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  • History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

    Song   Simple   Thinking  
    "Highlighting the Plight of the Poor" by Hugh Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2011.
  • The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.

    "MI6 and ministers urged to use social networks" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.
  • Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the "demands" of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

    Agency   News   Movement  
    "Occupy Wall Street beta tests a new way of living" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. October 25, 2011.
  • There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

    Art   Political   Pockets  
  • In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orga­nismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general systems theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.

    "The Web of Life". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1996.
  • People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.

    Thinking   People   Upset  
    Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.
  • Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

  • From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.

    "Clinton warns of 'uncharted territory' in wake of Egypt unrest" by Jill Dougherty, edition.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.
  • It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)

    Teacher   War   Book  
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