The present protests, supported from overseas, will bring only more suffering.
One is that the present protests in Hong Kong offer so many echoes of those in 1989.
A homemade video of September's anti-war rallies in Washington alternates between color and black-and-white, suggesting past and present protests; the screen is framed in funky tape and cardboard.
Today, senior Greenpeace officials will present a protest letter to Taro Aso, the Japanese prime minister, before protesting in front of parliament.
Many were eager to speak. Lee Whitson, of St Louis, said he was present to protest "injustice going on in Ferguson and other cities".
Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, voted "present" to protest what he said was the unwillingness of the Department of Justice to provide information about accusations of unusually harsh interrogations at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Tea Party favorite, said Republicans in the House should call up the Senate-passed bill extending the middle-class tax cuts, then vote "present" in protest, allowing Democrats to "own" the tax code.
At present the protest is not causing any disruption for people working in the building".
About 30 campaigners were present to protest against new student building developments.
Thirdly, we present the protest data for seven countries (Austria, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland) between 1975 and 2005.
