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Workers who protest and strike are "rioting."
In autocracies like China and Russia, leaders resist the radical reforms that would reduce the power of entrenched lobbies and interests, thereby fueling social unrest as resentment against corruption and rent-seeking boils over into protest.
The students were part of a growing chorus of protest against modern economics as it is taught in the world’s leading academic institutions.
Yet protest votes, together with protest non-votes, could produce a decidedly brown outcome.
Already, in Gilani’s hometown of Multan, rioters attacked government offices and banks to protest electricity disruptions.
Savchenko has been on a hunger strike in Russia for more than two months to protest her patently illegal incarceration on charges even more ludicrous than those for which I was imprisoned.
Despite the recent rise in negative public sentiment, protest activity remains fragmented and invariably local in scope and demands.
And, without oppositional protest, systemic change seems unlikely.
A bill proposed in February would make it a crime to protest a sporting event.
From big issues - say, the closure of the Gdansk shipyards - to small ones - say, when the peasants in my village object to a new road because the tumult may kill their pigs - the country is awash in impromptu protest politics.
Every particular protest has its understandable, even justifiable, cause, and it is obvious that people should defend their interests.
But in the so called "new democracies" of the postcommunist world, the domination of the "liberal" over the "democratic," the domination of the individual over the community, the domination of protest over construction may soon reveal that these countries are not pre-democratic, as it is often said, but perhaps post-democratic.
Freedom and protest against any oppression must be defended, but both defenders and aggressors must agree about some common political will.
The fiery emotions inspired by this dispute – some Koreans even mutilated themselves in protest against Japan – suggest that the wounds of the Japanese war in Asia are still fresh.
But the French people manifestly still believe in the power of the state to make things happen; so when things go wrong, they demonstrate in the streets; and, come election time, they vote for a protest party.
These negotiations will be much harder in view of the spectacular repudiation of a number of key governments at the ballot box, together with the potent rise of protest and Euroskeptic parties in several member states.
Indeed, early in the rebellion, Alawite and Sunni sheiks marched together in the streets of Latakia – the capital of the former Alawite state – to show their support for peaceful protest.
As a result, France can expect popular protest, as well as a further increase in support for more extreme parties – above all, Le Pen’s National Front.
Many non-Chinese, including me, have signed a letter of protest against the jailing of Liu Xiaobo.
For more than a year, young Chileans have been taking to the streets to protest.
Chile’s student-led protest movement has generated much re-thinking within the country.
Moreover, as inequality fuels popular protest around the world, social and political instability could pose an additional risk to economic performance.
In Egypt, the old regime under Hosni Mubarak, having failed to democratize, collapsed in the face of massive protest.
Distrust of politicians is mounting, manifested in weak electoral turnout (except for the last presidential election), protest votes for extremist parties, and the state’s inability to reform itself.
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.
Last but not least, in Britain, the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has become a catchall protest party, and is now the political home for Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) activists, even though there are only 20,000 Palestinians in Britain.
Earlier this year, tens of thousands of Romanians took to the streets to protest a government decree that would have decriminalized certain forms of corruption committed by public officials.
To that end, organizations can be created to channel protest and dissent into the democratic process, so that certain voices are not driven to the political fringe.
Across the country, police, acting under orders from local officials, are breaking up protest encampments set up by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement – sometimes with shocking and utterly gratuitous violence.
Moreover, protest movements do not succeed in hours or days; they typically involve sitting down or “occupying” areas for the long hauls.
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