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wanted to share a few of my thoughts while they're still fresh. cw: anti-fascist propaganda, me mansplaining, white supremacy in politicized feminism, incoherent rambling Friday, I joined my comrades in taking the streets for #ResistFromDayOne protests, and it was beautiful. Rather than applauding the lies and empty promises of self-interested politicians at the inauguration (even / especially in a hypothetical Clinton victory), it was a decentralized movement, a coming together of indigenous…

The fact that the NFL just decided to "take a knee" because Donald Trump called them a bunch of "sons of bitches" disappoints me because that is a horrible reason to kneel. I know not all players think that, but the league wide protest did not start until Donald Trump insulted them. This is not anything new. I hate how that was the tipping point that brought the NFL players and owners together to kneel. People have different reasons to stand or kneel, but if they are kneeling because of what…

challenges on exerting control with a weak military. Among scholarship there has been a consensus that if an extremely repressive regime has a weak military this can caused the opposition movements to increase and go out into the streets and protest about their discomforts against the…

Peaceful Protests for the Betterment of Society Throughout the history of the world, there are usually two sides to every story, from the point of view of the oppressed and from the point of view of the oppressors. Most often, the oppressors or victors get to tell the version that they find most convenient, but they often leave out certain things that would make them look less glorious in the eyes of history. However, the oppressed have a voice that the oppressors cannot completely silence…

The Power of Protest In a study conducted at Turlock High School, out of fifty students who were asked what came to mind when they thought of protesting, 64% had negative perspectives and understandings of the action. The responses of this 64% ranged from descriptions of riots and violence to passionate statements in relation to the act’s ineffectiveness and inability to cause any form of change. Recently, protesting has developed an overall pessimistic connotation and been viewed as a…

because one needs them for work, or marching for a cause without a permit. Assuming a free society, there are many legal avenues to protest or raise awareness of an absence or infringement on freedom. History has shown that in the context of providing additional freedoms, peaceful resistance works and can have a positive impact. However, when it is used to protest perceived “wrongs” that are not linked to additional freedoms, it does not seem to benefit society.…

relationships are an important mechanism for bringing individuals into a social movement (McAdam, 1986), but how they impact participation in protests has been debated, and arguably misunderstood. Previous research has mostly examined protest relationships in the context of how active protest participants use these relationships to recruit non-participants into protests. The literature has failed to investigate thoroughly these non-participants who, despite friendships or close ties to…

Riots are pitiful way to get your own opinion across to many, according to Katelyn Booth in All Riots Matter, especially when those riots do more harm than good within society. Participating in the act of calling out a majority group (rioters) by pointing out certain aspects of their actions as childish in order to prove in today’s divided society that rioting is not the answer to all of the world’s problems. Booth urges the world population to understand that riots make situation worse and show…

In my paper, I tried avoiding just explaining what the Korean Armistice Agreement was because I felt like that was too easy as well required very little thought. I focused on the problems of the Korean Armistice Agreement because I have family that lives in South Korea as well I find the Korean Armistice Agreement to be very problematic for multiple reasons. I divided the essay by having each paragraph focus on a specific problem or two problems that connected with each other. The problems that…

An article, written by Paige St. John and James Queally, discusses the violence that arose during a protest against racism at UC Berkeley this previous Sunday. The group that caused the majority of the violence was dressed, head-to-toe, in black and is known as Antifa. This group believes that they are the protection for the public against people whose beliefs fall to the right side of the political spectrum. Antifa attacked a small group of Trump supporters and resorted to calling them…