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From that unambiguouspremise came what is known as our protest literature.
The resulting vacuum has been filled by various currents of political Islam, terrorism, protest movements, uprisings, secession attempts by national or religious minorities, and aspiring regional hegemons (Iran and Saudi Arabia).
The Netherlands—a traditionally pro-European country—also may vote No on the Constitution in its own referendum (which takes place after the French one) --not only as a protest against the conservative and moralistic policies of the Balkenende government, but as a rejection of a corporatist Europe dominated by French and German interests.
In the south, they protest against the austerity imposed by the north.
After the Cultural Revolution, and despite widespread protest, "differential quota elections" were introduced, albeit in a limited fashion.
The film actually sparked a noisy protest along La Croisette, with French veterans defensively and aggressively singing “La Marseillaise,” even as couples dressed in black tie and gowns swept in a parallel path to the evening's festivities.
If it keeps its interest rate too low for too long, countries like Germany and the Netherlands will protest.
In Moldova, citizens continue to protest a controversial electoral law that favors the country’s two largest political parties, at the expense of smaller movements.
As different as these examples of public protest are, they have one thing in common: they reflect efforts by ordinary citizens to hold not just their governments, but also companies and other institutions, to account.
What started as a decent, middle-class protest against a new tax on diesel fuel has been hijacked by professional thugs and extremists railing against migrants, the European Union, and French President Emmanuel Macron.
On July 29, many organizations staged a large protest in Cairo’s Tahrir to highlight the unity of Egypt’s revolutionaries (whose demands included a public trial of Mubarak).
Instead, the protest exposed the dramatic polarization between Islamists and secularists since Mubarak’s ouster.
But these diehard Euroskeptics would never have won a majority without some 20% of voters who cared little about Europe, but treated the referendum as a protest vote.
It will need to show protest voters that whatever their problems, Brexit is not the answer.
At a protest in Madhya Pradesh this summer, police opened fire on farmers demanding debt relief and better crop prices, killing five.
Zhang, who appeared in this year's Oscar-nominated film Hero , refused to attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood in protest.
At the same time, the wave of protest showed the growing political clout of the country’s expanding middle class.
In many European countries, by contrast, marginalized young people protest to preserve a crumbling social order threatened by fiscal austerity.
China permitted demonstrations, sometimes violent, against Japanese consulates in protest of changes in Japanese textbooks that softened descriptions of Japan’s invasion in the 1930’s.
In a society devoid of such self-awareness, not a single party will ever have a stable electorate united by something more substantial than agreement on the forms of protest.
The political views of the parties of organized protest against the existing regime or their adaptation to it will always be extremely volatile and be determined by short-term trends, which will always be their determinant.
Williams, wrote a protest entitled “Made in Germany,” he began by recording his discomfort that the pencil he was using was a German product as well.
The 1848 uprisings around Europe were substantially a protest against voting laws that limited voting to only a minority of men: property holders or aristocrats.
But this does not justify the hasty comparison – and even less the identification – of every protest today with “’68.”
Indeed, the dispersal of a peaceful protest march organized by Tibetan monks, which led to a wave of unrest that was brutally suppressed by the Chinese military and police, has caused indignation all over the democratic world.
If Chinese officials don’t move faster to channel popular grievances and head off potential sources of disaffection, they could eventually be confronted with an uprising of their own – an uprising far broader and more determined than the student protest that they crushed in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
And there is potentially no limit to how ingenious people can become with regard to writing so-called smart contracts, which will trigger payments or other digital transactions (like sending protest messages) when particular events occur.
Four years ago, when hundreds of thousands of young Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran to protest outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection, the Iranian government shot at them with live rounds.
New York City officials ultimately did shut down the protest, but largely for health and sanitary reasons and related complaints by neighborhood residents.
At a press conference on the day the protests began, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: “People have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we’ll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it.”
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