Showing results for "Social Protest" in Social Sciences

From the Women's March in DC to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests and social activism. These events have been an important part of the battle to combat racism, authoritarianism, and xenophobia in Trump's America. However, the struggle for social justice continues long after the posters and megaphones have been packed away. After the protests are heard, how can we continue to work toward lasting change?

Times of great change did not occur by man's desire for change, but through protest and persistence. Across the globe, it seems we are in an era of protest and drive. Not since the '60s have we seen political divides and awareness of this magnitude, and it is shaping all aspects of our day to day life. While some feel lost in despair and fear, we can look to the past and rise up ourselves. Protest changes the world like nothing else has to date. What change do you want to fight for?

America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. The Diversity Delusion argues that the root of this problem is the belief in America’s endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has engendered a metastasizing diversity bureaucracy in society and academia.

On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway—the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced dead. By Sunday, women have taken to the streets across Iran, setting their headscarves on fire and cursing the Supreme Leader. Months later, workers down their tools and businesses close. The battle-cry everywhere: Women, Life, Freedom.

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anti-colonial struggle would continue. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.

Since the 2016 election, college campuses have erupted in violent protests, demands for safe spaces, and the silencing of views that activist groups find disagreeable. Who are the leaders behind these protests, and what do they want? In Panic Attack, libertarian journalist Robby Soave answers these questions by profiling young radicals from across the political spectrum.

"Protest Turns Violent at Donald Trump Rally in California" is from the April 29, 2016, US section of The New York Times. It was written by Steve Kenny and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

"Protests Erupt in Charlotte after Police Kill a Black Man" is from the September 21, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Alan Blinder and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Protests and Storms Make North Carolina's Election Year 'a Bizarre Experience'" is from the October 25, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Richard Fausset and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Protest Against South Korean President Estimated to Be Largest Yet" is from the November 26, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Protests Erupt in Poland Over New Law on Public Gatherings" is from the December 13, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Rick Lyman and Joanna Berendt and narrated by Kristi Burns.

In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the 20th-century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the Low Country and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten.

"Will Dominant Images of Conventions Be of Unity or Protest?" is from the June 22, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Trip Gabriel and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Alton Sterling Shooting by Baton Rouge Police Sets off Protests" is from the July 06, 2016 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Jonah Engel Bromwich and Mike Mcphate and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Netanyahu Criticizes American Jewish Leaders over Western Wall Protest" is from the November 02, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Isabel Kershner and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"In Ireland, 'Baptism Barrier' for Public Schools Draws Protests" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Douglas Dalby and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post comes a meticulously detailed, insightful report on the killing that brought the nation's attention to a city coming apart at the seams.

Three minutes in middle America shook a nation to its foundation. To many, it shone a spotlight on the frequently violent, often deadly interactions between young men of color and police departments. It highlighted the racial disparity in policing techniques, in response to crime, and in how race relations are perceived in an America where many incorrectly pride the country on being "post-racial."

Renowned journalist Wesley Lowery has pulled together a vast and troubling panorama of reportage on the Ferguson slaying, and the aftermath--the marches, the clashes, and the slow, painful process of building trust between a devastated community and a police department tasked with serving and protecting it.

Challenging and necessary, Ferguson engages America in a frank and necessary dialogue about race relations, about legacies of bigotry that continue to this day, and about a path forward as one nation, equal under the law.

Contributors include: Joel Achenbach, Mark Berman, Lindsey Bever, Jeremy Borden, Amy Brittain, DeNeen L. Brown, Philip Bump, Jessica Contrera, Jahi Chikwendiu, Niraj Chokshi, Robert Costa, Alice Crites, David A. Fahrenthold, Darryl Fears, Marc Fisher, J. Freedom du Lac, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Chico Harlan, Dana Hedgpeth, Peter Hermann, Scott Higham, Peter Holley, Sari Horwitz, Greg Jaffe, Sarah Kaplan, Kimbriell Kelly, Kimberly Kindy, Sarah Larimer, Carol D. Leonnig, Jerry Markon, Michael E. Miller, David Montgomery, Brian Murphy, David Nakamura, Abby Phillip, Steven Rich, Manuel Roig-Franzia, Robert Samuels, Sandhya Somashekhar, John Sullivan, Julie Tate, Krissah Thompson, Neely Tucker.

"Crackdowns on Protests Rise across a Europe Increasingly Afraid of Terror" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Raphael Minder and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Amid Protests over Police Shootings of Black Men, Latinos Note a Disparity" is from the July 14, 2016 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Rick Rojas and Samantha Schmidt and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"'Rolling Coal,' as a Protest or a Prank, Puts Smokey in Pursuit" is from the September 04, 2016, US section of The New York Times. It was written by Hiroko Tabuchi and narrated by Kristi Burns.