But are we overestimating the power of a lyrical broadside, issued well over half a century ago? "It's very seldom that a song can cut through, but a song can evoke a moment and come to signify a movement," Bragg says, citing as an example protest anthem We Shall Overcome – and, of course, This Land Is Your Land.
In Brazzaville, for example, protest organizer Ngombet said massive youth unemployment was one of the driving factors that pushed protesters into the streets this fall.
One of the performers, for example, protests against the sari her character is forced to wear, calling out lazy representations of Indian culture.
In recent months, for example, protests have broken out repeatedly in Taza, a northeastern town typical of this chronically poor, backwater Morocco.
To cite just one example, protests by watchful people have spared us plans for a huge statue of Catherine of Braganza, the 17th-century queen believed to be Queens County's namesake.
In his book, Mr. Rheingold argues that mobile communications and the Internet enable people to engage in collective action -- for example, protests or demonstrations -- in a way and on a scale that they could not before.
Mr. Schmidt said the issue was "American presence versus American casualties," adding "there are no American people, for example, protesting that the United States has a base in Kuwait" where there are no casualties.
The rallies followed a year of frenetic activity and growing prominence for the movement in the West Bank, which saw activists, for example, protesting against the establishment of a new mission school in Hebron in May, 2007 and organising demonstrations in protest at the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in October, 2006.
Mayor Bertrand Delanoë of Paris, for example, protested the death penalty in the United States by bestowing honorary citizenship on Mumia Abu Jamal, a former Black Panther sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a white Philadelphia policeman, giving the medal to the Marxist activist Angela Davis in a ceremony at City Hall in early October.
Use it as an example of protest poetry with your students and ask them to create their own.
For example, to protest cluster bombs, which kill children who find the bomblets, they staged a bomblet hunt near the last White House Easter Egg Roll.
