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Redefining Protest in Copenhagen
The art of protest is being redefined in Copenhagen. Yes, tens of thousands marched peacefully on Saturday, and some opted for sticks and stones. But another group, the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, has embraced the bicycle as a symbol and medium for a new kind of environmental protest.On Wednesday morning, hundreds of bikers will swoop toward the building hosting the UN negotiations over climate change. This activist cavalry aims to divert enough police from the Bella Center to enable other protesters to successfully storm the fences cocooning negotiators and launch an alternative "people's summit" on climate change.
Tags: Year: 2009 Location: Europe Category: Protest and Persuassion Category: NonCooperation Category: NonViolent Intervention Protest and Persuassion: Declarations by organizations and institutions Protest and Persuassion: Slogans, caricatures, and symbols Protest and Persuassion: Newspapers and journals Protest and Persuassion: Records, radio, and television Protest and Persuassion: Group Representations Protest and Persuassion: Group lobbying Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic Public Acts Protest and Persuassion: Drama and Music Protest and Persuassion: Humorous skits and pranks Protest and Persuassion: Performances of plays and music Protest and Persuassion: Singing Protest and Persuassion: Protest meetings Methods of NonCooperation: Protest strike NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent interjection NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent obstruction Video: Has Video
Mobilizing citizens to turn off their lights everyday to protest government corruption

Citizen Initiative for Constant Light mobilized 30 million people in Turkey to turn off and on their lights to demand that the government act against corruption. The action resulted from public outrage after a car crash openly revealed connections between government, police and the mob. Turkey is a secular nation with a tradition of democracy. But it also has a tradition of human rights abuse. The influence of corruption extends throughout society through local patronage systems undeterred by any investigative reporting from a mass media industry, which is itself complicit in the corruption. As a result, the corruption issue has historically sparked only apathy and hopelessness in Turkish civil society.

Tags: Year: 2002 Year: 2001 Year: 1997 Location: Europe Category: Protest and Persuassion Category: NonCooperation Category: NonViolent Intervention Protest and Persuassion: Formal Statements Protest and Persuassion: Declarations by organizations and institutions Protest and Persuassion: Declarations of indictment and intention Protest and Persuassion: Group or mass petitions Protest and Persuassion: Formal Statements Protest and Persuassion: Communications with a Wider Audience Protest and Persuassion: Slogans, caricatures, and symbols Protest and Persuassion: Banners, posters, displayed communications Protest and Persuassion: Leaflets, pamphlets, and books Protest and Persuassion: Newspapers and journals Protest and Persuassion: Records, radio, and television Protest and Persuassion: IT messaging - Mass SMS and e-mailing Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic Public Acts Protest and Persuassion: Displays of flags and symbolic colors Protest and Persuassion: Wearing of symbols Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic lights Protest and Persuassion: Displays of portraits Protest and Persuassion: New signs and names Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic reclamations Protest and Persuassion: Humorous skits and pranks Protest and Persuassion: Performances of plays and music Protest and Persuassion: Protest meetings Protest and Persuassion: Walk-outs Methods of NonCooperation: Social boycott Methods of NonCooperation: Selective social boycott Methods of NonCooperation: Student strike Methods of NonCooperation: Social disobedience Methods of NonCooperation: Total personal noncooperation Methods of NonCooperation: Slowdown strike Methods of NonCooperation: Limited strike Methods of NonCooperation: Selective strike Methods of NonCooperation: Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance Methods of NonCooperation: Refusal of public support Methods of NonCooperation: Literature and speeches advocating resistance Methods of NonCooperation: Boycott of gov. depts., agencies, and other bodies NonViolent Intervention: Fast of moral pressure NonViolent Intervention: Sit-in NonViolent Intervention: Pray-in NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent obstruction NonViolent Intervention: Guerrilla theater NonViolent Intervention: Physical Intervention NonViolent Intervention: Social Intervention
Song and Walk for Aung San Suu Kyi
Song and Walk for Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been awarded the 2009 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience award. The announcement was made by Irish rock band U2 in Dublin on Monday night.U2's lead singer Bono announced Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's award before the band performed the song 'Walk On', which they have dedicated to her on every night of their '360 Degrees' tour.
Tags: Year: 2009 Location: Europe Category: Protest and Persuassion Protest and Persuassion: Public Speeches Protest and Persuassion: Communications with a Wider Audience Protest and Persuassion: Records, radio, and television Protest and Persuassion: Mock awards Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic Public Acts Protest and Persuassion: Displays of portraits Protest and Persuassion: Drama and Music Protest and Persuassion: Performances of plays and music Video: Has Video

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