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The catalyst for these broad-based protests is the proposed construction of hundreds of dams throughout western China.
Dam protests can often be volatile.
These protests are striking not only for the sensitive nature of the issues they address, but for the broad-based support they have elicited.
While spearheaded by Beijing-based NGO’s, the dam protests involve Chinese from all parts of the country, employ all means of communication, and engage the support of central government officials.
Similar environmental protests have evolved into demands for broader political change in other countries.
Many of China’s leading environmentalists are former students and intellectual leaders from the Tiananmen protests of 1989 who believe that environmental activism offers an avenue for advancing broader political reform.
The government could launch a broad crackdown on such protests, although this would risk damaging China’s prestige internationally and provoking larger, more violent protests.
While this is currently an unlikely outcome, as the anti-dam protests gather strength, China’s leaders may realize that if they do not move quickly, they risk being swept away.
Rousseff’s popularity has plummeted in the wake of public protests over spending on the World Cup, together with a sharp economic slowdown.
So tensions spill over into the streets and take the form of riots and protests.
Enacted in 2012, amid nationwide protests against rigged elections, it has been used most often to target journalists and bloggers.
And it imposes harsher punishments for “extremism” (read: criticism) and “mass disturbances” (read: protests).
They then tried to force the Ukrainian people to swallow this sham – threatening to ban public gatherings, close our borders to new visa seekers, and silence any word of our protests on television.
It will try to erode our support by infiltrating our protests with loyalists who will carry the virus of defeatism, and it will seek to outflank us by appealing to ordinary, hard-working Ukrainians, worried about feeding and clothing their children, that a tottering economy needs stability to be saved.
Despite their protests, Reinhart and Rogoff were accused of providing scholarly cover for a set of policies for which there was, in fact, limited supporting evidence.
Of course, political protests have been global for decades, as past marches against the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, and globalization itself demonstrated.
But the anti-Iraq War protests reveal a new dynamic.
On other occasions, protests such as May Day marches were transformed into widespread social mobilization, as happened in France on May 1, 1968.
What is distinctive about the recent mass protests against US plans for a war against Iraq is that the February 15 event was planned ahead of time, at short notice, for a specific date, and with an explicit goal of worldwide scale.
There was a fourth specific feature fuelling the global protests, too: the exceptionally high level of arrogance and ineptitude displayed by the Bush Administration.
It is unlikely that worldwide protests will stop the Bush Administration's war plans, but they will help shape the political, security, and economic ramifications of such a war.
The protectionist responses are sadly familiar: protests against foreign workers, demands for trade protection, and a financial nationalism that seeks to limit the flow of money across national frontiers.
In all the Indian protests about the terrible blow dealt by the Americans to Indian self-esteem, only a few mentioned the habitual exploitation of the poorer classes.
Some of the protests became violent.
A striking feature of the protests has been the distance that the demonstrators have put between themselves and existing political parties, including the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the largest force in the center-left secular opposition.
In this sense, the Taksim “sit-in” resembles protests elsewhere, particularly in the advanced democracies, from the “Occupy Wall Street” movement to the protests in Spain and Italy.
To be sure, there are country-specific features to such protests – including, in Turkey’s case, the reaction against lifestyle paternalism.
But social democrats must understand why the protests developed quite independently of existing, organized, center-left politics.
The so-called tortilla crisis, which led to protests in Mexico City in January, foreshadows what we can expect.
In drought-seared California, some bottlers have faced protests and probes; one company was even banned from tapping spring water.
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