Shaving head in a protest have the meaning of “No taking back and walking to the light”. Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have shaved their heads in a protest over what they see as China’s growing political control over the city. The act was meant to symbolise that the movement would make no concessions to Beijing’s ruling. To Chinese people, their hair is a gift given to us by our parents. It is precious. One day we will also give up our freedom to fight for democracy. The words “hair” and “law” sound similar in both Mandarin and Cantonese and dissidents have used head-shaving in the past to mock what they regard as China’s limited rule of law. It is their determination to show they can give something up in order to fight for something more important. This show that there is no stepping back from the reforms campaign, and that they have given up their hair in the fight for democracy. Also, the world powers’ negotiation with Tehran over its nuclear military work has overshadowed the Islamic Republic’s deteriorating human rights situation and outbreaks of social protest. Iranian men and women posted pictures on social media of themselves with shaved heads to promote solidarity with beaten political prisoners in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Prompting the creative action was a photograph of human rights lawyer Abdolfatah Soltani that showed him last week with a shaved head. He was held in Ward 350 and reported to have been a victim of the assault. The protesters are using the Persian hashtag “sarfaraz,” or “proud,” to spread their campaign, noted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated international network of activist and hacktivist entities. Beginning with 2008’s Project Chanology—a series of protests, pranks, and hacks targeting the Church of Scientology—the Anonymous collective became increasingly associated with collaborative hacktivism on a number of issues internationally. Individuals claiming to align themselves with Anonymous undertook protests and other actions (including direct action) in retaliation against anti-digital piracy campaigns by motion picture and recording industry trade associations. Anons have publicly supported WikiLeaks and the Occupy movement. The Anonymous involved in the Ferguson protests. In the hours after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, they urged residents to the streets and the hackers vowed retribution if police harmed protesters. “We are watching you very closely,” Anonymous’ distinctive electronic voice rasped in a video posted on Twitter. “If you abuse, harass or harm the protesters in Ferguson we will take every Web-based asset of your departments and federal agencies offline.” They would also, the video continued, begin publicly
releasing police officers’ personal information. Early Tuesday morning, someone posted the home address and phone number of Jon Belmar, the relatively new chief of St. Louis County police. And that was just the beginning. The Ferguson protests have been informed, if not fueled, by a stream of moment-by-moment posts, largely on Twitter. Published instantaneously via cellphones by residents at the scene, the messages have told the world when crowds amass, when police line up, when tear gas flies but Anonymous hackers have reached beyond the Web and posted more information in the following. Hundreds of phone numbers, names, IP addresses and email addresses from Chinese government websites have been leaked online by the hacktivist collective Anonymous in support of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. “We cannot be with you on the streets. We cannot fight the police that are arresting you. But they cannot arrest an idea,” Anonymous said in a statement. The hacker group first announced its support for the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong at the beginning of October, stating in a video at the time: “The time has come for democracy for the citizens of Hong Kong.”
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Listening to the news Listening to the voice from protests Understanding the protesters
Protest song A protest song is a song which is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs or songs connected to current events. Protest songs are frequently situational, having been associated with a social movement through contest. It may have significant cognitive content. Protest songs were aimed at attracting people to the movement and promoting group solidarity and commitment. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described the freedom songs this way: “They invigorate the movement in a most significant way [‌] these freedom songs serve to give unity to a movement.â€?
In the 1960s, printed T-shirts gained popularity for selfexpression as well for advertisements, protests, and souvenirs. In the 1960s, the ringer T-shirt appeared and became a staple fashion for youth and rock-n-rollers. The decade also saw the emergence of tie-dyeing and screen-printing on the basic T-shirt and the T-shirt became a medium for wearable art, commercial advertising, souvenir messages and protest art messages. Psychedelic art poster designer Warren Daytonpioneered several political, protest, and pop-culture
art printed large and in color on T-shirts featuring images of Cesar Chavez, political cartoons, and other cultural icons in an article in the Los Angeles Times magazine in late 1969. People also wear the same dress code or same colour or t-shirt to show a same message and act in protest. In September 2014 hundreds of teachers and school staff across the borough plan to show up to the first week of school wearing T-shirts that express support for the NYPD — in a show of protest against their union’s backing of last month’s march for Eric Garner.
Holding banners Taking photos Spreading out news Writing message on the street Drawing Holding candle
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Sitting on the street The Occupy movement is the international branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protests against social and economic inequality around the world, its primary goal being to make the economic and political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly distributed. The first Occupy protest to receive widespread attention was Occupy Wall Street in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, which began on 17 September 2011. By 9 October, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 951 cities across 82 countries, and over 600 communities in the United countries, and over 600 communities in the United States. The Occupy movement is partly inspired by the Arab Spring, and the Portuguese and Spanish Indignants movement in the Iberian Peninsula, the 2009 University of California occupations, as well as the overall global wave of anti-austerity protests.
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A street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in fav moving along a set route. It normally consists of walking in a mass march f orma Eric Hobsbawm says, “It implies some physical action-marching, chan qting slog is the essence of the collective experience, finds expression.� It is a for m of activis in a march. A marching is usually considered more successful if more people part before the demonstration happens to avoid embarrassment. Americ an Civil Rig to the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963. Sometime the date or location choseb f frequently chosen because of some relevance to the issue at hand. Protest marc is for considerations relating to the particular situation that is faced, including its campaigns of civil resistance.
our of a political or other cause. Marches, in which a parade demonstrate while ation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint. Historian gans, singing - through which the merger of the individual in thr mass, which sm, usually taking the form of a public gathering of people in a rally or walking ticipate. Nudity, in which people protest naked, here the antagonist may give in ghts March on Washington, leaders marching from the Washington Monumet for the marcing is of historical or culture significance. Locations are also hes is a common nonviolent tactic. The reason for avoiding the use of violence legal, cultural and power-political dimensions: this has been the case in many
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