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Hong Kong's Threat to ChinaLast month's massive demonstrations in Hong Kong, when over half a million residents poured into the streets in protest against the government of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, continues to echo.
According to this view, populist parties are essentially protest parties, and protest cannot govern, because it is impossible to protest against oneself.
The protest against inviting Jongen was not only intellectually incoherent; it was also tactically stupid, because it confirms the belief of the far right that liberals are the enemies of free speech, and that right-wing populists are victims of liberal intolerance.
Because of the protest, he was able to snatch victory from defeat.
Despite the deep economic frustrations of many of its middle-class citizens (the truly indigent did not protest), Israel has become a global economic and military powerhouse.
When it didn’t, either the official representatives left in protest at our presence, or we left hurriedly, or we all pretended not to notice each other, or – albeit on rare occasions – we started to converse with each other, which frequently were the only moments of dialogue between the regime and the opposition (not counting our courthouse encounters).
As spontaneous protest overtakes organized political movements across the Arab world, the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya’s nascent democracies should heed Le Bon’s warning.
Meanwhile, the political damage is ongoing: not all protest parties are as pro-European as Greece’s ruling Syriza.
Little protest is heard over which states contribute more to the national pot, or from Californians and New Yorkers, for example, who transfer some of their wealth to Alaskans and Mississippians year after year.
He did resign this year, but in protest against the introduction of tariffs on steel imports.
Victimhood confers a right to complain, protest, and demand.
The upsurge of protest across the Arab world raised expectations among Europeans that these countries would, to some extent, emulate Western institutions, values, and norms.
Capitalizing on Africa’s Youth DividendTORONTO – When South African university students took to the streets in 2016 as part of the “Fees Must Fall” protest movement, the “decolonization of the curriculum” was among the movement’s chief concerns.
Russia’s annexation of Crimea, for example, was in large part an attempt to provide Putin’s regime with renewed legitimacy following a winter of discontent, during which demonstrators took to the streets to protest his return to the presidency.
The fact that the referendum was such an amorphous but all-encompassing protest vote explains its second politically corrosive effect.
Writers and scientists, who were also enraged by official censorship of Mickiewicz’s play and national culture, joined the young in protest.
On October 3, instead of going to work, women across the country turned out to protest, following a model established by Iceland’s women in 1975, when 90% did not go to work and effectively paralyzed the country.
According to an opinion poll by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita, 69% of Poles support the so-called black protest that women have mounted.
Another, equally likely, is that popular pressure and protest against fraud, mounting corruption, and authoritarianism lead to radical change.
Even so, protest has spread over the last decade.
Instead of the state being strengthened, it is being reborn as a police-bureaucratic apparatus to suppress social protest, extort bribes, and assure political repression.
I experienced this firsthand when I joined a protest organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers against a Wendy’s fast-food outlet in New York City’s Union Square.
As this extreme violence violates Chinese law, Chen petitioned the central government – the only legally recognized form of protest in China.
Before I chose to protest to the editor who sacked me a week ago, I was guilty of complicity too.
Those who organized this coup hoped that it would lead to greater things for themselves; those who signed a petition of protest were fired not long after.
On June 7, a hundred cars blocked roads in central Minsk to protest a 30% increase in fuel prices – a daring act in Europe's most formidable police state.
To have an impact, citizens have always needed to appeal to – or bypass – the “gatekeepers” who decide which causes and ideas are relevant and worth amplifying, whether through the media, political institutions, or protest.
The violence began in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri during a protest by Muslims against the cartoons, with the Christian Association of Nigeria reporting at least 50 Christians killed.
Soon after the Hong Kong activists' protest landing on the disputed islands, Japanese citizens, including local assembly members, staged their own landing there.
Following the coup, Bhutto and Nawaz fled into exile, and were allowed back into the country only after Musharraf, hoping that their return would help deflect public attention from the lawyers’ protest movement, announced that he would hold elections.
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