Demonstration

The demonstration was against Operation Peace of Galilee and demanded an establishment of a commission of inquiry into the Sabra and Shatila massacres. Over 400,000 activists showed up in hopes of removing Israeli troops from Lebanon. The demonstration proved fruitful when the Israeli government established the Kahan Commission. As a result of the Peace Now efforts, The Kahan…

Leadership Training and Strategy Planning Conference The Youth Division of the South East NAACP document plans and maps out the future of the Lunch Counter Sit-Ins and Desegregation. The 1960 Youth Division Primary Documents highlight student arrests, demonstrations held by the students in the South Eastern Region, conferences, and plans of action. The document is significant due to it being a written record of what happened and how the Youth Lunch Counter Sit-Ins were formed and organized. The…

Margaret Mead once said to “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world” (“Quotes about activism”). Many students around the world wholeheartedly agree with Mrs. Mead, and two prime examples were youth activism in Vietnam Era and in the pro-democracy movement of China. The Vietnam Era in the United States got its name from the longest and most controversial war in American history. In the year 1955 president Lyndon B Johnson decided to send American…

Birmingham Jail” as a response to the clergymen who questioned his demonstration techniques in their “Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen”. These eight clergymen voiced their concern that King, an outsider, controlled peaceful demonstrations against discrimination in Birmingham. Whilst the clergymen stated that they supported King’s ultimate aims, they disliked his “untimely and unwise” (“Public Statement” p 3) demonstrations. King, hoping to incite peaceful public action against…

What I discovered astonishing and befuddling in the previous week is the issue of psychological oppression over the world. My essential concern is that I think that its hard to comprehend why individuals take part in demonstrations of fear based oppression and decisively how an individual would discover delight in slaughtering an expansive number of individuals with no evident reason. It has regularly been said that, "not all Muslims are fear based oppressors, but rather all psychological…

King’s response to the clergymen; it is best to address their arguments in why they do not support King’s actions. The clergymen in their letter titled A Call for Unity believe the demonstrations taking place are “unwise and untimely.” Instead, they are in favor of negotiations between black leaders and city officials. In this letter, the clergymen go on to state that the protest taking place, although peaceful in nature, have become violent…

had man strict tests before demonstrations could take place. Martin Luther King stated that, “Not all who volunteered could pass our strict tests for service as demonstrators. But there was much to be done, over and above the dramatic act of presenting one’s body in the marches (67).”…

People’s Parliament to attend one of the demonstrations that was to be held there. As we found our way down to the demonstration we talked about how much the revolution was gaining momentum. He accredited the march in solidarity with the Sir George Williams’ students on 26th of February 1970 as the reason behind the upsurge in momentum. When I ask him why…

cause they were sent there for. They often lost public support, however, when some of their “peaceful” demonstrations turned disruptive or violent. Some considered these demonstrations as “anti-American” and “unpatriotic” for opposing the war effort (Schomp 27-28). The doves’ position, while obviously the more ethical of the two, had a very difficult time achieving their goals. Their demonstrations did boost interest and awareness, their efforts were not successful in causing the end to the…

While in the skeletal demonstration of the argument Unger describes “absolute certainty” as being perfectly compatible with the act of knowing, his later arguments concerning the cufflinks incorporate the level of absolute certainty as a baseline for knowledge. That is, while in…