It takes a village full of weirdos to start a protest movement.
Bahrain's Shiite majority, inspired by the example of the Egyptian pro-democracy demonstrators who brought down their authoritarian president, Hosni Mubarak, started a protest movement in early February.
Mr. Dobranic did not want his education interrupted over such a sum, so he started a protest against the protests: a Facebook event called "How about we DON'T protest on March 4th," a scheduled day of demonstrations.
In 2003 Martha Burk, chair of the National Council of Women's Organisations, tried to hurry things along when she started a protest in a car park outside the club gates.
But some drivers who leased EV-1's want to keep them and have started a protest Web site, www.cleanup-gm.org.org
Gladwell also notes the importance of strong connections between participants in social movements — the four black freshmen who started a protest outside of Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, were good friends.
Hornes found work as a manager at the fast-food chain Smashburger — an accomplishment that he's certain had nothing to do with his degree — and helped to start a protest movement in which former Corinthian students are refusing to repay their student loans.
In the middle of 2013, two public protests were organised in Croatia, a country in deep economic crisis, with high unemployment and a deep sense of despair: trade unions tried to organise a rally in support of workers' rights, while rightwing nationalists started a protest movement against the use of cyrillic letters on public buildings in cities with a Serb minority.
The attacks on Cartman's technology had other consequences: the girls of the town all dumped their boyfriends for not understanding them, causing Butters to start a protest movement called "Wieners Out" in which the boys walk around with their genitals out to protest against the girls' desire to have them be nice.
Next thing you know if a man didn't like his lunch, he'd start a protest.
