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Whether the Yellow Vests declare a moratorium or continue to protest, nothing would serve their cause better than to dissociate themselves – decisively and unambiguously – from all the political profiteers who would capitalize on their misery.
To mark the occasion in 2017, intersex advocate Pidgeon Pagonis led a protest in front of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
For Pidgeon and the others in attendance, the protest was both political and deeply personal.
In anticipation of the protest, the hospital issued a friendly public statement, saying, “We are committed to open communication with the Intersex community and fully respect the diversity of opinions that exist in affected individuals.”
In China, thousands of “sensitive words,” including “self-immolating lamas,” “democracy,” “human rights,” “Tiananmen protest,” and even the title of my book Beijing Coma, cannot even be searched online.
At the time, Khodorkovsky was the wealthiest man in Russia and an open critic of the Russian government, so his arrest triggered a storm of international protest.
As late as 1984, when an MP rose to protest the frequent telephone breakdowns and the generally woeful performance by a public-sector monopoly, the then communications minister replied in a lordly manner.
All of these cases involved the mushrooming of public protest by long-quiescent constituencies with no prior record of coordinated action.
Likewise, Shevardnadze resigned as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia in the 1980s, ostensibly in protest against Soviet rule, only to be appointed Soviet Foreign Minister by Gorbachev.
“I enjoy doing lots of things that do not maximize my earning power,” they might protest.
Then he set himself on fire - a protest and sacrifice that called to mind the protests of Buddhist monks against the Vietnam War a half-century ago, and that of the Czech student Jan Palach against the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring in 1969.
The man hoped that his act of protest would influence PiS supporters – 47% of the population, according to the latest polls – who should not want their favored policies to be enacted in ways that undermine democracy and the rule of law.
In a separate letter to the media, Piotr warned that the PiS would attempt to minimize his act of protest.
Meanwhile, the renowned Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland issued a strong rebuke against liberal media outlets that would attribute Piotr’s protest to mental illness.
Sadly, families are often the last to protest exploitation of their children.
Unfortunately for Putin, when the former is called into question by popular protest, the latter can no longer be taken for granted.
Returning home from a trip to three Central American allies, Premier Yu Shyi-kun's entourage was forced to transit in Okinawa to escape the effects of Typhoon Aere, inciting a protest from China against Japan's government.
While Western firms investing in China must face the prospect of protest and criticism back home from pro-Tibet campaigners, some companies are coming under pressure in China itself.
In protest, more than 100 members of the newspaper’s staff walked out.
After a year of retreating, the two largest opposition parties have begun to occupy the Sejm (Poland’s parliament) to protest an illegal vote on the state budget.
When the government goes after a rich oil tycoon like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, few voices are raised in protest.
The Democratization of DiplomacyHAMBURG: How does citizen protest and government action relate in modern democracies?
While most governments, with the exception of those in the region, were embarrassed but remained silent, protest groups were angry and loud, taking to the streets and, around Muroroa itself, even to the waters.
Would France have made these moves in the absence of international protest?
So the success of non-governmental protest against the French test series has been remarkable, sending a signal not only to Paris but also to the other capitals of nuclear weapons states that the days of non-controversiality over their nuclear status are gone.
Instead of opening its nuclear efforts to some serious European participation, the humiliation of having to cave in to international protest would lead France away from any European solution and back into the refuge of national sovereignty.
It was not least thanks to the effort of the protest movements that France has now made concessions on both these counts.
That is a task for which non-governmental organizations and protest movements are not well equipped: they can raise public conscience, but they cannot formally commit governments.
Otherwise what has been gained through protest could easily be lost again once the demonstrators have dispersed after the last explosion at Muroroa Atoll in early 1996.
The logic is obvious: If we in developed democracies had lacked the right to protest, speak out, organize unions, and vote for representatives of our choosing, we would never have ended child labor or established the eight-hour workday.
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