#protest movements

[u-mspcoll]

Next week! Voices of Dissent: Protests Against Richard Nixon

Flyer announcing protest of a Republican Party fundraising dinner. (Subject Vertical Files, Joseph A. Labadie Collection)

Join us on the 6th floor of Hatcher next Thursday, 17 October between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester! 

This event will commemorate the 50th anniversary of a pivotal moment in American politics: President Richard Nixon's resignation. Artifacts and narratives from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection illuminate an era that sparked a powerful and enduring anti-war movement and fueled widespread activism. Light refreshments will be served. 

While you’re here, pick up a Third Thursday Passport and collect a stamp from each of the three Third Thursday Open Houses — the Clark Library, International Studies, and the Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize!

[sayruq]

btw now is the best time to keep boycotting. the israeli economy has never been weaker. don't stop the protests or the demands for divestment. keep supporting organisations like the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Accountability Archive. ofc don't stop boosting and donating to Palestinians as Gaza is still uninhabitable.

enjoy this moment but the work has not ended

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

Protesters today have an opportunity

They can claim more victories if they take better advantage of what I call, in my recent book, ‘the new science of social change’ – the latest scientific evidence on what protest tactics tend to produce the best results. In terms of positive outcomes such as building public support for a cause, pressuring officeholders to implement favourable policies, or spurring desired institutional reforms, some approaches have been shown to work better than others.

[pastdaily]

View From Tunisia - View From The Bowling Alley - March 18, 1958

Become a Subscriber via Patreon: Become a Patron! https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/life-and-the-world-march-18-1958.mp3 – NBC Radio News – Life and The World – March 18, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News on this day in 1958 was something of a mixed bag, at least from mainstream media’s point of view. Word from North Africa had trouble brewing in newly independent…

[thoughtportal]

join a union

the power of collection action

[lesmotsquinousmanqueny]

Shoutouts to Slovakians, they were 100k this Friday rallying against their pro-russian PM.

Shoutouts to Serbian students, they have been leading the largest student movement in decades, protesting to denounce and to end systematic corruption.

Shoutouts to Georgian citizens, they have been protesting for more than 70 days now against their government's pro-russian turn, facing criminal policemen.

And finally shoutouts to German citizens rallying nationwide in protest of Merz's political hand to the AfD.

[folk-enjoyer]

James H. Karales, 1965. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

James Baldwin and Joan Baez in Selma, Alabama, 1965

[kropotkindersurprise]

Mario Savio giving a speech at Berkeley in 1964 during an occupation of the university.

I mistakenly labeled this as an occupation and speech against the Vietnam war. It was in fact an occupation by the Free Speech Movement, who objected to attacks on free speech and academic freedom during the cold war, when "radical" student groups were banned and faculty had to swear an anti-Communist loyalty oath or be fired. Students objected to universities being used as a source of knowledge and innovation for the military industrial complex but not being allowed to speak their minds that, which does have a lot of parallels with the current occupations.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

[ghost-37]

Black people have culturally subsidized this country since our arrival

[can-we-be-kind]

I genuinely wonder if this is going to start something

Will more people start killing CEOs?

Are there more people willing to potentially give up their freedom for the ‘greater good’?

How many people are in the position to actually access a weapon and be within proximity to a billionaire?

Will there actually be a revolution?

Are people too scared to actually start something?

Are the people who want to, too young, too weak, too ill, ect. to actually be able to do something?

Are you able to actively do something?

Are you able to go outside right now and kill a CEO?

Are the charities working? Are the protests working? Are the movements working?

Is it really getting better?

Maybe if you don’t like something, you should do something.

I dunno man, maybe 1700s France was onto something

[sayruq]

[romanisweird]

Hell yeah brother!

Because of recent news I drew this

It is very much inspired by this!

[glowing-blue-feathermage]

[pastdaily]

Protest In 1968: The Young Rebels - Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

Coffee works too: https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/the-young-rebels-1968.mp3 NBC Radio – Second Sunday: The Young Rebels – 1968 – In case you forgot or weren’t around at the time, 1968 was a tumultuous year in our history. It was the year just about everything fell apart. From the war in Vietnam, to assassinations of much-loved leaders, to an entire country going out on strike.…