This isn’t highly recommended, though it was the catalyst for the Arab Spring in 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi wished to make a statement about economic injustice in Tunisia and committed suicide by fire. Other forms of protest include setting yourself on fire. Words can’t do it justice, so watch it here:
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One of the most innovative protests at the Art Gallery in Vancouver was led by local comedian Alexander Lasarev, who conducted a silent march using the slogans from the movie They Live. King wrote at length about the importance for black protesters to become creative dissenters. In other words, successful activism requires changing the repertoire of contention-the set of actions most individuals in society recognize as protest tactics.” In one of his last published pieces, Dr. So what does this all mean for our movement? According to Nicolas de Zamaróczy, from his seminar Finding Ways to Creatively Dissent: “The key attribute of successful protest movements is that they involve creative and novel protest tactics. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. This concept echoes the media theory of Marshall McLuhan, who suggested that “when faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. In other words, activists keep using the same tactics and methods they have always used in the past, even if these methods are ineffective.
creation of associations and coalitionsĪccording to renowned sociologist Charles Tilly, who invented the term repertoires of contention, not only does this repertoire provide an array of possible tactics, it also limits activists, as “people generally turn to familiar routines and innovate within them, even when in principle some unfamiliar form of action would serve their interests much better.”.Every social activist group has a bag of tricks that they draw upon to use in their protests and actions.
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