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Thus, little protest is heard if a judge is asked to conduct an independent inquiry even into such matters as the motives for the Iraq war.
Long-dormant political activism will erupt into mass protest, with resurgent liberal idealism breaking the wave of right-wing populism.
But protest alone won’t be of much help.
But without real political organization, mere protest will go the way of Occupy Wall Street in 2011; it will peter out into ineffectual gestures.
Under protest, the poster was withdrawn.
This kind of bigotry, designed to mobilize the most ignorant sections of Russian society behind the president by pandering to their prejudices, should elicit more protest than it has.
And the more FIFA and the IOC protest their political innocence, the better it is for regimes that use international sporting events for their own ends.
It was as if Catholics were to protest outside the Vatican against picking a new Pope.
Even as the Internet and communications technology have made speaking up publicly technically easier than ever, ubiquitous state and commercial surveillance has ensured that expression, association, and protest remain constrained.
When citizens took to the streets to protest, they were violently suppressed.
Thousands of people who had planned to protest at the United Nations climate talks last month had to settle for leaving their shoes.
Significantly, the protests against Putin’s regime in 2012 have since been interpreted not as a protest against Putin himself, but rather against the social order to which Eurasianism aspires.
But it was the monks and nuns who took the first step; they dared to protest when others had mostly given up.
The only reason for Zhao’s continued ill treatment was his opposition to the violent repression of the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989.
Indeed, given populism’s importance as a political phenomenon, that view, along with two others – that populism is somehow a call for direct democracy, and that populists can only protest, but never govern – needs to be challenged.
It is similarly misguided to think that populist politicians, once in power, will not be able to govern effectively, because they have emerged from protest parties whose agendas are defined entirely by what they oppose.
When the PAD seized control of Government House and Bangkok’s two airports, its protest leaders hectored Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and likened him to a hooligan.
Press agencies estimate that, with more than one million participants, this was the largest public protest since October 1999, which was also – sadly – a demonstration against violence and kidnappings.
The July 5 protest reminded us of the 3,000 kidnappings since the start of this four-decade conflict, but Colombians could form human chains and release white balloons for many other reasons.
For example, Carrie Gracie recently resigned as the BBC’s China editor in protest against unequal pay between male and female editors, shaming six top male employees to agree to substantial wage cuts.
Students protest, sometimes alongside trade unions, against the consumer society.
Weak neighbors are states that the Kremlin can control, so why not expand Russian power by letting Ukraine slide into protest and anarchy if by doing so it brings that country back under Putin’s thumb?
That is why I am not at all sure that the street uprisings in Egypt, following those in Tunisia, and now spreading to other Muslim-majority countries, can be interpreted simply as traditional forms of protest against bad rulers.
So women accept unhealthy jobs, long hours, or work-shifts that are hard to adjust to family needs, along with new forms of exploitation and sexual harassment Even when these and other practices are illegal, women do not protest, fearing for their jobs.
Hundreds of Israeli peace supporters, along with some international activists, have joined evicted Palestinians to protest the actions of these radical settlers, which have been supported by municipal and government officials.
Non-violent protest has also been on the rise, whereas violent acts and suicide bombings have been drastically decreased.
These programs yielded modest growth at best; what they did succeed in boosting was poverty, inequality, and social protest.
After years of corruption scandals, political dramas, and protest marches, this was manna from heaven – a story combining cricket, the national obsession, with vice, the national weakness.
For example, last year, Jobbik’s candidate, Oszkar Juhasz, was elected Mayor of Gyongyospata, where a radical paramilitary organization had staged patrols for two weeks in protest against “Gypsy crime.”
Scholars of the region, like myself, are also recognizing that our understanding of Arab politics did not anticipate this wave of successful protest.
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