Protest

regulation are set to have five factors that can officially label restrictions as valid or not. These factors derive from the Heffron v. Int’l Soc. Of Krishna Consciousness. These five factors help determine the legality of punishing or restricting protests and other public speeches. The first factor is that the regulation must be content-neutral. This is when you cannot over or under. This has to be mainstream and both parties have to be on the same level of severity. Rules have to take into…

method of Civil Rights protest. The OWS follows the same creative non-violent path by occupying physical spaces, such as Wall Street, to protest the financialization of the American economy and the oppression of the American citizen through the financial sector. The slow dissolution of civic protest is part of the blatant trends of oligarchic power emanating through Wall Street and the government in…

the principle of love.” Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the biggest advocates of demonstration through civil disobedience in world history. The purpose of civil disobedience is to be able to peacefully protest laws. This type of outcry can spur change without the violence other types of protests involve. It is the best way for citizens to express their discontent with the government and current laws without causing injury or excessive disruption. This is especially relevant today. Peaceful…

Civil disobedience has been used by many historical figures to protest certain laws the most famous being Martin Luther King Jr. While they made huge impacts it raises the question, is does it make a positive or a negative impact on the people and our society. Recently there have been many "protests" as they are called that have been very violent and have hurt many Americans and society as a whole. But, in my point of view civil disobedience is both safer and a more positive influence on the…

Congressman Lewis’s graphic memoir March Book One and March Book Two, by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, expresses the importance and effectiveness of nonviolent activism against the white privileged society. Violent acts such as terrorism, wars and physical abuse in history has debilitated the citizens economic, political, and mental circumstances of society as whole. African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement have proven that forms of nonviolent activism is effective to fight injustices…

The Impossible Will Take a Little While is an exceptional piece on finding hope in difficult circumstances. While the main point is on political hope, that is not the only kind found throughout the book. Each part has stories filled with this central message while staying true to who the author is as an individual because each chapter has their motivation for desiring change. What causes these desires is different for each person, but these stories can be the key to generating change at a local…

delivery man who works for Italian owners of Sal’s Pizzeria. Lee successfully captures the tension and racism during the time period, but also the use of violence as a means of protest through the use of symbolism, camera angles, lighting and other forms of artistic direction to show the unsettling effects that violent protests can have. Using these artistic techniques…

Take a few steps back, back to when a group of colonists arrived with humble aspirations to start a life free from religious persecution. Take a step forward, in the direction of economic growth, when the little thirteen colonies were no longer scattered colonies, barely making ends meet, but rather a formidable force with abundant resources. Now tip toe through the silent anger that fumed at the unreasonable taxes that burdened the middle class. Britain’s mercantilistic shadow and unjust…

a nation and forced us to reckon with what it means to be American. In the face of these trying times, one of the greatest tools that is guaranteed to us by the constitution in order to uphold our democracy is the power of peaceful resistance and protest. Despite the risks that it brings, civil disobedience…

Should professional athletes use their status to protest the events taking place today? This is a common question being asked today, and some people say that it is alright for professional athletes to utilize their status, nevertheless it is disrespectful for them to not stand for the national anthem. Others say that professional athletes shouldn’t use their status to protest the events taking place today, and that is what I agree with. Athletes shouldn’t mix politics and sports. For example,…