...ecuted the uprisings and continues to direct the movement. We are witnessing a shift in power from the leaders to the people. This shift demands that these rulers take heed of the will and strength of popular demand. The mass mobilization in epicenters like Tahrir encouraged other populations in the region to follow. Citizens rose up against the Egyptian regime, which for decades stood in the way of Palestinian aspirations. Since Mubarak stepped...
...s to be released. The constant push by Western governments to the Soviets to release political pressures convinced the Soviets to release dissidents who quickly resumed their political activities against the state. The social mobilization that can result from such opportunities erodes a repressive regime’s control of information and public discourse. Such constant and relentless focus on human rights abuses ultimately left the government with lit...
...he recent parliamentary elections, we might expect mass demonstrations similar to those in 2009. Even if a 2009-style, pro-democracy movement of liberally minded youth does not emerge (perhaps due to the perceived futility of mobilization), it is possible that both the Principlists and clerical establishment would seek to mobilize their own mass protests to bolster their respective claims to political legitimacy. At this stage, the outcome of the...
llustration by Maddy Kloss Some of the snapshots from Chile’s ongoing student movement depict a lighthearted mobilization. Led by the charismatic Camila Vallejo, the students have used Twitter and Facebook to stage kiss-a-thons and superhero-themed costume protests. But other images have been more violent. Protesters have taken to the streets and set fire to government buildings and private businesses. In return, they have been bombarded with w...
...oluntary Internet survey data shows that Occupiers self-identified less and less strongly as independents and more and more strongly as Democrats as the movement progressed. He says this may lead to an increase in progressive mobilization for the 2012 election, particularly with Obama’s new populist-leaning message. Gitlin agreed with the upcoming tie between President Obama and the Occupy Wall Street movement, both in terms of the resonance with...
...just static acts of remembrance of fallen friends. Instead, as Hite put it, “Commemorations mobilize the past with an eye to the here and now.” In other words, memorials are both representations of the past and “vehicles for mobilization” that can invigorate those who stand before them. Indeed, in many cases these memorials (and, more broadly, the intersection of politics and memory that drives their creation) are actively redefining identity an...
...ical will of the SCAF and even the Muslim Brotherhood. And it has exhausted revolutionary forces. Had the court’s June 14 verdicts been made in 2011, there would have been more zeal to fix the transition turned coup. The mass mobilization of peaceful protesters achieved success in its removal of Mubarak from power. But as clear remnants of the regime remain, the best method for revolutionary forces is to politically organize rather than be reacti...
...f the networks to which they belonged in their previous residences. Small associations develop within the slum, centered around kinship ties or some other salient identity grouping to form low-level community organization and mobilization projects. This includes basic welfare schemes, into which every individual pays a monthly lump sum, which is, in turn, paid out either to community members in dire need, or in times of good to fund entrepreneuri...
...police cars, and ambulances, into previously excluded communities, the implementation of paved roads did much to improve living conditions. Rebecca Abers, political science professor at the University of Brasília, noted that mobilization around issues of pavement and sanitation were “not surprising” because “the effect in many cases was to transform dangerous, dark, and difficult-to-reach areas into integrated parts of the city,” highlighting th...
...nts of pluralism in their own home nation. Minority groups, including Christian and Hindu groups, have joined in the anti-terrorism riots. The events organized through the SIC have become the inchoate sign for cross-community mobilization. In a manner that escapes the predictions of statisticians and the lessons learned of development agencies, Tunisia, Egypt, and the recently riot-filled Yemen institute the chain of reform in governance that has...
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