supporters run in hundreds of thousands‚ there is no dearth of critics of the movement as well. One of the most bizarre arguments against it is that the movement could damage the democratic fabric of the country. How a democratically sanctioned form of protest could damage the democratic fabric is beyond me. Not to mention the personal character attacks that even the Manmohan Singh government could not resist launching. For many cautious supporters-cum-critics the movement is a massive display of hypocrisy
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New Research: Internet Censorship To Stop Protests... Actually Increases Protests from the who-didn’t-see-that-coming? dept We’ve been arguing for a while that attempts by various governments to shut down forms of communication during protests and riots only serves to make protesters and rioters angrier. Some new (quite timely) research‚ pointed out by Mathew Ingram‚ seems to agree that internet censorship tends to make such problems worse. The research is a quick read‚ and certainly goes further
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The group responsible for the conducting of these protests is being called “Concerned Student 1950”‚ which stands for the year the first black student was accepted into the university. Jonathan Butler‚ a graduate student of the University of Missouri‚ went on a hunger strike that he said would only end if
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the sake of making their point known they remained seated until the store closed. As a result of their protest‚ many other protesters followed in their footsteps in the following days. Each day‚ the Woolworth’s store was occupied by more and more African-American protesters. Sales at the store dropped drastically‚ and in the end the segregation policy at the store was abandoned. Protests in neighboring towns arose as the news of the Greensboro Four spread. The Greensboro Four helped bring integration
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organizing social or political activism. Throughout the essay‚ Gladwell describes multiple examples of protests and how much more they were effective without social media. The protests leaned towards being stronger‚ more organized‚ and the people participating in them were more invested and had stronger bond to them. He begins his article with a story about the Greensboro sit-ins‚ and how the protests started with a group of four college students and accumulated to around seventy thousand students all
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to vote. First‚ the women were determined to get their right to vote. For example‚ the women went on a hunger strike and did not eat for weeks. Next‚ even after the first groups of women were thrown in jail they were determined to go back and protest. For example‚ when police had come to arrest the women for obstructing traffic Alice Paul and a group of
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of the project. Later a investigation was proposed for the whole approval process of the paseocribe. The issue turned in to a conflict and many violent protests were planned. There were series of protest organized by various organizations and people. Later the government intervened and stopped the project from going ahead. This also lead to protest from the industries sector as the industrialist in the real state sector said that issues like this would deter the foreign investors to invest in the
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several events commemorating the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In 2011‚ it became the site of the Occupy Wall Street protest camp. Many activists occupied the space and used it as a staging ground for their demonstration throughout the Manhattan Financial District. The Canadian activist group Adbusters initiated the protest‚ which subsequently led to Occupy protests and movements around the world. The main issues are social and economic inequality‚ greed‚ corruption and the perceived undue
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Social media and its tools have been recognized as a major and integral part of modern societies and globalization- the new world order. Huge developments in social networking and social media emerged in the early 2000’s. As social networking grew‚ niche sites started picking up interest groups. Despite the growth‚ expansion and diverse merits of the social media and its tools‚ it has been charged with various controversy and criticism. Social media networking in the new world order has an astonishing
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primary platform used within Occupy Wall Street to encourage others to come out and join the protests. Additionally‚ social media was the primary way that these organizers of this movement got their message out to the public and to the media. For instance‚ in 2011‚ Kalle Lasn‚ a person that was considered a founder of the Occupy Wall Street movement reached out to Adbusters to increase public attention and protest participation. The selected magazine was an interesting choice because it was an online
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