After one prominent leader, Alberto Pizango, was granted asylum in Nicaragua this week, others quickly emerged to articulate demands.
On the one hand, they aspire to the freedom promised by democracy; they have the resources and education to mobilize mass protests and articulate demands.
But the plenum as a form of self-organisation in which citizens come together to articulate demands underpinned by protest marches, is now under attack.
That may be no more than lip service, but it also acknowledges a shift in the way that labor unions, advocacy groups and grass-roots organizations are able to articulate demands and grievances.
This can be seen in the way the focus of struggle, post-Mubarak, has shifted from Tahrir Square to the political-economic space of factories as workers organise strikes, articulate demands that are both political and economic, and start to challenge the power of Egypt's "little Mubaraks" – the country's economic elites.
"Adult education continued largely in response to articulate demands from members of the public who already knew they wanted to learn," says Tuckett. "And formidable champions like Richard Hoggart emerged in the 1950s with his hugely influential book The Uses of Literacy".
It could articulate demands upon you that your eye itself couldn't do.
New Internet-based energy communities have emerged and acted as key user-side transition intermediaries that catalyse these activities by qualifying market information, articulating demand and helping citizen users to reconfigure the standard technology to meet the specificities of different local contexts.
The experiences of the First World War, the unsatisfactory Montague-Chelmsford reforms of 1919, and the rise to prominence of M. K. Gandhi in the Indian independence movement marked a change in the attitude of its leaders towards articulating demands for civil rights.
That he went on to articulate a demand that the right to vote be protected for every citizen, and that the criminal-justice system be freed of bias, is alternately noteworthy and depressing.
