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And I close with this image of democracy in action: This is a protest that's happening on a retrofit in Silver Spring, Maryland on an Astroturf town green.
The fact that a protest is happening really does mean that the layout of the blocks, the streets and blocks, the putting in of public space, compromised as it may be, is still a really great thing.
And when I see pictures like this, of parents or uncles who think it's cute to have a little child holding a Koran and having a suicide bomber belt around them to protest something, the hope is by linking enough positive things to the Koran, that one day we can move this child from being proud in the way they're proud there, to that.
They were flooded with choice before they could protest that they didn't know how to swim.
It is a form of protest.
And I believe that African activists are redefining democracy by putting protest at its center, what I refer to as "protest democracy."
So we must protest democracy to give it a renewed meaning.
Across the continent, protest is not exceptional, but a normal part of life.
There have been two major waves of African protest, and we are currently living through the third, which began around 2005.
What's driving this upsurge of protest?
What can we learn from African protest democracy?
Third, as I already hinted, protest is the space from which new political imaginations may emerge.
But Linda perseveres, because as she told me a few months ago, protest has given her a sense of meaning and direction.
Democracy is a creative process, and protest has always been the vehicle for expanding our political imaginations beyond what we are told is possible.
I watched this under some protest and only remembered having seen it before towards the very end - it's that forgettable.
I was expecting a cool documentary into the protest and activism surrounding the RNC, but what I got was a largely flawed, bad-acted, fictitious, conspiracy ridden badly woven tale.
The story is completely common and cliché, worthy of a cheap Mexican soap opera as I said.. because the crew advertised it as a protest movie about oil, but 80% of the movie is based on a stupid love triangle.
They used footage of some real protest spliced with some woman talking about a society with no men to make it seem like these people were cheering for the 'gendercide' of men.
I almost wish PETA would come to the rescue of this awful, offensive movie and form a protest.
One minute Karmen is all sexual predator, the next she is dancing in protest to her unfair government, and then suddenly she is a smuggler on the high seas...
American Tourist on package tour in Asia suffering recent bereavement decides to break law by: 1 Ignoring curfew; 2 Joining revolutionary army; 3 Possessing and using illegal firearm...... etc etc What is meant to be a political and educational statement about the so called atrocities of a military dictatorship in Asia ends up as a "How To" travel guide for disillusioned Americans....especially those who wish to protest that the water in the hotel does not work.... Regrettably the authors of this silly yarn have no clue about Asia...nor it seems in writing sensible dialogue... example:...our human-rights heroine searching desperately for medicine in the furthest outreaches of the Asian jungle miles from anywhere comes across a peasant and asks: "Excuse me-does this town have a pharmacy?"...Well....those who know something about the Asian jungle will appreciate how ludicrous that scenario really is.... Mind you I was recently in the Thai jungle and an American asked me.... "excuse me....do you know where is MacDonalds?"
Anyway Hindus are too gentle or scared to protest the way muslims protest so anybody can take any liberties with Hinduism.
In Sweet Water, the ambitious entrepreneur Dick Krantz (Jim Storm) is constructing a resort in the middle of the desert under the protest of the Katonahs.
The discourse against the Vietnam war is no longer a protest song against the war itself, but a strong song demonstrating how the young people of these late 60s managed to bring the political establishment down.
The dashing, jovial Flynn essays Custer from his days at West Point as a reckless, headstrong cadet, through the Civil War years in an extraordinarily generous and partisan interpretation of history, and finally as the nonpareil Indian fighter whose blunder at the Little Big Horn is excused as a sacrifice by Custer of his command as a way of exposing the corruption of government officials and post traders as well as a protest of the unfair treatment of the Plains Indians.
An anti-(Vietnam) war protest consisting of spookily-dressed young people of all races painted like skeletons becomes violent, with cops beating protesters.
To my mind, the very character played by Shabana Azmi is a symbol of the Indian feminine protest against the Indian society.
Swift only hints at this by having the long-suffering wife protest against further voyages.
"subversives" (college students, hippies, black activists, academics) are being rounded up by the government and given lengthy prison terms for what amount to thought crimes and social protest.
Me thinks he (the lady) doth protest too much.
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