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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedThe last time a demonstration reached such proportions in Brussels was in 2001, when 80,000 people took to the streets to demand a "more social Europe". At an Euro-demonstration, on 29 September, the European Trade...
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From:Harvard International Review (Vol. 40, Issue 2)Omar Badsha, who was recently awarded the National Order of Ikhamanga (silver) for his contributions to South African culture, is an award-winning photographer and artist who documented the struggle against apartheid...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 40, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedDURING PUERTO RICO'S MAY 2006 FISCAL crisis, the people watched as the Estado Libre Asociado (ELA), or U.S. commonwealth government, fell apart as a model of both economic and political development. After the governor...
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From:Cross Currents (Vol. 63, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis piece was written to speak to the function of intersectionality in negotiating a geographical space--in this case, Harlem. Given the history of issues of race, class, gender and "red lining," I wanted to use my...
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From:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Much of the sociological common knowledge about the current era can be summed up in the claim that globalisation represents the master process and direction of social change. There is a certain kernel of...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 43, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWAS IT NAIVE TO THINK IT COULDN'T get worse? First, the January 12 earthquake in Haiti--the worst disaster in modern history--was met with an infuriatingly futile humanitarian response. (1) In October came a wrenching...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 54, Issue 9)One of the most successful campaigns in the history of libraries actually. happened by chance, over an order of tofu pad thai. In May 2007, Lisa Layera Brunkan stopped by a Thai restaurant for lunch on her way back from...
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From:Trames (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe primary observation of this paper is that the common definition of a social protest movement should be revised, following the large-scale popular protest witnessed in the last few years in different areas of the...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 219)We have written elsewhere that the idealistic, gestural politics of the Occupy Wall Street movement fails to meet a basic criterion of political action: that the actors have a good idea what they want. Lech Walesa...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 91, Issue 11)Spanish architect Jose Rafael Moneo's Our Lady at the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles opened in early September to crowds of protestors condemning the building's $195 million price at a time when the Catholic church is...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFrom collective flash-mobs such as "clap for our carers," to solidarity campaigns launched by a variety of activist organizations, to the Black Lives Matter movement and anti-lockdown protests by right-wing groups, the...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedAccording to organisers, some 50,000 people (the police figure is 20,000) held a demonstration, on 17 September, during the Ecofin Council in Wroclaw, Poland. The march was called by the European Trade Union...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 34, Issue 1)THE FUNERAL FOR CESAR CHAVEZ TOOK PLACE IN AN open field near Delano, a small agricultural town at the southern end of California's Central Valley. I remember an amiable Mexican disorder, a crowd listening and not...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBridgewater State University undergraduate Introduction to Folklore students, overwhelmingly young and white, with little to no experience with folklore, found a voice to honor and highlight liberatory and social...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere were probably close to ten thousand tracts, fliers, and leaflets written and distributed in French cities in May-June 1968, part of the sudden explosion of speech ("la parole") in the public space. Both the...
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From:American Jewish History (Vol. 104, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIf Laura Z. Hobson (1900-1986) has any name recognition today, it is as the author of Gentleman's Agreement (1947), the quintessential anti-antisemitism novel of the post-World War II era, which became an...
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From:Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAfter "A White Handkerchief" by Roberto Bolaño I'm protesting in the park, it's winter, because another one of Us got killed in this land. Until this night my life had been different, I didn't believe in love, etc. I...
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From:Social Forces (Vol. 88, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis research examines the influence of types of protest activities, Congressional hearings and political characteristics on environmental legislation enacted from 1961-1990. We find that rates of environmental protest...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhen I planned my two weeks trip to Tunisia earlier this month, I envisioned peaceful, eventless visits to the old palaces, domed mosques and minarets, the country's medinas (old cities surrounded by walls) and Kasbahs...
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From:Social Justice (Vol. 42, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedTHIS WORK ATTEMPTS TO HIGHLIGHT MODALITIES OF SOCIAL RESISTANCE IN MEXICO at two levels, national and regional, taking into consideration the current phase of the global capitalist crisis. To do that, in the first...