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To understand this, I went back to Turkey about a year after the Gezi protests and I interviewed a range of people, from activists to politicians, from both the ruling party and the opposition party and movements.
And I've come to realize that part of the problem is that today's protests have become a bit like climbing Mt.
But his party won two major elections within a year of the Gezi protests with comfortable margins.
No, they come to these protests, just like before, with their friends, existing networks, and sometimes they do make new friends for life.
I still see the friends that I made in those Zapatista-convened global protests more than a decade ago, and the bonds between strangers are not worthless.
There’d be a pompous paper parliament who remained out of touch, and who ignored the people's protests about all the paper cuts, then the peaceful paper protests would get blown to paper pieces, by the confetti cannons manned by pre-emptive police.
And when this was first built, there were protests in the local village.
In 1990, after years of Native protests, the US government, through the US Congress, finally passed a law that allowed Native Americans to reclaim cultural items, sacred objects and human remains from museums.
The St. George's Citizens Council on Illegal Immigration held regular and active protests against immigration, and so what I gleaned from this Whitopia is what a hot debate this would become.
On January 14, 2011, Ben Ali fled out of Tunisia after mounting protests against his regime.
During major events, such as the Arab Spring or the Ukrainian protests, newscasters and bloggers have posted updates and recordings from the midst of the chaos.
The idea that nonviolent struggle is equivalent to street protests is a real problem.
They stayed there for months as protests spread throughout the country.
It was the first of many protests.
I am not surprised that we are seeing protests from taxi associations all around the world trying to get governments to ban Uber based on claims that it is unsafe.
I happened to be in London the day that these protests took place, and I happened to notice a tweet from Matt Hancock, who is a British minister for business.
In August of 2014, protests broke out in Ferguson, Missouri, after the killing of an African-American teenager by a white police officer, under murky circumstances.
The news of the protests was all over my algorithmically unfiltered Twitter feed, but nowhere on my Facebook.
In 2014, the African-American Policy Forum began to demand that we "say her name" at rallies, at protests, at conferences, at meetings, anywhere and everywhere that state violence against black bodies is being discussed.
Our protests soon became a daily occurrence and an international phenomenon, and as a member of Westboro Baptist Church, I became a fixture on picket lines across the country.
They were the digital version of the screaming hordes I'd been seeing at protests since I was a kid.
When the local residents heard that there would be genetically modified mosquitoes tested in their community some of them began to organize protests.
Thanks for coming to TED. (Applause) In the months following the 2009 presidential election in Iran, protests erupted across the country.
Michael Brown's death and the subsequent treatment of the community led to a string of protests in and around Ferguson and St. Louis.
When I got out to those protests about the fourth or fifth day, it was not out of courage; it was out of guilt.
The siege, the wars, the bombs, the protests or the death toll.
We've been feeling it since the first few months of life, when we didn't get what we wanted in our cries of protests, things like, "What do you mean you won't pick up the rattle, Dad, I want it!"
Today, Neruda’s lines are recited at protests and marches worldwide.
She organized small-scale protests, sit-ins and much more.
And I was really in tune with the protests, the sit-ins, the anti-Vietnam sentiment, and I really felt there was a need to question authority.
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