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"Indigenous activism put small-town northern Ontario on the map in the 1960s and early 1970s. Kenora, Ontario, was home to a four-hundred-person march, popularly called "Canada's First Civil Rights March," and a two-month-long armed occupation of a small lakefront park within a nine year span. Canada's Other Red Scare shows how important it is to link the local and the global to broaden narratives of resistance in the 1960s; it is a history not of isolated events closed off from the present but of decolonization as a continuing process. Scott Rutherford explores with rigour and sensitivity the Indigenous political protest and social struggle that took place in Northwestern Ontario and Treaty 3 territory from 1965 to 1974. Drawing on archival documents, media coverage, published interviews, memoirs and social movement literature, as well as his own lived experience as a settler growing up in Kenora, he reconstructs a period of turbulent protest and the responses it provoked, from support to disbelief to outright hostility. Indigenous organizers advocated for a wide range of issues, from better employment opportunities to the recognition of nationhood by using such tactics as marches, cultural production, community organizing, journalism, and armed occupation. They drew inspiration from global currents - from black American freedom movements to Third World decolonization - to challenge the inequalities and racial logics that shaped settler-colonialism and daily life in Kenora. Accessible and wide-reaching, Canada's Other Red Scare makes the case that Indigenous political protest during this period should be thought of as both local and transnational, an urgent exercise in confronting the experience of settler-colonialism in places and moments of protest, when its logic and acts of dispossession are held up like a mirror."--
Protest movements --- Civil rights demonstrations --- History --- Freedom marches (Civil rights) --- Sit-ins (Civil rights) --- Civil rights movements --- Demonstrations --- Social movements --- Kenora (Ont.) --- Race relations --- Ethnic relations
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On February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers. The four students remained in their seats until the store closed. In the following days, they returned, joined by growing numbers of fellow students. These "sit-in" demonstrations soon spread to other southern cities, drawing in thousands of students and coalescing into a protest movement that would transform the struggle for racial equality. The Sit-Ins tells the story of the student lunch counter protests and the national debate they sparked over the meaning of the constitutional right of all Americans to equal protection of the law. Christopher W. Schmidt describes how behind the now-iconic scenes of African American college students sitting in quiet defiance at "whites only" lunch counters lies a series of underappreciated legal dilemmas-about the meaning of the Constitution, the capacity of legal institutions to remedy different forms of injustice, and the relationship between legal reform and social change. The students' actions initiated a national conversation over whether the Constitution's equal protection clause extended to the activities of private businesses that served the general public. The courts, the traditional focal point for accounts of constitutional disputes, played an important but ultimately secondary role in this story. The great victory of the sit-in movement came not in the Supreme Court, but in Congress, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark legislation that recognized the right African American students had claimed for themselves four years earlier. The Sit-Ins invites a broader understanding of how Americans contest and construct the meaning of their Constitution.
African Americans --- Civil rights demonstrations --- Civil rights --- History --- Southern States --- Race relations. --- Civil Rights Act. --- Congress. --- Constitution. --- Supreme Court. --- civil rights movement. --- demonstrations. --- equal protection. --- protests. --- sit-ins. --- students.
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Civil rights demonstrations --- Civil rights movements --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- Civil liberation movements --- Liberation movements (Civil rights) --- Protest movements (Civil rights) --- Human rights movements --- Freedom marches (Civil rights) --- Sit-ins (Civil rights) --- Demonstrations --- History --- Connor, Eugene, --- Connor, Bull, --- Connor, Theophilus Eugene, --- Connor, T. Eugene --- Connor, Eugene T. --- Birmingham (Ala.) --- City of Birmingham (Ala.) --- Officials and employees --- Race relations.
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Civil rights movements --- African Americans --- Segregation in transportation --- Civil rights workers --- Civil rights demonstrations --- Freedom Rides, 1961 --- Civil rights activists --- Race relations reformers --- Social reformers --- Freedom marches (Civil rights) --- Sit-ins (Civil rights) --- Demonstrations --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Discrimination in transportation --- Transportation --- History --- Civil rights --- Segregation --- Southern States --- Race relations --- Black people
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This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for society-the lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the role of material things in the sit-ins of 2013, the military evocation of masculinities (and the destruction of alternative ones), and how people experience pain, rage, disgust, euphoria, and passion in the body. While focused primarily on changes unfolding in Egypt, this study also investigates how materiality and affect provide new possibilities for examining societies in transition. A book of rare honesty and vulnerability, The Streets Are Talking to Me is a brilliant, unconventional, and self-conscious ethnography of the space where affect, material life, violence, political crisis, and masculinities meet one another.
Islam and politics --- Protest movements --- Social movements --- Egypt --- History --- Politics and government --- brilliant. --- changes unfolding in egypt. --- differences after egyptian revolution. --- egyptian revolution. --- exploration of egyptian revolution. --- lack of sound in cairo. --- military evocation of masculinities. --- momentous events in arab world. --- self conscious. --- sit ins of twenty thirteen. --- study of revolutions in middle east. --- twenty eleven. --- unconventional.
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In 2002 trekt een handjevol jonge vrouwen uit de Parijse voorsteden, onder wie Fadela Amara, aan de alarmbel met een heus manifest: 'Ni Putes Ni Soumises'. Het geweld tegen jonge, vaak allochtone vrouwen neemt schrikbarende vormen aan. Groepsverkrachtingen zijn geen uitzondering. De auteur analyseert de oorzaken van problemen, legt verbanden en verwoordt politieke eisen. In hun strijd tegen het vernieuwde seksisme herontdekken de jonge vrouwen het feminisme.
Sex discrimination against women --- Muslim women --- Suburban life --- Civil rights demonstrations --- Social conditions --- History --- Social problems --- Sociology of minorities --- Social policy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Ni putes ni soumises [Montreuil] --- France --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Islamic women --- Women, Muslim --- Freedom marches (Civil rights) --- Sit-ins (Civil rights) --- Sex discrimination against women - France --- Muslim women - France - Social conditions --- Suburban life - France --- Civil rights demonstrations - France - Paris - History - 21st century --- MANIFESTATION --- BANLIEUES --- FEMMES --- VIOLENCE CONTRE LES FEMMES --- DISCRIMINATION A CARACTERE SEXUEL --- FRANCE --- VIE EN BANLIEUE --- SOCIOLOGIE --- MILIEU URBAIN --- Feminism --- Equal opportunities --- Violence --- Immigrant girls --- Book --- Activism --- Discrimination
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The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960's America. Led by Mario Savio and other young veterans of the civil rights movement, student activists organized what was to that point the most tumultuous student rebellion in American history. Mass sit-ins, a nonviolent blockade around a police car, occupations of the campus administration building, and a student strike united thousands of students to champion the right of students to free speech and unrestricted political advocacy on campus. This compendium of influential speeches and previously unknown writings offers insight into and perspective on the disruptive yet nonviolent civil disobedience tactics used by Savio. The Essential Mario Savio is the perfect introduction to an American icon and to one of the most important social movements of the post-war period in the United States.
Political activists --- Civil rights workers --- Student movements --- Activism, Student --- Campus disorders --- Student activism --- Student protest --- Student unrest --- Youth movements --- Student protesters --- History. --- Savio, Mario. --- Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.) --- FSM --- 1960s america. --- 20th century american history. --- american activism. --- american activist. --- american history. --- berkeley free speech movement. --- campus administration. --- campus protest. --- civil rights movement. --- counterculture movement. --- free speech. --- influential speeches. --- mario savio. --- mass sit ins. --- nonviolent civil disobedience. --- nonviolent protest. --- political advocacy. --- political protest. --- protest. --- student activists. --- student occupations. --- student rebellion. --- student strike. --- united states of america. --- university of california berkeley.
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On May 4, 1970, National Guard troops opened fire on unarmed antiwar protesters at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four students and wounding nine others, including the author of this book. The shootings shocked the American public and triggered a nationwide wave of campus strikes and protests. To many at the time, Kent State seemed an unlikely site for the bloodiest confrontation in a decade of campus unrest--a sprawling public university in the American heartland, far from the coastal epicenters of political and social change.
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970. --- Kent State Massacre, Kent, Ohio, 1970 --- May 4 Shootings at Kent State University, 1970 --- Demonstrations --- Kent State University --- Kent State College --- Ohio. --- History. --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Civil rights movements --- Civil rights demonstrations --- Anti-war demonstrations --- Working class --- Student movements --- Students --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Antiwar demonstrations --- Peace movements --- Freedom marches (Civil rights) --- Sit-ins (Civil rights) --- Civil liberation movements --- Liberation movements (Civil rights) --- Protest movements (Civil rights) --- Human rights movements --- Protest movements. --- Attitudes. --- Employment
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How political protests and activism have a direct influence on voter and candidate behavior The “silent majority”—a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and later used by Donald Trump as a campaign slogan—refers to the supposed wedge that exists between protestors in the street and the voters at home. The Loud Minority upends this view by demonstrating that voters are in fact directly informed and influenced by protest activism. Consequently, as protests grow in America, every facet of the electoral process is touched by this loud minority, benefitting the political party perceived to be the most supportive of the protestors’ messaging.Relying on historical evidence, statistical data, and detailed interviews that consider protest activity since the 1960s, Daniel Gillion shows that electoral districts with protest activity are more likely to see increased voter turnout at the polls. Surprisingly, protest activities are also moneymaking endeavors for electoral politics, as voters donate more to political candidates who share the ideological leanings of activists. Finally, protests are a signal of political problems, encouraging experienced political challengers to run for office and hurting incumbents’ chances of winning reelection. The silent majority may not speak with protest actions themselves, but clearly gesture for social change with their vote.An exploration of how protests affect voter behavior and warn of future electoral changes, The Loud Minority looks at the many ways that activism can shape democracy.
Protest movements --- Democracy --- Political participation --- United States --- Politics and government. --- 2020 elections. --- American National Election Study. --- American politics. --- Angela Davis. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Civil Rights Act. --- Discrimination, Jobs, Politics. --- Faithful and Fearless. --- Federal Election Committee. --- Freedom is a Constant Struggle. --- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. --- Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor. --- Kenneth Andrews. --- LGBT community. --- Martin Luther King. --- Mary Fainsod Katzenstein. --- Mobilizing Public Opinion. --- Paul Burstein. --- Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency. --- Taeku Lee. --- Tea Party activists. --- U.S. elections. --- Vietnam War. --- Voting Rights Act. --- a change is gonna come. --- campaign contributions. --- civil rights movement. --- congressional elections. --- countermobilization. --- democratic national convention. --- electoral opportunity. --- electorate influence. --- free-riding. --- ideological protest. --- liberal and conservative protests. --- partisanship. --- polarization. --- political backlash. --- political behavior. --- political campaigns. --- political communication. --- political primaries. --- protest narrative. --- race and ethnic politics. --- republican national convention. --- sit-ins. --- social movements. --- women’s rights.
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