Environmental groups have strongly protested new resource projects, particularly the highly polluting tar-sands oil.
Yes, Topacio, a 16-year-old youth organizer, poet, and musician was murdered a few weeks ago protesting Tahoe Resource's Escobal Project.
The same day, a protest over public resources in the indigenous town of San Juan Chamula in Chiapas ended with the death of Mayor Domingo López González and four others, including his second in command.
Such a trove might have been considered a treasure before the Tiananmen Square protests; afterward, such resources became sources of angst.
In North Dakota, a rural state with a large energy industry where gatherings of such magnitude were unprecedented, the protests exhausted police resources and brought unwelcome scrutiny.
Second, the rentier state can use its rich rents to buy off citizens by providing them with benefits without a high level of taxation, making social mobilization and protest against the resource economy and government policy less likely to occur (Paler 2013).
Robert Rabin, an anti-Navy protest leader, said opponents' resources had been drained by the referendum but promised more civil disobedience.
The past few years have been marked by a vociferous debate over who should fund science, with incensed researchers taking to the streets to protest over scarcity of resources.
Coercive measures were generally the direct use of police, army, and other armed forces, while channeling took the form of various indirect restrictions on the methods, time, and resources of protest.
First, unlike previous mobilizations, the protests did not begin in Khartoum where the regime has spent considerable resources to protest-proof the capital region.
Last summer Cuadrilla Resources faced protests in the Sussex village of Balcombe, and protesters are currently camped outside a drilling pad at Barton Moss in Salford where Igas plans to drill an exploratory well.
