While police brutality is only recently taking the media by storm‚ it has been a large scale issue in the United States for over one hundred years leading to various riots‚ petitions‚ and presidential panels. In 1938 at the time of a great riot regarding police brutality the National Negro Congress stated “Our lives‚ our homes‚ our liberties each day are made less secure because of unrestrained and unpunished police brutality” in their petition against police brutality (Contemporary Police Brutality
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2004 IPCS Research Papers Communal Riots in India A Chronology (1947-2003) B Rajeshwari -0- Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Communal Riots in India A Chronology (1947-2003) B Rajeshwari Communal riots have become a distinct feature of communalism in India. Whenever conflicting groups from two different religions‚ which are self –conscious communities‚ clash‚ it results in a communal riot. An event is identified as a communal riot if (a) there is violence‚ and (b) two or
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2015‚ cheers erupted across America -- big businesses‚ people and even the White House shamelessly coated itself in rainbow colors to show their support of something years in the making: the legalization of same sex marriage. After years of protests‚ riots‚ campaigns‚ parades‚ mainstream activism‚ celebrity‚ political and even big business support‚ same sex marriage was legalized by the US Supreme Court in all fifty states on June 26th‚ 2015. Obergefell v. Hodges‚ the Supreme Court case that made the
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the key tenets of the Australian identity‚ however what ensued at Cronulla in 2005 is a smear upon our egalitarian ideals. It is in this light that the documentary sets out to explicitly highlight how fragile race relations remain in Australia’s multicultural hotpots. Though The Cronulla Riots: Day that Shocked the Nation (2013)‚ may appear to directly appeal to a narrow target audience of Sydney-siders‚ it also effectively touches the broader Australian community and provokes our perception of Australian
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of the American people toward their government and the dislike of the involvement of the Vietnam War. These songs and others played a huge part in influencing the American people in way never before. 1960s art was influenced by the desire to move into a modern age or future which the space race seemed to show. Major works by influential artists like Alexander Calder and Helen Frankenthaler showed a desire to escape from the status quo. Artists wanted to inspire the viewer to leap into something
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Imagine being at the center of one of the most racially controversial events in Modern American history. More specifically‚ imagine being a victim of police brutality. It seemed like an open-and-shut kind of case. All of the evidence was caught on camera. What plausible vendication would the Defense be able to make against the Prosecution? The Rodney King beating of 1991 was the breaking point for the African Americans and minorities of South Central Los Angeles and all over the country. Because
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late at night June 14th‚ 1994‚ Vancouver‚ Canada. 70‚000 angry‚ rioting canadians takes to the street. Policemen try to calm the angry mob down and disperse them‚ but to no avail. Stores on streets have their windows smashed‚ goods stolen‚ and the riot police are called onto the scene. The authorities only able to disperse the mob the following morning. Two hundred injuries are reported and 1.58 million dollars of damage was done. You might be asking why this great social unrest happened. An unfair
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The Burma Road Riot took place on the 1st and 2nd June 1942 on Bay Street. It was the first indication that the black majority were awaking from their slumber. The core of this riot was the fact that local workers were being paid less than their Americans counterparts from performing the same work and also because the local government had thwarted the attempts of the American labourers. As noted earlier‚ the riot took place over a period of two days. There were some looting; after this was allowed
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Unfortunately‚ it was accompanied by the largest mass migration in human history of around ten million people. An estimated one million civilians died in the accompanying riots‚ particularly in the western region of Punjab which was split into two by the border. During the fateful months of August and September‚ 1947‚ the communal riots flared up on a very large scale in both the Punjabs. It is estimated by some British writers that about two lakhs were killed in the East and West Punjab. Thousands of
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Causes of the Swing Riots Economic factors played an important role in the Swing riots. The industrial revolution was also taking place at this time‚ and machinery often replaced men on the farms‚ as it was a more economically efficient way of farming. A government policy of enclosure was implemented‚ which greatly upset traditional‚ rural societies. Tenant farmers would now only employ labourers to do short term work on the farms‚ for jobs such as hedging or ditching. There was now a surplus
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