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Their vote was a protest against globalization, a rejection of the contemporary world, with its distant and incomprehensible governing mechanisms.
It is entirely plausible that Thaksin did help finance the protest.
Both outlets ran live broadcasts throughout the protest, showing all the drama that the cameras could capture.
Legal Power to the PeopleNEW DELHI – Inspired by Anna Hazare’s hunger strike, thousands of people gathered at Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi to protest governmental corruption.
But in any event, it was too late to protest: the ten Eastern states had already been granted membership of the Union.
Indeed, as Vuk Draskovic, the leader of the largest opposition group, tried to hijack last week's massive protest of 100,000 in Belgrade (a rally he had previously shunned), security men from Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement and Zoran Djindjic's Democratic Party openly scuffled.
Occupy the GovernmentNEW YORK – Too much of the talk nowadays about how social media has affected politics focuses on awareness: People adopt social media, discover they are not alone, start to protest, and eventually their “Facebook revolution” overwhelms those in power.
Social networking has given them new tools of protest to topple governments, but what is also needed are new ways to make government operate effectively and accountably.
But urban youth and educated professionals, too, are larger in number and more politically active than ever before – a change reflected in the sudden rise and surprising success of “occupy” protest movements demanding an end to patronage politics.
In 1923, more than 100 Chinese judges, prosecutors, and clerks resigned en masse to protest trumped-up corruption charges against the then-finance minister.
The continuing relevance of Erhard's ideas can be seen in the growing number of protest movements – strengthened by social networks – challenging the market economy and neoliberalism.
First, the 2012 law was a direct response to the large public demonstrations that began the previous year in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other Russian cities to protest Vladimir Putin’s decision to stand for a third term as president, his election, and his inauguration.
In most parts of Europe, the elections will be an opportunity for protest votes on national issues.
But local residents may protest such structures, given that they could make the area less attractive.
The Meaning of BrexitNEW YORK – The Brexit vote was a triple protest: against surging immigration, City of London bankers, and European Union institutions, in that order.
Be it the US Congress’s paralyzing polarization or Italy’s protest vote against the established political order, politicians are being given time to overcome their dysfunction, thereby minimizing any immediate disruptive impact.
It is difficult to predict what triggers popular protest, but economic factors are key.
And unemployed young people in Greece, Portugal, and Spain routinely protest against “German dictates.”
But the region’s protest politics also reflects growing rejection of dictatorship and arbitrary rule.
How seriously, one wonders, did the Chinese take Trichet when he came to China to protest the euro’s “brutal” appreciation against the renminbi?
The second big question concerns Grillo’s M5S, which is a typical grassroots effort – strong on protest, but weak (and weird) on proposals.
Passionate grassroots protest and surging populist parties across the continent are the result.
Another avenue through which Chinese residents advance their interests is public protest.
Across the country, residents often protest wrongful eviction from their homes, frequently at the hands of corrupt local officials.
One of us recently observed a street protest in Wuhan, the largest city in central China.
Others welcome the opportunity in a democracy to pursue legitimate interests, and even to protest.
There is no provision for the Parliament to register even a moderate protest or a targeted sanction against detailed elements of the record of the European executive.
After Picuti made the charges public in June 2010, Alan Leshner, Executive Publisher of Science, sent an open letter of protest to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on behalf of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He and many other white supremacists were in Charlottesville to protest a decision by the city to remove a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
In a recent study of protest movements spanning more than a century, social scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan show that tough but nonviolent confrontation has been twice as likely as violent alternatives to bring about its stated goals.
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