Sentences with phrase «mass protest movements»

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Last week, the Iranian government rounded up activists after Karrubi and Moussavi called for supporters to gather at Azadi Square - the site of mass protests by Iran's opposition movement after the disputed 2009 presidential elections.

The Travancore Pulaya mass conversion movement to Anglicanism in the latter half of 19th century was an expression of social protest.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

But this tactic becomes most powerful when it grows beyond individual to collective action and becomes part of a mass movement of resistance and protest that includes many entry points and expressions.

In August, the protests became a mass movement as more than 200,000 people gathered for the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his «I have a dream» speech.

Galvanized by the international student protest movement of the late 1960s, Farocki developed an experimental documentary style integrating his own material with footage appropriated from a range of sources, including mass media, surveillance, and political propaganda.

Protest marches and demonstrations with 100,000 participants: the peace movement in the US mobilized the masses and reached far beyond national borders.