Protest

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• 12/22/19
  

  China Needs to Change Strategy After Hong Kong Elections

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  With the depth of dissatisfaction in Hong Kong now made patently clear at the ballot box, China and Xi now face a difficult choice. Will it double down on repression or listen to the people and choose a new course that will require some compromise?

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  12/9/19
  

  Hundreds of scholars protest Harvard's decision to deny tenure to Latinx studies professor

  García Peña's case has become a rallying cry for Harvard students and alumni who have been pushing the university to establish an ethnic studies department for nearly 50 years.

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• 12/8/19
  

  The Power of the 2017 Congressional Recess

  by Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin

  Leaders got involved because the country had fallen into the hands of a vile, dangerous bully. They were not going to put up with harassment in their own communities.

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• 11/10/19
  

  Echoes of the 1969 Vietnam War Protests 50 Years Later

  by Jim Castagnera

  "As I watch events unfolding in Washington today, I recall the river of candles flowing up Fifth Avenue fifty years ago. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/1/19
  

  The Spirit That Brought Down the Berlin Wall Lives On

  by Robert Cohen

  Bloodless revolutions from Armenia to Lebanon are about ending the fatalism corrupt rule engenders.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/5/19
  

  The History Behind the Guy Fawkes Masks and Protest

  by Sara Barrett

  All around the world, protesters wear Guy Fawkes masks to conceal their identity in service of a cause.

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• 11/3/19
  

  China and the NBA: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  China's relationship with NBA is one of the great successes in its cultural and commercial relations with the United States, and a powerful example of Sino-American ‘sports diplomacy’.

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• 11/3/19
  

  Lebanon’s Chance for Change

  by James Stocker

  Lebanon has a long history of internal crisis and protest. It is tempting to see the same potential for instability in the latest rounds of protests in Lebanon, but this time, there may be something truly different.

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• 10/27/19
  

  “The Uplift of All” Through Nonviolent Direct Action

  by Michael Honey

  Nonviolence struggle links you backward and forward to generations of people who have changed the world and provides a personal link to others that can sustain a life of activism.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/23/19
  

  Why China should recognize that dissent can be patriotic

  by Charlotte Brooks

  History suggests that narrowly defining Chinese identity will backfire.

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• 10/20/19
  

  Can a 1960s-like Counterculture Emerge?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Today we have just as much reason to protest as did the 1960’s dissidents. We need a counterculture, or an opposing culture or way of life, to embolden our emotions and imaginations and challenge "throaway" consumer culture. 

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  10/7/19
  

  The NBA's cowardice on China

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "The NBA just threw Hong Kong under the bus, purely for the sake of the almighty dollar. And if that’s not outrageous, I don’t know what is."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 23, 2019
  

  Protesters shut down D.C. traffic before. It helped end the Vietnam War — and reshaped American activism.

  by Hannah Natanson

  Thousands of protesters against the Vietnam War took to the streets of downtown Washington in May 1971 with a single goal: Bring traffic to a total, grinding halt in the nation’s capital.

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• 9/29/19
  

  Climate Change: A Worldwide Catastrophe In The Making

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The United Nations Climate Action Summit revealed how far presidents and prime ministers are willing to go avoid the terrible consequences of global warming.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/23/19
  

  How Understanding the History of the Earth's Climate Can Offer Hope Amid Crisis

  by John Brooke, Michael Bevis and Steve Rissing

  Our planet’s relationship to carbon dioxide has changed drastically before; it can change again. 

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• 9/22/19
  

  The Long History of Activism Preceding The Hong Kong Democracy Protests

  by Susan Blumberg-Kason

  For the last 100 years, Hong Kong has seen mass protests. They'll only stop when people feel they have a voice in government. 

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• 91/1/9
  

  Where Are the Hong Kong Protests Headed?

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  After ten weeks of protest by students and others in Hong Kong the crisis seems to be spiraling toward a tragic climax.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/14/19
  

  Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.

  by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all.

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• 8/18/19
  

  “This letter is the last that I write to you:" The Courage of Youth Resisters in World War 2 France

  by Ronald C. Rosbottom

  Young people's impatience, their perceptive view of a better tomorrow, their faith in the power of solidarity, and their energetic fearlessness reminds us adults that change is possible. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/16/19
  

  The History Behind Hong Kong's Ongoing Protests

  Victoria Hui, a Hong Kong native and political scientist at the University of Notre Dame, explains Hong Kong's political history as protests continue there.