However, his opinion is vastly different from the man whose statue was the center of
recent violent protests in Charlottesville last year: Robert E. Lee.
Although both events resulted in some administrative changes on both campuses and freer access to dissident opinion,
the recent violent protest on the U.C. Berkeley campus have been completely antithetical to the ideology expressed a bit more than half a century ago on college campuses across the country.
Not exact matches
The
recent violent U.C. Berkeley student
protests were intended to deny students and others from hearing a dissident speaker's thoughts and comments.
In a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper after
recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the
violent protests concerning the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue led to the loss of three lives, West reflected, «We are dealing with the life and death of the American democratic experiment, what I mean by that is the spiritual blackout, the eclipse of honesty and integrity; moral meltdown where there's no space for prophetic witness of love and justice.»
In a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper after
recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the
violent protests concerning the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue led to the loss of three lives, West reflected, «We are dealing with the life and death of the American democratic experiment, what I mean by that is the spiritual blackout, the eclipse of honesty and integrity; moral...
Protests rocked cities across Brazil in June 2013, and in Chile, recent student protests turned
Protests rocked cities across Brazil in June 2013, and in Chile,
recent student
protests turned
protests turned
violent.
Referencing the ways that landscapes have been politicized through historical events — from the
violent expansion of the American West, colonialism, war, and abolition, through to more
recent race riots and social
protests — Mehretu began by combining photographs from these events with nineteenth - century landscape paintings.
ephemera: In the light of things like the
recent Barcelona
protest though, it seems that even the most peaceful
protest can actually bring quite a
violent retaliation from the police who are?
Moreover, if you look at
recent events such as the
violent protests through much of the UK and Europe against government cutbacks and austerity, it would appear that the Left are somewhat more inclined to resort to violence in order to advance their political goals.