The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social MovementsRoutledge, 2006 - 375 pages Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement. |
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Page 138
... considered returning to Nova Scotia and suspending her work with AIM , thereby depriving the group of one of its most active , courageous , and dedicated members ( Matthiessen 1984 , 146 ) . Soon after Peltier's confrontation of Aquash ...
... considered returning to Nova Scotia and suspending her work with AIM , thereby depriving the group of one of its most active , courageous , and dedicated members ( Matthiessen 1984 , 146 ) . Soon after Peltier's confrontation of Aquash ...
Page 156
... considered in hopes that it will assist in the continuance of the rift between the BPP and US . " It also said : " Efforts being made to determine how this situation can be capitalized upon for the benefit of the Counterintelligence ...
... considered in hopes that it will assist in the continuance of the rift between the BPP and US . " It also said : " Efforts being made to determine how this situation can be capitalized upon for the benefit of the Counterintelligence ...
Page 272
... considered collec- tively as different from , and as inferior to , their own group . Thus one misses the key to the problem usually discussed under headings such as ' social prejudice , ' if one looks for it solely in the personality ...
... considered collec- tively as different from , and as inferior to , their own group . Thus one misses the key to the problem usually discussed under headings such as ' social prejudice , ' if one looks for it solely in the personality ...
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Action Mode activity actors agent provocateur American approach asserts Badjacketing Bi-level Demonization black bag jobs Black Panther Party Black Propaganda Bureau bystander publics Ceplair and Englund Chapter Church Committee Churchill and Vander COINTELPRO collective action Communist Communist Party Court Direct Violence dissident citizens dissident social movements Divisive Disruption Donner Doug McAdam Durham dynamic effect engage example explore FBI's frame Fred Hampton Global Global Justice Movement Hampton Harassment Arrests Hollywood Hollywood Ten Hoover HUAC individual infiltration interaction internal Intimidation journalists King leaders mass media McAdam McCarthy Mechanisms of Suppression ment mobilization Modes of Suppression Office organizations police political opportunity potential Pratt process of demobilization protesters raid relations repression Resource Depletion SCLC Seattle Senate III 1976 social mechanisms social movements social-movement Soviet specific Stigmatization story surveillance tactics Tarrow Tilly tion United Vander Wall 1990 Vander Wall 2002 Washington Post York