...Shaping the Future of Our Nation “People believe that the youth of this country are insignificant. People believe that the youth have no voice. I say that we were the only people who could have made this movement possible” (Wind). This is one of the many ideas that shaped the March for Our Lives Campaign. Protesters gather across the United States to show support for what they believe in. This is surprisingly similar to the Vietnam War Protest which occurred about 40 years prior. Both of these protests are alike because they both use songs, chants, inspirational speakers, and rallies to be heard. Protestors are striving for a change and will do anything to accomplish this. To start off, the Vietnam War Protest and the March for Our Lives...
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...Protest is patriotic. Patriotism means to stand by your country, be loyal to it, and work for the benefit to the country. To protest means to show that someone disagrees with something. Protest is patriotic because when people protest they are usually working to benefit the country. The Vietnam death chart shows that there were a lot of deaths in Vietnam. In the Mistake graph the opinions of the public change drastically around the time there were a lot of deaths in Vietnam. The people protested and they didn’t want there to be more needless deaths in Vietnam. This shows that the people want the country to be better off and not have that many deaths. In the John Kerry Testimony he states that the Americans were harming civilians and destroying...
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...Protest music helps people realize they aren’t alone. Many folk musicians wrote about their disapproval to America’s involvement during the Vietnam War. A highly influential folk musician was Bob Dylan. He wrote the song “The Times They Are A-Changin.” In this song, he says “there’s a battle outside, and it’s ragin’, it’ll soon shake your windows, rattle your walls.” One can argue that these lyrics were an obvious reference to the Vietnam War. “Edwin Starr’s Motown anthem “War” convinced many listeners of the complex horrors of the Vietnam War through an instantly-recognizable melody. The song, written in 1969, is perhaps the most direct anti-war protest song ever recorded” (Hopkins, 2012). Hopkins and many other musicians from the era made music to attract audiences against...
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...Essential Vietnam War Protest Songs http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/with-god-on-our-side Bob Dylan: With God on Our Side - Lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WORWWDxEcY0&feature=related Bob Dylan: With God on Our Side - original recording http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/masters-of-war Bob Dylan: Masters of War lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRobFQchS0 Bob Dylan: Masters of War original recording http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blowin-in-the-wind Bob Dylan: Blowin in the Wind lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zY_cM0_6vA Bob Dylan: Blowin in the Wind original recording http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/BornInTheUSA.html Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oVzHm_S0-A Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA original recording http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/creedence+clearwater+revival/fortunate+son_20034362.html Creedence Clearwater Revival_ Fortune Son lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUUYlztf064 Creedence Clearwater Revival_ Fortune Son recording http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYJVqpSddMM Creedence Clearwater Revival_Run through the Jungle recording http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/creedence+clearwater+revival/run+through+the+jungle_20034316.html Creedence Clearwater Revival_Run through the Jungle lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai5RzZ6D0bg&feature=related The Doors - Unknown Soldier recording http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/doors/the+unknown+soldier_20042775.html The Doors - Unknown Soldier...
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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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...soldiers and police. In all, 647 arrests were made. A plot to airdrop 10,000 flowers on the Pentagon was foiled by undercover agents. After the airdrop was halted the flowers intended for the airdrop were placed in the barrels of officer’s rifles resulting in the iconic images from the “flower power” movement. The slogan “flower power”, coined by poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965, was used by the American counter-culture resistance as a symbolic action of protest against the Vietnam War. A surge of peaceful demonstration protesters were handed masses of flowers to offer policemen, press, and politicians as retaliation and defiance against the war. The flowers served two purposes: one as symbols of passive resistance of non-violence and secondly as emblems to reduce negative energy and connotations associated with feelings of fear, anger, threats, prosecution - all which were frequent results of these anti-war demonstrations. Photographs of flower-wielding protesters at the Pentagon March became seminal images of the 1960s anti-war protests. The image I chose to analyze is a photo by French photojournalist Marc Riboud of a seventeen-year-old high school student, Jan Rose Kasmir, clasping a daisy and gazing at bayonet-wielding soldiers on the steps of the Pentagon. This photo embodies the flower power movement by illustrating a strategic juxtaposition of armed forces against flower power innocence. The lighting of the picture helps develop this juxtaposition. It creates a brightness...
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...disobedience has been a positive way to impact a free society. One example of this was the walk out movement in East Los Angeles. The movement began when Mexican American students left Homeroom before roll call. As school funding was determined by attendance rate. The students did this because the school board would not hear their demands. After a week of protests...
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...The Wall of Respect and the Black Power Movement In 1966, former leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Stokely Carmichael definitively introduced the term “black power” into popular consciousness at a rally in Mississippi. The Movement that would subsequently take the name “Black Power” evolved quickly, most fundamentally from the philosophy of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) founder Marcus Garvey, who, earlier in the twentieth century, opposed racial integration in favor of a self-reliant black nation. During the 1960s, Malcolm X’s rhetoric of empowerment and the militancy of groups such as the Black Panther Party more directly influenced the character of the Movement. The Wall of Respect’s creation bears striking resemblance to the beginning of the Black Power Movement. For as central as the Wall of Respect was to the beginnings of the Community Mural Movement in the United States and to redevelopment and beautification efforts on Chicago’s South Side in the 1960s, its cultural significance cannot be addressed as separate from or as merely coincidental to the Black Power Movement. Rather, the Wall of Respect was as integral to the evolution of the Movement as the Movement was to the life of the Wall. In partic ular, the condition of the Wall’s creation, celebration, and demise reflect the major stages of the Black Power Movement’s development in the 1960s. Like the Black Power Movement, the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC)...
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...Running head: SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE There’s Something Happening Here: Occupying Wall Street Mindy Newell, R.N., CNOR Grand Canyon University NRS – 432V Teresa Ortner, RNC, MSNEd October 8, 2011 There’s Something Happening Here: Occupying Wall Street The Plan of Action On September 17, 2011, nearly 1,000 protesters gathered around the symbolic sculpture of a charging bull that is the focal point of Bowling Green Park, which is in the financial district of downtown Manhattan, to say to the kings of Wall Street “Enough! No more! You will not continue to profit on the broken backs and weary shoulders of we, the people! You will not destroy the American dream with your greed!” They did not leave, but hoisted tents and unrolled sleeping bags to “Occupy Wall Street” (Smith, 2011). Since that day, the movement has spread across the country, from New York up the coast to Boston, down the coast through Washington to Miami, and across the country through Chicago and St. Louis all the way to Los Angeles, from large metropolises to small towns across America. It has become a genuine social and political movement, utilizing both old media such as newspapers and television news and new media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube (Ellis, Raja & Follman, 2011). Major labor unions, such as National Nurses United, the AFL-CIO, the Communications Workers of America, the United Auto Workers, the United Federation of Teachers, the Writers Guild...
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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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