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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
Calling For A Revolution - Serbia

Beograd - The political situation in Serbia has not changed much yet. There has been passed a special law in the Serbian parliament about accepting the results of election - which was the main cause for beginning the protests. Now the opposition and the people are waiting to see if the law will be promptly implemented, in the meantime :

Tags: Year: 1997 Location: Europe Category: Protest and Persuassion Category: NonCooperation Category: NonViolent Intervention Protest and Persuassion: Public Speeches Protest and Persuassion: Letters of opposition or support Protest and Persuassion: Declarations by organizations and institutions Protest and Persuassion: Group or mass petitions 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: Picketing Protest and Persuassion: Displays of flags and symbolic colors Protest and Persuassion: Wearing of symbols Protest and Persuassion: Displays of portraits Protest and Persuassion: New signs and names Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic reclamations Protest and Persuassion: Taunting officials Protest and Persuassion: Performances of plays and music Protest and Persuassion: Singing Protest and Persuassion: Marches Protest and Persuassion: Parades Protest and Persuassion: Motorcades Protest and Persuassion: Assemblies of protest or support Protest and Persuassion: Protest meetings Methods of NonCooperation: Student strike Methods of NonCooperation: Social disobedience Methods of NonCooperation: Protest 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 legislative bodies Methods of NonCooperation: Boycott of elections Methods of NonCooperation: Boycott of government employment and positions Methods of NonCooperation: Boycott of gov. depts., agencies, and other bodies Methods of NonCooperation: Withdrawal from government educational institutions Methods of NonCooperation: Refusal to accept appointed officials Methods of NonCooperation: Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision Methods of NonCooperation: Popular nonobedience Methods of NonCooperation: Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse Methods of NonCooperation: Deliberate inefficiency, selective noncooperation NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent harassment NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent raids NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent invasion NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent interjection NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent obstruction NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent occupation NonViolent Intervention: Overloading of facilities NonViolent Intervention: Defiance of blockades NonViolent Intervention: Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws

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