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Protest works!
PHILIP GOUREVITCH: Yes — sometimes non-violent protest works, and sometimes it doesn't.
If you are talking to dedicated green liberals this protest works fine.
Manuel Ocampo, a Filipino artist working in Berkeley, Cal., paints large primitive-style tableaux that, on closer inspection, are anticolonialist protest works.
On the day of Mussolini's proclamation, Dallapiccola began work on his Canti di Prigionia (Songs of Imprisonment) - the first in a series of "protest" works.
As so many ACT UP actions showed, and as we have seen again this week at Standing Rock, sustained, collaborative protest works — though only if the people targeted by such protests are endowed with the capacity to feel shame.
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The protesters, with a group called Our Walmart, stormed the fireside chat to protest working conditions at Walmart and the plight of about 80 workers who were fired by the retail chain.
The protest worked.
The violent protest worked wonders.
By now I understood how the protest worked.
Why did civil-rights protest work where recent activism struggles?
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