Sentence examples for contemporary protests from inspiring English sources

It is also a site that should offer inspiration for, and links to, contemporary protests.

In 2011, he marched with the Occupy movement, and a few days later commented on the similarities between contemporary protests and the social activism of the sixties.

The contemporary protests against greed echo an old concern that goes back not just to the 1980s dubbed by some the Era of Greed or to the writings of Marx, who described capitalism as a form of selfish exploitation.

More contemporary protests in Hungary have led to genuine political change in the recent past.

At the same time, despite the excitement of seeing militants marching in the cities, leftist activist networks are buzzing with the painful realization that contemporary protest is broken.

It covered the history of contemporary protest art in China, starting with Wang Keping's "Silence" sculpture from the seminal Xing Xing exhibition of 1979, which led to demonstrations over freedom of expression, three years after the end of the Cultural Revolution.

When the author and economist Umair Haque tried to find a common element between the student protests, the Arab spring, the Occupy movement and other contemporary protest movements, he suggested a general sense of a loss of agency, the shared observation of being "systematically, structurally denied the opportunity to prosper".

Best of all was this molten medley of two contemporary protest songs, Neil Young's Ohio and Jimi Hendrix's Machine Gun, which married Ron's wracked, mournful gospel moan to Ernie's fiery guitar excursions, the younger Isley proving himself a worthy successor to the recently deceased Hendrix.

These days, when people talk about the lack of a musical center in contemporary protest movements, it's usually framed as a subtle critique of modern artists, who tend to sing boldly of self-empowerment and self-growth, but rarely of collective betterment.

Even in his 90s, one of the godfathers of contemporary protest music was still working the crowd at an Occupy movement rally in New York City while turning We Shall Overcome into one big, righteous sing-along. .

He chose the title from Ein Kind unserer Zeit, a contemporary protest novel by the Austro-Hungarian writer, Ödön von Horváth.