Posts tagged ‘protests’
The Right To Protest
by Nina Power / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012)
As Quebec erupts over plans to increase tuition fees by the equivalent of £200, and twelve people (including Professor Joshua Clover) who protested against a campus bank at University of California–Davis begin a trial that could see them imprisoned for eleven years and fined $1 million each, what of the scores of people arrested during [...]
#spanishrevolution
by Yaiza Maria Hernandez Velazquez / RP 168 (Jul/Aug 2011)
You might have read this May that there were protests in Spain. This is hardly earth-shattering news. Social unrest in the countries so endearingly named the PIGS has been rife since the European Union (EU) departed from its early policy of public spending its way out of the crisis, to offer them a grim choice [...]
Against Education Cuts
by Nina Power, Escalate and Emily Clifton / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011)
Reports from the protests by those campaigning against the cuts to educations, including Nina Power on the centrality of women.
The global movement
Seattle, ten years on
by Rodrigo Nunes / RP 159 (Jan/Feb 2010)
On the tenth anniversary of the 1999 protests against the WTO in Seattle, Rodrigo Nunes considers the legacy of the so-called “global movement” and argues it was only ever a global moment.
The Right To Protest
by Nina Power / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012)As Quebec erupts over plans to increase tuition fees by the equivalent of £200, and twelve people (including Professor Joshua Clover) who protested against a campus bank at University of California–Davis begin a trial that could see them imprisoned for eleven years and fined $1 million each, what of the scores of people arrested during [...]
#spanishrevolution
by Yaiza Maria Hernandez Velazquez / RP 168 (Jul/Aug 2011)You might have read this May that there were protests in Spain. This is hardly earth-shattering news. Social unrest in the countries so endearingly named the PIGS has been rife since the European Union (EU) departed from its early policy of public spending its way out of the crisis, to offer them a grim choice [...]
Against Education Cuts
by Nina Power, Escalate and Emily Clifton / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011)Reports from the protests by those campaigning against the cuts to educations, including Nina Power on the centrality of women.
The global movement
Seattle, ten years on
by Rodrigo Nunes / RP 159 (Jan/Feb 2010)
On the tenth anniversary of the 1999 protests against the WTO in Seattle, Rodrigo Nunes considers the legacy of the so-called “global movement” and argues it was only ever a global moment.
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