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The shocking police crackdown on protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown, underscored the extent to which advanced military weapons and equipment, designed for the battlefield, are making their way to small-town police departments across the United States.
And, if some of the film’s larger-than-expected profits are directed toward the slums where the movie was made, the protestors are quite likely to fade away.
Today, Assad is reviled, Ahmadinejad’s government is accused of violently suppressing its own pro-democracy protestors, and both Hezbollah and Iran are condemned for continuing to back Assad as he slaughters his own population.
Up to 10 million protestors in some 60 countries and 600 cities took to the streets on schedule on a single day, February 15, showing that mass politics can now be approached globally.
In ninety days, these organizers turned out more than 5 million protestors worldwide.
Needless to say, it would also provide support for the anti-globalization protestors everywhere.
The Thai government had no choice but to use force after negotiations with the protestors broke down.
Both sides deeply mistrusted the other, even though the government’s five-point “road map” for a peaceful resolution implicitly acknowledged the existence of serious socioeconomic problems and included an early general election this November – a concession to the protestors, who argue that the government lacks legitimacy because it was never elected.
But, as some of the French protestors argued, their focus is on financial survival until “the end of the month,” not on benefits a decade from now.
What the protestors were shouting for was not just freedom but dignity – the dignity that comes from having a job worth doing, enough food to eat, and the hope of a better life for their children.
In just the last few weeks, 124 protestors have died.
For example, Djordje Kuzmanovic, a sinister spokesman for Mélenchon’s party, has compared peaceful Venezuelan protestors to the putschists who delivered Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile in 1973.
In an area full of suspicion and antagonism towards the state, expanding the targets of its political prosecutions from Tibetan protestors to environmentalists and from dissident monks to businessmen risks further undermining China’s own objectives in its most troubled region.
As Deng had crushed the protestors in Tiananmen Square in June of 1989, Hu had proven himself to be “firm and resolute” in quelling anti-Beijing riots in Lhasa, Tibet, two months earlier.
Politically unable to accept or sufficiently address the aspirations of the Tibetan protestors, China’s authorities have focused almost exclusively on the narrow law-and-order issues connected with the violence in March.
The protestors are singularly inarticulate but four big "No's" do emerge:-- No to IMF programs that hurt workers and the poor.
On the contrary, with a young, well-educated population unable to find suitable work, the regime has created its own cadre of potential protestors, who are aware that it is using empty slogans to keep the state of emergency and stay in power.
Assad’s opponents accused the regime of using force against civilians without restraint, while the government pointed to the deaths of soldiers and policeman as evidence of violent jihadists among the protestors.
Legally, morally, politically, and militarily, it has only one justification: protecting Libyans from the kind of murderous harm that Qaddafi inflicted on unarmed protestors four weeks ago; has continued to inflict on those who oppose him in the areas that his forces control; and has promised to inflict on his opponents in Benghazi and other rebel-held territory.
The current crisis has been brewing for some time, but the breaking point came when anti-government protestors occupied Bangkok’s main airport.
The protestors march under the banner of the “People’s Alliance for Democracy,” but the truth is that they have resorted to undemocratic means to topple a democratically elected government.
But we also speak of men’s aggressive behaviour to their partners or children, aggressive confrontations among football fans, or of police against protestors.
This was followed by an embarrassing surrender to the demand of protestors that a powerful new anti-corruption agency be established.
Myanmar’s generals deserve to be condemned for their brutal crackdown on civilian protestors and Buddhist monks.
China’s decision to block the UN Security Council from condemning the Burmese regime’s assault on the Buddhist monks and other peaceful protestors underscores its long-standing political support for the junta.
As in other countries, the very act of seizing territory meant a lot to protestors.
The protestors paraded a severed, bloodied cow’s head in the street, then spat and stomped on it.
However, Aziz opposed the anti-Hindu protest, even calling a group of anti-Muslim protestors in the United Kingdom more civilized in their approach.
Among them, too, were the choices of courageous protestors to go into the streets, to speak out – or, as this particular protestor put it to me, not to have to explain to the next generation, “We sat and waited.”
The world would not soon forget the horrors of Tiananmen, global protestors promised in 1989.