Category: Protest
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The Importance of Right to Protest
Nowadays, many activists accuse common citizens of indifference towards injustice. The classmate’s post provides a specific point of view that nobody should be obliged to protest. Indeed, people are vested with power to stand up for themselves and defy unjust laws, but the cost of this fight may be too high. Americans have an obligation…
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Large-Scale Protests in Puerto Rico in 2019
Large-scale protests in Puerto Rico in summer 2019 began after the public presentation of the correspondence between Ricardo Rosselló, the head of state, and his team. About 900 pages of messages in Telegram were clarified and made available to people. Since the data leaked, more than 500,000 Puerto Ricans took part in the protest against…
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The Chicago Race Riot of 1919: Unraveling Racial Tensions and Shaping History
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was a violent conflict between the white and black residents of Chicago, Illinois, that lasted for five days, from July 27 to August 1. The riot was sparked by a series of events that led to tensions between the two communities, including a recent movement of African Americans from…
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The Houston Riot 1917 from Primary Sources
During the time of the mutiny of African American Troops in 1917, racism prevailed significantly in the US. People of color were against racist government officers and systems, while the whites wanted to preserve their supremacy. This led to the outbreak of many rebellions in the US, including one in Houston. This study will evaluate…
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Egyptian Protests and Revolution
Revolution in Egypt is a series of street demonstrations and protests in Cairo, Alexandria, and some other cities (including in the capitals of foreign states near the Egyptian embassies). It led to the resignation of the government and then-President Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power since 1981 (Bassiouni 64). As a result of the…
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The Impact of the Resistance Protests and Crimes Against the South African Apartheid
Friedman, S. (2017). The Sounds of Silence: Structural Change and Collective Action in the Fight against Apartheid. South African Historical Journal, 69(2), 236-250. An academic article about the collective actions in the fight against Apartheid reveals why the resistance became stronger 1970s and shows what historical events affected the spread of the protest movement. Friedman…
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The Hardhat Riot: The Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
The Hardhat Riot by Kuhn entailed an account of the 1970 dispute between citizens dissenting against the unending war between Southeast Asia and New York City construction workers. Four days after the Kent State tragedy, violence erupted on May 8, 1970. Kuhn, a profound writer for C.B.S. news, RealClearPolitics, and Politico, explained how the tension…
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Mass Arrests at 2004 Republican Convention Protest
Table of Contents Parties Facts Prior proceedings Issues presented or questions of law Arguments or objectives of the parties Holding/ the rule of law Rationale Relation of the case to the core value of Integrity References Parties Hacer Dinler, et al., Michael Schiller, et al., Deirdre MacNamara, et al. (Plaintiffs) v. The City of New…
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Socrates and Thoreau on Law, Protest, and Politics
More than two thousand years separate such philosophers as Socrates and Thoreau. One of them lived in Ancient Greece long before the Industrial and market revolutions, and another was a citizen of the 19th-century United States as it gradually became an industrial powerhouse of the globalizing world. It seems reasonable to assume that the problems…
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Riots in Detroit and Los Angeles
Causes and Motives of the Detroit Rioters During the Second World War, Detroit was the center of the American automobile industry and was considered a developing and prosperous city. However, the problem that virtually all the major cities of the United States of that time faced was racial inequality and intolerance (Santoro and Broidy 335).…