2011: These Belgium Shoes

A worker in the non-profit sector, which includes nurses and social workers, throws his shoes onto the steps of the stock exchange building, during a protest in Brussels, March 29, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Thierry Roge

An image depicting another example of shoes throwing, sent to us from Joanne Rice.

Accompanying article:

REUTERS US Edition

BRUSSELS - Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:58am EDT
Analysis: Should the world be more like Belgium?
By Philip Blenkinsop

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/us-belgium-idUSTRE72T1AO20110330

2011 The Return of Shoes in Politics - Part 1

Shoe Throwing in the Middle East Redux

February 10, 2011 EGYPT: Shoes held up in protest



Anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square wave shoes in dismay as President Hosni Mubarak speaks to the nation February 10, 2011. Mubarak provoked rage on Egypt's streets on Thursday when he said he would hand powers to his deputy but disappointed protesters who had been expecting him to step down altogether after two weeks of unrest. Leave! Leave! chanted thousands who had gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square in anticipation that a televised speech would be the moment their demands for an end to Mubarak's 30 years of authoritarian, one-man rule were met. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Source:
http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/02/the-egypt-protests-the-shoes-come-out/

February 24, 2011 BEIRUT - Return of Iraq's Shoe Thrower

Evan Vucci / AP

Time online article about Muntazer al-Zaidi
The Return of Iraq's Shoe Thrower: A Rebel's New Cause
By Nicholas Blanford
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2049523,00.html