Thanks to organizations like the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the depredations of developers today are noticed, protested and increasingly often blocked.
But such protests increasingly lack focus, reflecting an explosion of political activism.
But for many Greeks, the catastrophe has already happened and protests increasingly involve the well-educated middle class.
And throughout the past year of revolution in Syria – a year characterized by surging protests, increasingly chaotic and horrific violence, spreading lawlessness, and deepening economic deprivation – she has exuded the relentless cheer so common to Assad's defenders.
As the protests increasingly devolve into rock and tear-gas exchanges between students and the police, it's becoming clear that more than education policy is at stake: a nonviolent social revolution in which disaffected, politically savvy youth are trying to overthrow the mores of an older generation, one they feel is still tainted by the legacy of Pinochet.
Alongside these broader protests – increasingly liable to be organised through digital media and difficult to foresee – there will also be specific moments and policies which are likely to bring people out onto the streets.
Because of this, I signed PEN International's open letter to the Russia authorities protesting their increasingly regressive approach to freedom of expression".The tension is not only being felt in the literary world.
His death sent the chilling message that someone will stop at nothing to wreck the case before it comes before a special international tribunal due to be set up in The Hague.The second blow fell two days later, when Shia street gangs in Beirut, Lebanon's capital, ostensibly protesting against increasingly frequent power cuts, rioted on the edge of a neighbouring Christian district.
Their name derived from a combination of "free" and "vegan", freegans embrace practices like dumpster diving as a way of protesting an increasingly wasteful consumerist society and unethical corporations.
Diem's imprisoning and, often, killing of those who expressed opposition to his regime whom he alleged were abetting communist insurgents further alienated the South Vietnamese populace, notably Buddhists, who increasingly protested Diem's discrimination against them.
