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This is largely due to the brutal nature of the film's numerous rape sequences, commendably NOT of the 'they may protest at first' variety.
Some really square old dudes and some really happening mod kids who are into protest .
For what else can "The Pleasure Party" (1976) be but an open protest of patriarchy and battery.
Gregori Chukhrai makes a very powerful, and poignant protest against the horror and futility of war.
He knows that when he is condemned to die that it was useless to protest.
Trying to imply that Moore is just a glory-seeking filmmaker who would rather hobnob with celebrities than join in the protest, the point falls flat when you consider how the now infamous acceptance speech made by Moore (and the film itself) did more for the Anti-war cause than a street protest ever could.
If such a movie was made in US it would be give rise to protest about such a portrayal.
After university professor Richard Todd "drops out" in protest of the expulsion of two clean-cut students who print an underground newspaper (The Tomorrow's Times!), he takes a jaunt to San Francisco to check out the action and finds nothing but bubble-blowing, hip-shaking, body-groping kids frolicking in the park (nothing too outrageous: the dancing blonde has flesh-colored undies beneath her dress, and all the couples are boy-girl).
And it's also hard not to see this film as a direct protest against the code that there was talk about during these years.
The great irony is that Putin is now seeking to do in Ukraine exactly what Assad has done so successfully: portray a legitimate political opposition as a gang of thugs and terrorists, while relying on provocations and lies to turn non-violent protest into violent attacks that then justify an armed response.
The murder of five policemen there occurred during a demonstration – one of many held across the country – to protest the recent deaths of two black men shot to death by police after they were detained for minor infractions.
They protest, they petition, and they participate in local riots when all other means are exhausted.
The OECD thinks these cuts are still insufficient, but Germany's usually polite unions now speak of "acts of force" and 350,000 people demonstrated last June in Bonn to protest the import of "capitalism American style" and demand the Chancellor’s resignation.
This is difficult to reconcile with lending to a country like Iran, which publicly executes individuals for sexual “deviance,” imprisons women who protest peacefully, and silences journalists who are critical of the regime.
The Dissenters Marches, which take place on the 31st of every month (article 31 of the Russian constitution guarantees freedom of assembly), could be (and are) easily dismissed as a marginal protest of a few hundred people with no common goals or ideas.
In the meantime, his junior colleague in Russia, who still has his whole future in front of him, does not attend the Dissenters’ March, but simply emigrates, which is also a form of protest.
It is not surprising that the prospect of adding these costs for tens of millions of patients to states’ budgets and to hospital costs causes state governors and hospital administrators to protest when Congress proposes cutting back on the Medicaid program.
If their demands are not properly represented, they might turn away from voting in the future – and toward less constructive forms of protest.
Already, democracy has lost legitimacy here and social protest movements grow increasingly violent.
Nonetheless, as in 2007, the prospect that lost savings will trigger social unrest cannot be dismissed, especially at a time when tools like social media enable citizens easily to share information, air grievances, and mobilize protest.
The Shadow from YasukuniOXFORD – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine has enraged the Chinese and South Korean governments and ignited – no surprise – a firestorm of protest across Asia.
Autocratic governments use it to track down protest and opposition leaders, as we have recently seen in Ukraine.
We’ll protest in the National Assembly and then ignore it.”
The most successful recent example was the invention of the political party "Motherland," which took protest votes away from the liberal parties as well as from the Communists.
As if demonstrating its intention to ignore the protest, on April 21 Chinese Navy vessels sailed northward, between Okinawa and the Miyako islands, and conducted a large-scale exercise.
One poorly aimed rubber bullet might be all that is needed to turn the next street protest into an outright civil war.
That progress began in 2007, when a group of lawyers initiated a mass protest movement in response to an unconstitutional decision by Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s fourth military president, to suspend the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Given Pakistan’s history of military intervention in politics – in 1958, 1969, and 1977 – in response to popular protest, the PTI’s threat had to be viewed very seriously.
Full anonymity explains why efficiency rules – say, leaving the most “expensive” patients untreated when resources are scarce – meet with no protest.
But, for the same reason, efficiency rules often do meet with protest when they are used or proposed for rationing medical services in everyday medicine.
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