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So they threatened to protest the film everywhere it was shown – threats that forced the Bollywood star and producer to drop the second word, renaming the film simply “Billu.”
As one journalist pointed out, when 400,000 people (far more than Hazare’s followers in Delhi) marched in Kolkata in May 1998 to protest against the government’s nuclear tests, the media barely noticed.
Sadly, Malaysia may soon become prone to the same type of violent protest and economic decline that have gripped Thailand in recent years.
But so are fossil-fuel subsidies, which, with barely a murmur of protest, are currently running at more than $600 billion a year.
That is why so-called “system liberals,” or loyalists who stand for Kremlin-backed change, want to control the protest movement and use it as a lever in an ultimate fight with the “siloviks” (Putin’s military and security apparatus).
Demands for Putin’s resignation would lead only to the marginalization of the protest movement.
They now argue that Putin personally chose repression in responding to the protest movement that filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities in late 2011 and early 2012.
They must consider the mood of the protest movement, as well as opinion polls, which suggest that their popular support lags behind the “republicans” by a nine-to-one margin.
The Globalization of ProtestNEW YORK – The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become global, with the protests engulfing Wall Street and cities across America.
And social protest has found fertile ground everywhere: a sense that the “system” has failed, and the conviction that even in a democracy, the electoral process will not set things right – at least not without strong pressure from the street.
But this misses the point of protest movements.
Bee used offensive language, for which she later apologized, to criticize Ivanka’s lack of protest against her father’s immigration policies.
If ABC had fired Barr for something her comic character had said, she would have grounds to protest.
The Reconstruction of European PoliticsPRINCETON – Many Europeans tremble at the likely outcome of the upcoming European Parliament election: a strong showing for anti-European protest parties, which will almost certainly try to present themselves as the real winners.
In 2007, the Russian Orthodox Church reunited with a breakaway branch, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which had split off in in protest against close ties with the Bolsheviks.
Last month, tens of thousands of people in 90 Russian cities took to the streets to protest against corruption.
One protest leader, Boris Nemtsov, was murdered in 2015.
In March, tens of thousands of mainly young people, led by Navalny, took to the streets to protest the alleged acquisition of untold (and undeserved) riches by Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and current prime minister.
And, with both surges of protest, the Kremlin authorities have been put on notice.
Another protest march is scheduled for the end of May.
This sequence of failures has led some to predict the end of protest politics.
In the months following Putin’s return to the presidency, much will depend upon Russia’s civil society and the protest movement’s leaders.
The virtual absence of popular protest in Russia during the Putin years seems amazing.
This sense of a rigged game alienates citizens and leads them to reclaim their democratic dignity by casting protest votes for figures like Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, or Donald Trump.
Ecuadorian citizens took to the streets to protest President Rafael Correa’s attempt to have himself re-elected indefinitely.
And, indeed, Park has consistently spurned Abe by refusing to hold a bilateral summit with him, in protest over Japan’s alleged historical revisionism, particularly with regard to the Korean “comfort women” who served as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII.
The same spirit of protest that drove, say, Spaniards, Greeks, and New Yorkers to take to the streets – with different demands, to be sure – is fueling support for these new referenda and the insurgent parties that are bringing them about.
The contrast between this dynamic space for open protest and Saudi Arabia could hardly be starker.
The major opposition candidates – Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Patrick Utomi of the African Democratic Party (ADP), Atiku Abubakar of the Action Congress (AC), and Orji Uzor Kalu of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) – reject the results and are calling on Nigerians to protest peacefully.
British politicians have also begun to protest, even though criticizing the BoE was long considered tantamount to blaspheming in church.
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