social movements Flashcards

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increase in number of protests

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1.1k in 1950s

19901 over 4k

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when was Tienemen square protest

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1989- 15th April began - organised by students over government corruption
4th June martial law declared and 300k troops moved to Beijing killing bystanders and protesters

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2013 Ukrainian protest

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2013- president Yanukovych cancelled economic agreement with the EU and Putin offered $15 billion loan to join Russian trade group
police killed 84 people
France, Germany and Poland’s convoys tried to forge a compromise
president disappeared before emerging in Russia saying a coup had overthrown him

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American protests over SA

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1985-90 over investment in SA firms
camp-out in Princeton and Santa Cruz, Iowa students renamed admin building ‘Biko hall’ after murdered SA student and Colombian students crowded in 5k to hear Jesse Jackson speak + barricaded Hamilton Hall

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Internet hosts per thousand

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  1. 2 in USA and 84 extremist sites linked US to Middle-Eastern fundraising efforts, ideology sharing and propaganda
  2. 02 hosts in Paraguay
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attack on Mosque in India

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1992 in Uttar Pradesh
men affiliated to 3 Hindu nationalist groups and in Bombay the Shiv Sena took advantage of their attack to stir up anti-Muslim sentiment
courts condemned the attack on the mosque but offered no advice

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Floyd protests effects on police unfavourability and discrimination

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according to NS, a weekly survey averaging 900 respondents a day, increased it by 0.28 points (27% of a standard deviation) and increased perceptions of discrimination by African Americans by 16% of a sd
of little relevance in terms of favorability towards socialists, evangelicals and whites

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Dec 2014 BLM protest

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50k marched in NY shouting ‘hands up, don’t shoot, i cant breathe’ and tens of thousands elsewhere carried out acts of civil disobedience
in response to Mike Brown’s murder and failure to indict the officer after video footage of Eric Garner being choked to death

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Obama ‘open door policy’

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regular contact with activists, national policing commission, empowering department of justice to investigate and file reports

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Poland protestss

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June 30th 1980- increased meat prices announces. the next day workers went on strike + throughout the whole of July
Aug 14th several thousand workers strike in Gdansk Lenin shipyard and these workers were given large wage increases + other demands were met

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Inter-factory strike committee

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  • formed list of 21 demands including call for trade union independent of the communist party - by end of the month 700k in strike in 700 enterprises in 49 regions
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Montgomery improvement association

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December 1955- rallies, car pools organised

bus segregation made illegal in 1956

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st Augustine florida protests

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1964 King led - media attention of assaults of black people. civil rights bill passed the next day

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march from selma to montgomery

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march 1965- 600 people began but police brutality
restarted March 21st - 2000 people escorted by troops + voter registration drive
1965 voting rights act

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NAACP pushing equality

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legal aid/ funding that got rid of separate but equal in plessy v ferguson and through lobbying

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‘push’

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Jesse Jackson formed multi-million covenants with fortune 500 companies. agreed to appoint 32 African wholesalers and $1.5 mill to entrepreneurs