...key areas of the society whether it is locally, regionally, or even nationally. When it comes to positive or negative impacts of peaceful resistances toward the laws of a free society, I tend to lean towards more of the positive influences as I am a firm believer in non violent acts of disobedience and history can back me up on this. When we travel back to the civil rights movement era, there has definitely been many violent and non violent resistances displayed throughout the era but when you look at the results as a big picture I believe that peaceful protests were what made the civil rights movement a success. Before the civil rights movement protests seemed to come in...
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...Peaceful protest and resistance to laws is what makes freedom in a society. Without the ability to protest and discuss laws in a peaceful manner there would be no real freedom in the world. Without this inalienable right the government would be able to do whatever it pleased with no backlash. Currently there is a peaceful protest going on right now as this essay is being typed. The Women's march is a protest against the mistreatment and prejudice of women. Also another large reason of the protest is the election of Donald Trump. Many women dislike Trump for his ideals and some remarks he has made in the past. This protest proves how important peaceful protesting is. Even though it is not against a law, it is against an establishment of the...
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...on issues they disagree with. Therefore, it is completely legal and considered an inalienable right to peacefully protest. Peaceful protests can positively affect society in the fact that they can bring attention to an issue, but negatively impact society in the fact that they fail to bring about any actual change immediately. During Andrew Jackson's presidency, Native Americans were scattered all across the United States, save the northeast where most industrial centers were. Andrew Jackson saw this as the "Indian Problem" and felt that the only way for America to truly be America was to encourage Manifest Destiny. Jackson organized the forced removal of Native Americans, but some resisted. In the Cherokee Indian Resistance to Forced Relocation, a group of Cherokee Natives stood their ground and refused to move. However, the United States military possesses a massive amount of power, and the Natives were unsuccessful. These Cherokees were forced to start upon the Trail...
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...Peaceful protest has been a method that has been practiced by many organizations and individuals that has proved the success of the method and has been advantageous to the improvement of society. A form of peaceful protest that has shown to be a success was the technique of peacefully resisting to laws that organizations or individuals saw as unfit. This technique has been used many times before and still today as it is seen as symbolic to many people. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impact a free society proven by the success of Martin Luther King Jr's principle of non violent protest like the Montgomery bus boycott and currently San Francisco's 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's peaceful protest against the unjustness of police...
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...To Protest or to Riot? The Real Definition of Protest A Black Lives Matter protest occurs on the street but instead of calmly and amicably telling drivers and pedestrians about the issue; they block traffic and screech at anyone who is present. Merriam-Webster defines protest as “the act of objecting or a gesture of disapproval ; especially : a usually organized public demonstration of disapproval.” The form of “protest” that is taking the streets by storm is more destructive than any of its predecessors. The truth needs to be revealed about this new form. The word needs a revision in the dictionary so that the mass media will correctly use it in any of its broadcasts. Protesting in today’s society has gone from being completely peaceful...
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...and stronger precautions that can prevent the wrongful death of innocent children. Peaceful demonstrations by student activist should be allowed on school campuses. Activists have the constitutional right to peacefully demonstrate.“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the...
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...His diction is wisely chosen as it is intelligent yet understandable, which presents that he is educated but can address the average person. The speech is loaded with tone that is rigid, at some points even angry and he directly addresses the audience with powerful imagery and accusations. He defaces the use of peaceful protest and states that there are two options, either proper human rights, or violence. He projects his words with confidence, words that together will go down in history as one of the most empowering speeches ever spoken into...
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...King believes it is right to protest peacefully because they are fighting for their God-given freedom. He thinks it is also right to protest because African Americans helped get America to where it is today. Not only are African Americans protesting for their God-given freedom, but their involvement with the country also lets them protest for their American-given freedom. King utilizes rhetorical questions to create a critical tone. He sarcastically speaks about how long his letter is in comparison to all of his other works. King uses sarcasm because he believes he should not be in jail: “…but what else is there to do when you are alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell other than write long letters…” (5). King also questions the police’s actions during civil rights protests. He wonders if the police’s actions are truly moral: “It is true that they have been rather disciplined in their public handling of demonstrations. In this sense they have been rather publicly “nonviolent.” But for what purpose?” (3). King does not understand why he is in jail. He believes he has not done anything wrong because all of his protests are...
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...Peaceful resistance has a positive impact on a free society and is a positive consequence of it. The people of today belong in a free society, and the many countries and regions that have a constitution that protects the freedoms of its people should protect the ones who can’t. Peaceful protest is one way for free society to stand in unity with people who can’t speak for themselves. That idea was recently exposed in the wake of President Trump’s selective immigrant ban. The people who came out to peacefully protest were standing up for the free society in the place where they lived so that it could benefit the people of an entirely different place. Without peaceful protest, there is no way to genuinely make a change. Violence is a powerful...
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...socialists. They did not just come for a one day protest they came again and again. Then other people began to take notice and the movement has been doubling in size every three days since mid September. Now there are young people, middle age and retirees, the employed and the unemployed just to name a few. How this movement has differed from other protests in the past for example, those against the Vietnam War in the 1960’s, the protestors are not just unruly mobs of young people fighting for one cause. Instead it is people with several different yet similar grievances. Contrary to the idea of Occupy Wall Street just being comprised of young people we now see that the younger element has sometimes been the majority. In this movement we see a diversity of people, varying ages, life situations, and grievances. Some are first time protestors. There are a few common denominators of the protestors but the most outstanding seems to be about economic injustice and the corporate influence on our government. Because the middle class are tired of the corporate injustices they have now come to rally for justice. It is interesting how this movement even started. The idea for the protest began in mid 2011 by a Canadian based magazine “Adbusters Media Foundation”. They did not advertise on TV, radio or bill boards. Instead they “floated” an idea through their email lists and people were immediately interested. The magazine had proposed a peaceful protest of Wall Street because of the growing disparity...
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...apart of this protest? Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is an evolving succession of demonstrations in New York City taking place in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district. The protests were introduced by the Canadian activist group Adbusters which mainly protests social and economic inequality, corporate greed, corruption and influence over government and lobbyists. The protesters’ trademark, “We are the 99%”, refers to the difference in wealth and income growth in the U.S. between the richest 1% and the remainder of the public. In the middle of 2011, the Canadian-based Adbusters Foundation, suggested an amicable occupation of Wall Street to formally complain about the corporate weight on our democracy, focus on a growing imbalance in wealth, and the vacancy of legal consequences behind the recent global financial dilemma. Senior editor of Adbusters said it was without delay adopted by all the people of the world. Adbuster’s website claims that from their “one simple demand—a presidential commission to separate money from politics—we start setting the agenda for a new America.” They publicized the event with a poster presenting a dancer on top Wall Street’s famous Charging Bull statue. The internet group Anonymous promoted that its followers take part in the protests, asking participants to overflow lower Manhattan, prepare tents and kitchens along with peaceful barriers and to simply occupy Wall Street. Other groups soon joined in the organization of the protest. The mix...
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...Social Media and Political Revolution Project 3: Research Paper Steve Gubenia Professor: Robert Zornes CMST 301 Outline I. Introduction a. Rise of digital media in political upheaval II. Body b. Social Media i. Development 1. Facebook 2. Twitter 3. YouTube 4. Others but these are “big three” ii. Attraction to sites 5. Ease of use 6. Socio-economic barriers 7. Demographics of users c. Revolution before social media iii. Regime control of media iv. Medium used to get message out 8. Slow distribution took longer to organize v. Fall of Soviet Union d. History of social media in political revolution vi. 2001 Philippines vii. Ukraine 2004 to 2014 9. Original Orange Revolution 10. Oksana Makar incident 11. President Yanukovych being ousted viii. 2009 Moldova ix. 2009 Iran “Twitter Uprising” x. 2010 Tunisia xi. 2011 Egypt “Facebook Revolution” xii. Lebanon, Syria, Libya lack of internet e. Critics of social media revolution xiii. Arguments against social media making a difference 12. Social media platforms built around weak ties making ineffective 13. Twitter’s limitations xiv. Examples of activists failing 14. 2006 Belarus ...
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... professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. | | Acts of Civil Disobedience(s) By: Team C CJS/211 - ETHICS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Instructor: MELISSA ANDREWJESKI Schedule: 10/27/2015 - 11/30/2015 Campus: ONLINE MAIN Group ID: BSHB1IZ706 Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline. Fifty-two environmental activists were arrested Monday in front of the White House as part of an ongoing protest calling on the Obama administration to reject a permit for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project, which would deliver Canada tar sands oil to refineries in Texas, and rather focus on developing clean energy. An estimated 2,000 people have signed up to hold sit-ins and commit other acts of civil disobedience outside the White House every day for the next two weeks — 162 have already been arrested since Saturday. Also joining the protest are indigenous First Nations communities in Canada and landowners along the Keystone XL pipeline’s planned route. An editorial in Sunday’s New York Times joined in calling on the State Department to reject the pipeline, noting that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production. Meanwhile, oil-industry backers of the project emphasize what they say are the economic benefits of the $7 billion proposal. As the Obama administration remains undecided whether...
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...Riot In Charlottesville No matter which side of a conflict someone believes in, history will always stay the same and never change. The recent riot in Charlottesville, Virginia represents how there were opinions going against each other, which created a peaceful assembly turn into an out of control riot. To start, the city of Charlottesville wanted to remove a memorial statue of Robert E. Lee, an American general known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. The government in Charlottesville believed that the statue represents slavery and the government does not believe in slavery anymore. However, white supremacists wanted to protest against their decision of removing this statue because they believe...
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...Peaceful resistance to laws is a positive thing for a free society. It is important that we as free peoples are able to let our governments know that we don't like what they're doing. The peaceful protests in Portland, Oregon, that have been marred by anarchists taking advantage of the civil discourse, are to let the people of the United States know that they are not okay with what is going on. It's akin to what Mohammed Ali did in the 1960's, He let the government know that He was not being represented by them in a way he agreed with. The government in most free societies today are based on the quintessential prospect of being "for the people". If some would wish to say something about the founders of the United States all one must say back is that we were founded by revolutionaries. If they had lost the war then they would have been called traitors and conspirators in our history. The fought for their rights and for their ideas, why should the people now be prevented from doing so peacefully? We have the right to freely assemble, to speak freely, and our oft cited Founding father Thomas Jefferson believes that the people have the right to take the government apart and rebuild it as they see fit. If people in the United states weren't allowed to advocate for their rights outside a courtroom or congressional hall then people...
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