Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment issue offered a clear-cut moral issue along with a clear-cut populist strategy. Dramatic campus protest generated media interest and catapulted the issue into the national consciousness...
HOWEVER apartheid has not died, although the movement has. This is not because activists got bored and moved on to the next sexy issue, but rather because campus protest became ineffective. Once some universities and corporations divested and pulled out, campus protests understandably cooled and then faded from the news. Unfortunately, the old media-grabbing tactics had failed to produce the broad-based student support that would have been necessary to perpetuate a campus movement in the absence of TV cameras...
...hard to understand how protesters of purportedly deep moral conviction could so quickly drop their beliefs. That when one vital branch of protest gets chilly, they can so quickly fly to another...
...students were involved in the brief protest, DiIorio said, adding that he "could not see connection...
...demonstration, organized by a number of local social activist organizations, will demand increased government aid to the poor in the form of jobs, housing, health care, child care and welfare rights. The protest day, known as National Justice for All, will also call on presidential candidates to give more attention to poverty as a political issue...