...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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...The events that unfolded at Charlottesville this August were appalling. Bottles of urine were thrown at protesters and possibly policemen, many were injured and there was a large amount of violence. All of this is despicable of course, but the worst issue is how the liberal media has covered it. Media outlet upon media outlet bashes the Unite the Right ralliers, swathing them all under the same, universal definitions. That is, “Nazis, white supremacists, anti-Semites,” etc. The Charlottesville “riots” have vindicated the already well-known liberal bias of the United States media. There is a large disparity between the assumed events at Charlottesville, and what had happened in actuality. Let us assume for a moment that the mass media’s lies...
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...Protest is the recurring theme in Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Originated in his political stance to bring change within the society through revolution, protest is explored both through the content and through the structure of the play. At one level, protest is explored thematically through an absurd situation: a madman investigating ‘accidental death’ of an anarchist by questioning those officials who were involved in the interrogation. Whereas on the other hand, protest is structurally represented by employing multiple aspects of various theatrical traditions in the character of madman– as the protagonist who successfully convinces the audience to believe all that he exposes despite his repeated insistence that he is insane....
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...What are pressure groups A pressure group can be described as an organised group that does not put up candidates for election, but seeks to influence government policy or legislation. They can also be described as ‘interest groups’, ‘lobby groups’ or ‘protest groups’. Some people avoid using the term ‘pressure group’ as it can inadvertently be interpreted as meaning the groups use actual pressure to achieve their aims, which does not necessarily happen. In Britain, the number of political parties is very small, whereas the number of pressure groups runs into thousands; as the membership of political parties has fallen, that of pressure groups has increased. The term pressure group is a very wide definition that does not clearly distinguish between the groups that fall under the term. For example, a pressure group can be a huge organisation like the CBI (Confederation of British Industry), which represents 150,000 businesses, and it can also be a single-issue locally based organisation like CLARA (Central Area Leamington Resident’s Association), which represents less than 300 households campaigning to preserve and improve the town of Leamington Spa. The definition also does not distinguish between the more extreme pressure groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, whose campaigns include the illegal activities such as planting bombs, and the pressure groups such as the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), which have links to the Labour government and regular contact...
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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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...Introduction Since the rise of Internet in early 1990s the world’s networked population has grown from the low millions to the low billions. Over the same period, social media has become a fact of life for civil society worldwide. Regular citizens, companies, activists, NGO’s, software providers and last but not least government and politics use social media as a new form of communication (Foreignaffairs, 2011). One of the most famous politicians who started to use the power of social media in his political campaigns was Barack Obama. The key differenc of Obama’s campaign strategy in contrast to his competitors was that Obama used social media to communicate and organize individuals by using social media. By using technologies such as computers, cell phones, web sites and many more he reached the goal of every politicians to connect his followers, delivered them with interesting news as well as to build up a strong community. Nevertheless not only Obama tooke advantage of the undeniable power of Social Media and its technologies. Over the past years our society realized it’s power, and there might only be few companies left in the western world that are not represented on at least one Social Media Platform (Obama Buch). But maybe one of the most important topics when we’re talking about Social Media is the reachability of Mass and therefore the political Mass Movements that keep emerging from Social Media Platforms. We might only think about the Occupy Movement, Arab Spring...
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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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...David Graeber likes to say that he had three goals for the year: promote his book, learn to drive, and launch a worldwide revolution. The first is going well, the second has proven challenging, and the third is looking up. Graeber is a 50-year-old anthropologist—among the brightest, some argue, of his generation—who made his name with innovative theories on exchange and value, exploring phenomena such as Iroquois wampum and the Kwakiutl potlatch. An American, he teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. He’s also an anarchist and radical organizer, a veteran of many of the major left-wing demonstrations of the past decade: Quebec City and Genoa, the Republican National Convention protests in Philadelphia and New York, the World Economic Forum in New York in 2002, the London tuition protests earlier this year. This summer, Graeber was a key member of a small band of activists who quietly planned, then noisily carried out, the occupation of Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, providing the focal point for what has grown into an amorphous global movement known as Occupy Wall Street. It would be wrong to call Graeber a leader of the protesters, since their insistently nonhierarchical philosophy makes such a concept heretical. Nor is he a spokesman, since they have refused thus far to outline specific demands. Even in Zuccotti Park, his name isn’t widely known. But he has been one of the group’s most articulate voices, able to frame the movement’s welter of hopes and grievances...
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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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...Corporate Citizenship refers to an organization's commitment to social and environmental responsibility worldwide not only locally or regionally. With this in mind, i do believe that gap did just so. When they became the target of various protest by human rights groups who alleged that gap's products were made in sweat shops where children were employed and people were under paid. Instead of denying these charges gap turned to SAI to help develop a Code Of Vendor Conduct. Yes i think that they did. Elementary Stage- They reacted when they started to get bad publicity from these allegations. Engaged Stage- They listened to the protesters and enlisted the help of SAI to develop a software that will enable them to keep a close eye on the vendors that they do business with and to ensure that these vendors followed the code of conduct. Innovative Stage- They updated its code by including other form of unnacceptable discrimination. They also made it a requirement for factories not to interfere with workers rights to organize and bargain collectively. Intergrated stage- To assure that vendors were complying they hired VCOs. These Vendor Compliance Officers were from the communities where they worked therefore the language and customs were not a problem. These VCOs aiudited more than 1000 factories in more than 50 countries. Transforming Stage- Gap worked with other contracters to remedy problems that arose. They also adopted the view of find,fix and prevent. They partnered with...
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...Twenty years of this type of campaigning paid off, when in 1914 the South African government made several concessions to the Indian people living there. After the First World War, Gandhi decided to concentrate on improving life in his native India. His ideology was well received and he soon had a healthy following that regularly practised passive resistance. The British government didn’t like the campaigning and deemed it to be revolutionary. Consequently, British troops massacred many innocent Indians at a demonstration in 1920. This caused Gandhi to instigate a policy of non-cooperation towards the Brits. Indians began removing their children from government run schools and masses of people began squatting in the streets to protest. Even when faced with physical punishments, such as being beaten with a truncheon, they would refuse to...
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...Introduction 17th Sep. 2011, a usual workday, but not in New York, where thousands of people gathered in the center of Manhattan city for one aim: Occupy the Wallstreet. Unlike previous demonstrations where in the world, protesters joining this movement are spontaneously organized though Internet, get together to show their strong dissatisfactions towards American social conditions, including money-power deal, social injustice, and political maneuver. Demonstrators claim that government only regard the benefits of the wealthiest 1%, while leave the 99% ordinary people out in cold. Within days, the movement began to gain momentum, by 17th Oct, the protest have affected many major US cities including Washington, and with an increasingly lager scale than ever before. The movement signals American people’s strong dissatisfaction towards the marriage between the money and power, and further exposed an artificial nature of the American democracy. The leakage between money and power is a permanent theme of capitalism. In American, money has been said breast-feeding the politics, serves as an in indispensible lubricant that oils the mechanisms of the American political system, exerts incomparable impact on political elections and decision-making process. Without the back of money, politicians are impossible to get power; however excellent they may be. Take the 2008 presidential election as an example, Obama himself only have spend a record high amount of 75000000 dollar. While most...
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...not just on a large scale; if an individual person wants to change something, he or she will indeed need to take action and have the courage to face the dangers it might involve. Just how important taking action can be, is dramatically demonstrated in Margaret Murphy’s story “Low Visibility”, where the suppressed wife Laura stands up against her violent, dominant husband. The plot revolves around 2 persons, a man and woman, sitting on their couch watching the news. We soon discover that the man, named John, and the woman, whose name we aren’t told, are husband and wife. The news broadcast a violent protest action taking place in their city, which the man is watching eagerly, commenting on the barbaric behavior of the rebels every now and then. The woman keeps quiet, because she doesn’t dare to say that she actually feels a great admiration for the people, who have gathered to protest. Why she fears to say her opinion is revealed seconds later, as John deliberately drills his fingers into her thigh, causing her tremendous pain. Because indeed John is anything but a loving and caring husband. As the plot evolves we learn more and more about his violent, demoralizing tendencies and his dictatorial way of controlling their marriage. And it is John’s dictatorship and the woman’s struggle to survive it that becomes the essential problem in the story. As the protesting crowd approaches their part of the city, the woman has...
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...Subtheme: DEVELOPMENT OF 21st CENTURY CITIZENSHIP ‘Social media’: Concurrent power to citizens’ voice. Ajita Deshmukh Ph.D scholar Hansraj Jivandas College of Education, Mumbai Abstract: Today, we struggle with extremes- that of apathy towards civic participation on one hand and on the other hand, witness campaigns and protests against an existing system. Much of transformation has been brought about in the society recently in various spheres; right of women to enter certain religious places, voices against corruption to name a few where there was large scale public participation. Public engagement and participation is manifestation of civic literacy- a 21st century skill, which is a pre-requisite for transparent, democratic governance. The ubiquitous social networking today, integrated with every sphere of one's daily life including education, holds potential of being used in different ways to make civic education more engaging and meaningful. Most of the youth today, is active on one or more social media with high participation. Large scale participation on social media campaigns for 'causes' like the Ice bucket challenge has shown that social media can have a wider impact...
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...memorable protests in the history of the United States. During the time of the Vietnam War, our country had a military draft in place. The draft entailed that every boy in the United States, once he turned 18, was thrown into a pool of eligible people to be chosen at random and sent to war. This aspect alone caused much discomfort throughout the country. Although it was a time of war, there weren’t too many willing participants who were ready to fight for what was right. Those in opposition of the draft did just about anything they could in order to avoid it. Some moved away to different countries and others rioted in major cities around the country. Some, in protest, would openly tear and burn their draft papers. One of the most well known people to do this was heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali. (Historylearningsite) For those with the money and credentials, going to college was another option. Former President George W. Bush was actually one of the men to dodge the draft by being accepted into a prestigious college. The biggest protest groups during this time period were teenagers and young adults, mostly college students. They believed that the draft was unfair and brought much stress to the country. They also firmly believed that the war was unnecessary and the fighting should cease immediately. No one really understood why American blood was being shed in a country that we had nothing to do with. College campuses were major hotspots for student protests. Members of...
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