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They began to shut down the media that the protests were happening on.
The protests, the marches, the uncompromising position that women's rights are human rights, full stop.
Africans use protests to challenge both dictators as well as power cuts.
These protests led to the overthrow of autocratic regimes and led to the introduction of multiparty elections across the continent.
There have been large popular protests in over 40 African countries since 2005, and if you look, you'll recognize that in 2011, the year of the so-called Arab Spring, was actually the spike of this broader wave.
Contrary to popular belief, many of these protests have been successful.
In contrast to elections, protests are not confined by rigid electoral cycles.
Second, while protests may be messy, this is what makes them powerful.
Protests are contentious and contested processes, defined by contingent actions, often devoid of clear messaging, characterized by incomplete organization.
These dynamics are what makes it easy to dismiss protests as riots or to assume they are of limited political utility.
Too often, governments do not view protests as elementary to democracy.
Protests are about coloring outside the lines, a way for ordinary people to rewrite the rules of the game that too many feel are stacked against them.
Consider the situation of my friend Linda Masarira, a single mother of five, who is leading protests against the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe.
The protests during the 2004 Republican convention in New York were not that compelling to make a documentary about it.
While most of the original cast is back, with only Richard Dreyfuss having the good sense to stay away, "More American Graffiti" is a mess of silly situations that involve protests, car races, country singers, and the Vietnam war.
A scientific experiment designed to create a superhuman being has gone wrong.The creators become trapped in a remote desert outpost,pursued relentlessly and mercilessly by their own creation.James Stockton,the scientist whose research was used despite his protests to create the monster,is called the outpost to help undo the horror that now lurks somewhere within the dark halls.James,together with his son and daughter,soon find themselves trapped inside with the others,trying desperately to survive.And with the outpost sealed from within,there is no way out..."The Outpost"/"Mind Ripper" is highly unoriginal.The sets are pretty claustrophobic and there's a bit of gore.However as a horror it fails miserably on almost all levels.There's zero suspense,the script is weak and filled with big holes and the ending is extremely predictable.So-called master Wes Craven produced this one-I wonder if he is happy with this trash.Joe Gayton directs without any style.The acting is horrible,only Lance Henriksen can act at all.OK,I'm a big horror fan and was bitterly disappointed.Avoid it like the plague-it's just the same old boring crap again!
When her older mother protests, Erika goes into a frenzy, attacking the older woman without pity.
(Indeed, her friend Stacy, forced to doubledate w/ Cage's friend Fred, has a good time despite her protests, and makes out w/ Fred in the backseat.)
The drapier protests cheap, inflated copper coins being dumped on Ireland.
So you could give the little sister a line about the Vietnam war protests?
The story for Hare Rama Hare Krishna actually came to Dev Anand's mind when he saw hippies and their fallen values in Kathmandu where he was on a visit after the protests against his previous Prem Pujari in Calcutta.
The premise is that an accomplished playwright, whose star is falling, receives a magnificent manuscript from a former student and so he plans to off his protege and appropriate his play, to the (loud) protests of his wife.
She plays a very spoiled and uncompromising southern belle named Julie in 1850's New Orleans, who intends to marry young beau Henry Fonda but mercilessly tries his patience; she is selfishly late for her own party, and despite all self-respecting folks' protests, rebelliously dons a glowing red gown at a Grand Ball at a time when it's forbidden for any unmarried woman to wear anything other than white.
would undoubtedly receive the scorn and protests of the fundamental religious Right and Left.
The high point of his fortunes is reached when, practically on bended knee, he protests to her that he does not love her for only a few days or a few weeks but for his whole life.
Yes boys and girls, protests and revolutionary sabotage didn't stop in the seventies!
To be an engine of change in Europe, France must undergo a deep structural transformation, which, as student protests at Sciences Po and railway strikes across France show, will be very difficult.
In early April, a disputed election victory by Moldova’s ruling Communists triggered protests.
After a decades-long clandestine (although tolerated) existence within Egyptian society, Islamist forces were able to take advantage of the Tahrir protests, despite playing no integral part in them.
Last year, his government shut down the Internet in the middle of political protests, and vowed to arrest anyone caught generating or sharing “abusive or subversive material on social media.”
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