Revolution and Response – This is the second part of a four part series exploring England’s Education System.
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Spectacle and Nonviolent Struggles During the Vietnam War
It’s the late 1960s. A small, boxy television flickers on in the den just in time to catch the beginning of the nightly news. Like many nights before– and many to come– images of death and destruction from some far off communist country in Asia light up the room.
Amazigh Nonviolence: Language, Land, and Blood
The indigenous Amazigh people of North Africa have preserved their language and culture through centuries of pressure to assimilate. They fight for linguistic rights and land rights across the region known as Tamazgha.
Addiopizzo: Sicily’s Anti-Mafia Movement, Past and Present
The anti-mafia movement is often associated with the actions of the Italian police and criminal justice system against the mafia, but grassroots approaches to anti-mafia work have an even longer history. The Addiopizzo movement is the most recent in a long legacy of Sicilians organizing against the mafia.
Civil Protest in Northern Ireland
Since the partition of Ireland in December of 1920, Northern Ireland has been characterized as a deeply polarized society…By the 1960s, a loose network, activists, groups, and organizations (known as the CRM network) began to challenge the discriminatory practices.
Resurrecting King and Resurrection City: Opposing Memories of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and a Forgotten Moment in His Legacy
Every year, come the third Monday of January, Americans flip through news channels reflecting on the legacy of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Individuals active on social media—depending on the political affiliations of their peers—view a long series of posts listing the bastardization of King’s memory on both sides of the aisle.
Investigating the Meaning and Application of Civil Disobedience Through Thoreau, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Disclaimer: The following blog post is not a reflection of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s opinion on the below topics. By Evie Erickson I mean to discuss the practice of civil disobedience and its significance using the …
Bobby Sands and the 1981 Hunger Strike
Bobby Sands was an incredibly multifaceted figure in modern Irish history. He was a writer and poet, a member of Parliament, and a volunteer to the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
The Young Lords in El Barrio: Latino Revolutionaries of the Civil Rights Era
In the early 1960s, El Barrio, Manhattan’s Spanish Harlem, was teeming with life. Home to a large Puerto Rican and Latin American community after mass migrations post-World War II to New York City, El Barrio has been a multicultural hub since the early 20th century. Yet, even with U.S. citizenship, migrants have been treated as foreigners and not Americans, their community deemed second-class citizens, effectively invisible to the rest of the city.
News Flush: O’Hare Restrooms Occupied in the Greatest Protest That Never Happened
The Woodlawn Organization (TWO) was born in 1960 out of squalor and neglect. Located on the southern outskirts of the University of Chicago: Hyde Park, the neighborhood of Woodlawn had been pulverized by the pervasive “racial discrimination, metropolitan residential segregation, and unequal schooling”—not to mention collapse of industrial employment—that defined the 1950s.