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Perhaps the small spread reflects investors’ belief that outright bailouts are eventually coming, however much German politicians protest to the contrary.
Though some businessmen and bankers are annoyed by the disruption, the demonstrators are right to protest.
Huge demonstrations took place in Hong Kong to protest the massacre, and massive commemorations of the event are held every June, keeping alive a memory that is repressed and fading in the rest of China.
People who protest against globalization in places like Genoa are unlikely to die of hunger in Somalia.
More than 800 northerners died as enraged youths took to the streets in protest.
And the West’s response to Putin’s return to the presidency could have a marked effect on whether he presses for liberalizing reforms and survives, or follows his KGB-honed authoritarian instincts and stokes further protest.
But now Putin’s style of government is Russia’s primary source of instability, as the country’s middle class takes to the streets in protest against the corruption and inefficiency of his rule.
Those protest leaders, now in power, have been at each other's throats ever since.
What millions of Arabs were saying as they stood united in peaceful protest was that their way of achieving Arab and Islamic dignity is far less costly in human terms.
The result has exposed a Labour Party divided between a leadership that elevates anti-globalization protest above winning power and a Parliamentary group that knows it has to explain how globalization can be managed in the public interest.
But higher incomes did not translate into improvements in people’s standard of living or the quality of public services, leaving Putin’s approval rating flat, with some of his opponents even taking to the streets to protest his leadership.
France is Not WorkingFrance’s chronic malaise is marked by periodic explosions of protest.
Widespread corruption has bred deep discontent: workers protest the Enron-like bilking of their life savings, townspeople fight against illegal land seizures, and villagers battle injustices – small and large – on a daily basis.
In countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, environmental protest has helped spur political reform.
With hundreds of dams still likely to become targets for protest, pressure will only intensify for a more significant response.
But the march’s more concrete objectives, like its route, became known only after the 450-kilometer (280-mile) protest got underway.
Supporters included members of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), 83% of whom approved of the protest.
Voters would treat the elections as they had in the past: an opportunity to protest – though not against Europe so much as against their own national governments.
The pro-incumbent effect was discernible in Spain and, most dramatically, Italy, where the new reform government of Matteo Renzi defeated expectations that Italians would deliver another big protest vote.
The decision to launch February 15 as a day of mass protest was apparently taken at a meeting of activists at the European Social Forum in Florence in November last year.
The problem for a dictator in building universities is that students are needed, and students often protest!
On May 28, a handful of Turkish environmentalists started a peaceful protest against a redevelopment plan for the park that would replace the greenery with a replica of an Ottoman-era army barracks, a shopping mall, and apartments.
The redevelopment plan for the park triggered a huge protest against what a large segment of the Turkish public, particularly young people, considers paternalistic and authoritarian political leadership.
Indeed, though environmentalists and secular youth spearheaded the protest movement, it became remarkably diverse and inclusive almost overnight.
Through various means, governments are making it harder for citizens to assemble and protest.
Yet it is precisely these dangers that make public protest more powerful than, say, anonymous online activism.
In most economies, these macro-prudential policies are modest, owing to policymakers’ political constraints: households, real-estate developers, and elected officials protest loudly when the central bank or the regulatory authority in charge of financial stability tries to take away the punch bowl of liquidity.
Anti-nuclear movements took root, and, in a phrase made famous by the historian E.P. Thompson, began to protest to survive.
The US has been behind the curve from the moment the turmoil sparked, trying to play catch up as two authoritarian governments were toppled by popular protest and more regimes try to cling to power as long as they can.
It also highlights another important aspect of protest politics in the Muslim world.
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