Protest

during the playing of the National Anthem and he was kneeling while it was playing. His reasoning for why he was kneeling was to protest against police brutality and racism that is going on across the country. Last year, there were not many NFL players who supported Kaepernick and his form of protest, but this year there have been hundreds of NFL players joining in on the protest and there have been two major arguments that have developed. People who support refusing to stand for the National…

change. In a democratic society, the government would adapt social change much quicker, but in an authoritarian regime where it is primarily controlled by the whims of one person, the population has to force a change to happen, generally through mass protests and civil unrest. Monarchs like Jordan and Bahrain had only small…

Many people believe that non violent protests are the only way to protest and get anything they want out of it. People like Josephine Barker, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Gandhi just to name a few. In a letter about non violent protests, Gandhi writes " before embarking on civil disobedience and taking the risk I have dreaded to take all of these years, I would fain approach you and find…

protesting the authority of society as a whole to determine what she could do. This is an excellent example of effective peaceful resistance. The message of the anti-Trump protests was not a protest against Trump becoming president, but instead the system of democracy that elected him. Like it or not, Trump was elected, and by choosing to protest against him, you are denying the validity of the elective process and democracy. Most of the protesters did not intend to send this message, but send…

peaceful protests call for armed police, dogs, teargas, rubber bullets, and water canons to be used. Yes, some of the protesters have vandalized the pipeline equipment but none of them are armed or using any violence at all. They aren’t rioters, like we’ve seen in Baltimore or Ferguson; the native people are standing and BLOCKING the path of the pipeline. They aren’t lighting equipment of fire, shooting at the police, or doing anything like we’ve seen in the past, this is a purely peaceful…

(Ruby Bridges,1990 page N/A) Reverend Bevel, a civil rights activist pushed an unheard of plan, to recruit children for the civil rights campaign. May 2 - May 5 1963 children skipped school and protested racial segregation. Bevel, used children to protest because children did not have the fear of getting fired from their jobs. Bevel used children…

citizens to peacefully assemble. Not all protests are successful in getting a law created or changed right away, but the assemblies could still bring their problem into the spotlight and make it a bigger priority in political arguments. To gather peacefully to resist a law is good for the progression of free society, because it raises awareness about what is wrong about society and influences people in power to take action against the…

With the spread of social media as a of type mass media, allowing anyone to view or react to different political or social information is easier than ever. With the use of just one hashtag, it is easy for information to be spread from one person to thousands or potentially millions of others based on the size of their following base. Hashtagging a tweet or any photo links it together will all of the other posts that use the same hashtag, this grouping together allows for the rapid spread of…

At the core of democracy is the idea that the government serves the rights and liberties of its citizens. When the powers that be fail to do so, it is the duty of the disadvantaged and their allies to protest. Legal channels often do not give sufficient opportunity for citizens to protest these injustices. In such cases, civil disobedience is the only way to retaliate. Therefore, civil disobedience is not only beneficial to a democratic society; it is crucial to it. Politicians generally agree…

There is a current sociological event happening right now, where thousands of people have passed or are passing through the camp of Standing Rock calling themselves water protectors. A 1,200-mile-long pipeline is being constructed by a Texas based energy company called Energy Transfer. The pipeline also known as the Dakota Access Pipeline, is designed to transport 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois. The Pipeline project originally proposed to go over the…