons on Thursday, the prime minister said: Read more: A human chain of protesters stopped Boris Johnson's car as he went to meet the QueenHowever, just hours later, his father Stanley spoke to Press TV about his son becoming UK prime minister.
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"We worked so hard, in a human chain, to get those manuscripts out of the mud," said Michael Pulman, who was a teacher in the study-abroad program for Florida State University in Florence, one of the first American colleges to start such a program here.
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Video via the Palm Bay Police and Fire Departments' Facebook page A woman captured the hectic moments following a car accident on Sunday when a few bystanders helped police rescue a man from his burning vehicle by forming a human chain, a local CBS affiliate reports.
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They have come from a village at the end of a road, a place so conservative that the single time they went to a movie theater, their male cousins and uncles created a human chain around them, their big hands linked, to protect them from any contact with outside men.
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Their protests have included a day when hundreds of the intelligentsia sat before Town Hall under black umbrellas, blowing shrill whistles; a "Hug-VAG" day; a human chain; and a day when the artists painted, drew, sculpted, and crafted at the VAG in a bid to emphasize its value as a public space.
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And while it included celebrations of corporations and police, it was also disrupted: A group under the banner of No Justice No Pride interrupted the parade, at one point forming a human chain in front of parade attendees from Lockheed Martin, the multibillion-dollar corporation that manufactures weapons for the US government.
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Read more:'Everyone should be worried' about a no-deal Brexit warns Britain's former Brexit chiefDonald Trump welcomes Boris Johnson's victory as the 'Britain Trump'Ivanka Trump mistakenly congratulates Boris Johnson on becoming prime minister of the 'United Kingston'A human chain of protesters stopped Boris Johnson's car as he went to meet the Queen
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Read more:A 'mini tsunami' from Hurricane Dorian drowned 28 wild horses on islands off the coast of North CarolinaThousands of tarantulas are making their creepy, crawly migration in ColoradoAn art student trained her pet rat to make paintings with his feet — and it's delightful14 rescuers created a human chain to save 4 dolphins in Florida
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In at least two cases, one in Houston and one in the Nashville area in Tennessee, neighbors intervened (by sending a warning in the first case and forming a protective human chain in the second) and kept ICE from detaining anyone—keeping fears from being realized, even if their source is still at large.
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Healy noted the response from a local chapter of the motorcycle group Angel Riders for Justice, which contacted the funeral home to offer themselves as a protective barrier if needed, and the Human Chain Link for Pulse Funerals Facebook group counted nearly 30,000 members by Friday, two days after launching online to provide a similar service.
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By the end, hundreds of people were chanting on Booker's every word as organizers urged the crowd to reconvene for "the People's Filibuster" (an action at the Capitol over health care from 2 to 7 pm on Tuesday) and for a "human chain" of linked arms that's set to form around the Capitol building on Wednesday.
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Read more:Video shows dozens of Florida beachgoers forming a human chain to rescue a swimmer from a rip currentA new 'whale trail' in Scotland lets visitors spot dolphins and whales from 33 different sites along the country's coastThe song of one of the rarest whales in the world has been recorded by scientists for the first time
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When, at the end of the show, a group of black-suited security guards emerged, joined hands and formed a human chain, protecting … it was not clear exactly what, and then began to whisper among themselves in confusion only to disappear whence they came, it only served to underscore the head-scratching nature of it all.
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It ends with a human sculpture that Ettun has been contemplating for 12 years, a reflection on overcoming "self-inflicted limitations and being trapped inside yourself": the movers form a human chain by threading strands of their hair, like shoelaces, through each other's sneakers, then crawl awkwardly off stage in their pink spandex shorts, foot tied to head tied to foot.
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READ MORE: A human chain of protesters stopped Boris Johnson's car as he went to meet the QueenREAD MORE: Boris Johnson said he was a 'fan' of the EU and wanted Britain to stay in the Single Market after BrexitEuropean Council President Donald Tusk — who Johnson must deal with in order to renegotiate the Brexit deal — congratulated the new prime minister in a tweet.
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Read more:A 'mini tsunami' from Hurricane Dorian drowned 28 wild horses on islands off the coast of North CarolinaA Washington woman quit her full-time job and spent 57 days looking for her dog, which is honestly very relatable14 rescuers created a human chain to save 4 dolphins in FloridaNorth America has lost nearly 3 billion birds in the last 50 years — another sign that we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
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