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That is why even demonstrations opposing some government policy or outcome are not so much “protests against” as “appeals to” the regime.
Without fundamental change in the political system, it is unlikely that such demonstrations, even if they become more frequent, will become overtly oppositional.
Recent demonstrations have followed on the heels of the government’s forced relocation of low-income Brazilians from their favelas overlooking Rio de Janeiro into newly built housing far away – an effort aimed at preventing the World Cup from being marred by scenes of poverty and unrest.
Later this week, demonstrations calling for the government's resignation are planned, and it will become obviously more difficult for the government to continue to function.
As a political activist in the final days of Yugoslavia, I tried to build upon the philosophy of nonviolence, leading demonstrations and other forms of peaceful forms of dissent.
Massive anti-Japanese demonstrations have been held all over China, causing damage to Japanese people and properties.
Out of this crisis came the demonstrations all over China, collectively known as “Tiananmen.”
The Regional Repercussions of Honduras’s Botched ElectionMEXICO CITY – In Honduras, stolen elections, followed by accusations of fraud, street demonstrations, and military repression, are business as usual.
The peaceful demonstrations of 1989 gave millions of Chinese people their first heady taste of political freedom, and a hope that they could have a say in their nation's public life.
Thus the government has no appropriate means of dealing with the recent increases in spontaneous demonstrations by laid-off urban workers or impoverished farmers, let alone dissatisfied religious sects.
First, the government must publicly state that the 1989 demonstrations were not a "counterrevolutionary rebellion."
At the same time, a surge of extra-parliamentary mobilization occurs: more and longer strikes and more and larger demonstrations.
The average number of anti-government demonstrations triples, the frequency of violent riots doubles, and general strikes increase by at least a third.
But, while the right to peaceful protest is critically important in a democracy, electoral minorities should not use endless demonstrations to take the political system hostage.
In Syria, what started as peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations deteriorated quickly into an armed insurrection of the Sunni majority against the hegemony of the Alawite sect, led by the Assad family.
So the possibility of demonstrations, stalemate, and a new crisis cannot be discounted.
Latin America and the New Financial ArchitectureArgentina's ongoing crisis demonstrates, if demonstrations are still needed, that emerging market crises remain with us.
And in 2016, Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government faced mass demonstrations in response to many of its policies, including measures aimed at banning abortion and limiting the independence of the Constitutional Court.
There are, unfortunately, many documented cases of violent provocateurs infiltrating demonstrations in places like Toronto, Pittsburgh, London, and Athens – people whom one Greek described to me as “known unknowns.”
Nowhere is this more apparent than in Obama’s recent executive order imposing sanctions on seven mid-level Venezuelan law-enforcement and military officials, who are accused of violating protesters’ rights during last year’s anti-government demonstrations.
At first, the Israeli police used force against the protesters, even though such demonstrations are perfectly legal in Israel.
The materials contained in that book, which I brought out of China and decided to make public, consist of hundreds of documents, including minutes and transcripts of meetings at which the most important leaders of the People’s Republic deliberated on how to handle the Tienanmen demonstrations; key speeches; notes on crucial telephone conversations between leaders; classified reports from security agencies; and dispatches from the police and military.
The first time was when Tung, Hong Kong’s first chief executive, resigned midway through his second term, in favor of his second in command, Donald Tsang, after Tung’s unpopular policies and divisive personality provoked unprecedented mass demonstrations.
As the uprising against the Ceausescu regime broke out in December 1989 in Timisoara, Stanculescu (together with General Chitac) was dispatched to the city and ordered to suppress all demonstrations by any available means.
But, when I visited Hong Kong last month – my first visit since the momentous but abortive democracy demonstrations of 2014 – people seemed more nervous than they had in some time.
A wounded America appreciated the spontaneous demonstrations of sympathy and solidarity that poured across the Atlantic after September 11 th .
Underground unions – which mount demonstrations and strikes to protect workers’ rights, while refusing to cooperate with the regime’s official unions – have also criticized the election.
Demonstrations by unemployed young people in southern Algeria, the center of the oil industry, drew a direct link between high unemployment and the military’s control of the country’s natural resources.
More immediately, they are also challenging the government’s ban on street demonstrations – a vestige of the state of emergency that lasted from 1992 until 2011.
Myanmar, by contrast, broadcasts no information on the dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, and would never allow the reinstatement of a Chief Justice fired by its generals, as Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf did in March, let alone demonstrations in the streets in the Chief Justice’s favor.
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