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Recent street demonstrations could easily turn into an outbreak of ongoing resistance to Israeli rule.
A lack of economic opportunities was a major driver of the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt, and others.
Then comes the 20th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square student demonstrations.
The demonstrations in Washington are certain to gain worldwide attention as the best show in town.
The most important reason for ignoring these shouts is that, behind the scenes but not really hidden, the chief force organizing the demonstrations is America's organized labor, a movement with terrible problems with free trade (Nafta, trade with China, the WTO), anything, indeed, that looks like a global free market.
The Seattle and Washington demonstrations make another point: If CNN turned the world into a global village, the Internet goes 6 steps further.
Reports on peasant and worker demonstrations against corrupt officials and illegal property confiscations have been banned.
Kuwait now allows women to vote, Qatar has embraced an ambitious reform program, Bahrain has shown great tolerance of mass demonstrations, and the U.A.E. is allowing something like a free press.
Likewise, a study of demonstrations in Germany earlier this year found that YouTube’s algorithm systematically directed users toward extremist content because that was where the “clicks” and revenue were greatest.
Others lack credibility among moderate citizens but can mobilize demonstrations that demand the attention of governments.
Mobilizing mass demonstrations around whether you “are” or “are not” Charlie Hebdo invites demagoguery from extreme factions in all societies that gain from fueling sectarian conflict.
And his undeniable success in implementing his labor laws, exemplified by sparse street demonstrations, has been undermined by his irrepressible will to provocation, reflected in his gratuitous remark that “today when there is a strike in France, no one notices it!”
The unprecedented demonstrations against Syria’s occupation of Lebanon following the assassination of its former prime minister, Rafiq al-Hariri, show no signs of abating.
Today’s marches and demonstrations are a feeble reminder of those times, while parties everywhere are hemorrhaging members.
Most were not students, who started the peaceful demonstrations against corruption and autocracy, but ordinary workers, the sort of people a Communist Party ought to be standing up for.
And mass demonstrations certainly were not going to achieve it.
There is, however, no evidence that even the most radical students ever had such ambitions, and the demonstrations had been entirely peaceful.
As to whether the demonstrations were doomed to end in failure and bloodshed, this too is easy to say in hindsight.
Demonstrations alone almost never topple a regime, but they can do so in combination with other political shifts, which can happen suddenly.
When Rafsanjani, the patriarch of Iran’s moderate forces, died in January, his funeral was the occasion for one of the largest demonstrations in the Islamic Republic’s history.
The demonstrations have now become what is essentially a popular uprising, with Venezuela’s people calling on the armed forces to evict the regime from power.
More ominously, following riots the regime put 16 opposition members on trial for taking part in the demonstrations, with prosecutors indicating that some would be charged with the offense of mohareb , or “making a war against God” – a capital crime.
This can be measured in public opinion polls, in newspaper editorials, congressional resolutions, summit declarations, and street demonstrations.
If it did - and if it met those demands - Islamists would not be able to hijack the demonstrations.
Street demonstrations, elections, and political debate in cafes and on the Internet are flowering as never before.
Questions about the mosque lingered for months afterward, with small demonstrations at the proposed site organized by people who had no connection to the neighborhood.
Demonstrations by bus drivers, school teachers, women’s rights activists, and students have been brutally suppressed, with dozens of arrests.
The recent killings have inflamed public opinion, sparking mass demonstrations to demand justice for the victims and more effective government protection of secularist writers.
The rival claims date back to the late nineteenth century, but the recent flare-up, which led to widespread anti-Japanese demonstrations in China, started in September when Japan’s government purchased three of the tiny islets from their private Japanese owner.
Offering workers legal redress has turned their attention temporarily from the streets to mediation and may well have reduced the number of street demonstrations.
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