Tag: protest

• In Nigeria chop means to eat with moral or criminal greed. ChopCassava.com is therefore an editorial documentation of the people’s protest as it unfolds as well as a revelation of many layers of disconnect between power and people In 2012, Chopcassava Documented Nigeria’s Fuel Subsidy Struggle

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  05/06/2015

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  documentary, Nigeria, protest, Video

• This article examines the civil society campaign to stop the construction of a military base in South Korea as a case study in both the promises and limits of global advocacy networks in the digital media age. First the article traces the historical and political contexts leading up to the 2007 decision by the South…

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  22/01/2015

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  activism, advocacy, military, protest, social media, South Korea

• The extensive use of social media for protest purposes was a distinctive feature of the recent protest events in Spain, Greece, and the United States. Like the Occupy Wall Street protesters in the United States, the indignant activists of Spain and Greece protested against unjust, unequal, and corrupt political and economic institutions marked by the…

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  22/01/2015

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  austerity, greece, protest, social media, spain, usa

• From the globalization protests of the previous decade to the more recent Occupy Movement, activists have embraced the use of digital video. Many appropriations of the technology, including those by human rights advocates, rest on the theory that ‘seeing is believing’ and understand video to be uniquely suited to forms of truth telling such as…

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  21/01/2015

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  activism, protest, solidarity, Video, violence

• The frustration of activists against MPs felt to have escaped justice boils over in Ukraine. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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  16/10/2014

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  accountability, corruption, justice, politics, protest, ukraine