Questions tagged [protests]
Questions related to political protests where attempts by individuals or groups to address or stop perceived injustices within a political system, without overturning the system itself.
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Why are people protesting so desperately in Bangladesh
Based on what the Western media is reporting over one hundred people have been killed protesting a new government quota system that reserves up to 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans ...
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Are there fewer street protests in Switzerland than in other democratic countries?
Street protests are a wasteful activity: people walk on the streets for hours, wasting their own time, as well as the time of cops and drivers. They do this in order to have the government change its ...
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(Is it known) what, if anything, sparked the Columbia pro-Palestinian university encampment protest in mid-April specifically?
On April 17, 2024, the Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus protest began, shortly spreading to other universities in the United States. More recently they have spread abroad - where I am in the ...
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Have some colleges shown tendency to meet the demands of protesters other than Trinity College?
Trinity College Dublin agreed to divest from Israeli firms acquiescing to the demands of the students' protest. It was the first college to meet such demands after college protests broke out across ...
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Are campus protesters anti war or pro war protesters? [closed]
Watching the college protests about the war in Gaza has me wondering why some refer to them as anti war protesters. While they do sometime call for a ceasefire, the rest of their slogans clearly ...
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Why protest against the war in Gaza on the campus of Columbia University?
According to Wiki:
An ongoing occupation protest conducted by pro-Palestinian students is
occurring at Columbia University in New York City. The protests began
on April 17, 2024, when pro-Palestinian ...
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Why do protests happen in the light of their apparent futility?
Just today,
Riot police called in to disperse angry locals after [a bishop] was attacked at Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd church
There seem to be an ingrained belief that when something bad ...
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Why does the Black Lives Matter movement organize protests while the incident they're protesting is still under investigation?
Black Lives Matter is an American social justice movement which seeks to remedy the problem of extrajudicial killings of people of color by police officers among other issues. One aspect of this ...
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Why is there a broad pattern of excessive force by police towards protestors in spite of international focus on this use of force?
Right now (June 2020), sparked by the murder of George Floyd, there have been a wave of protests against police brutality towards black Americans. In these very protests, there has also been a massive ...
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Despite the high public support to fight Russia, why are some family members of soldiers protesting in Ukraine and making demands? [closed]
As this answer points out, political support to fight the Russians and retrieve occupied territories remains high among the public in Ukraine. So I was surprised when I came across the news that ...
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Who has first or most famously distinguished different stages of social movements?
Who has first or most famously distinguished 4 stages of social movements?
It is common to take social movements to have four stages: emergence, coalescence, institutionalization or bureaucratization, ...
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What happens if the President of Chile resigns?
There is currently (October 2019) a social and political crisis affecting Chile, where mass demonstrations are demanding change to the government. The militarisation of the conflict by the government (...
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Have there been any legally held demonstrations against the war (or against the "specially military operation") in Russia?
I'm well aware that Russian authorities have cracked down on spontaneous/illegal anti war demonstrations. Whereas for the pro-military-intervention ones, e.g. using the "Z" sign...
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Did any Prime Ministers go on strike before?
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/europe/iceland-women-strike-scli-intl/index.html
Women across Iceland – including the prime minister – will go on strike Tuesday as part of a campaign pushing for ...
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Trump inauguration opposition
Some celebrities and also Democrats have boycotted Donald Trump's inauguration.
There are also many demonstrations held in the country and in other countries. Has there been such a vast opposition ...
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