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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... occurred both before and after COINTELPRO was instituted . Some political commentators assert that the abuses of the COINTELPRO era were curbed by post - COINTELPRO changes in the law . I look at a number of cases that occurred ...
... occurred both before and after COINTELPRO was instituted . Some political commentators assert that the abuses of the COINTELPRO era were curbed by post - COINTELPRO changes in the law . I look at a number of cases that occurred ...
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... occurred in terms of the rea- sons for the surveillance of Martin Luther King , Jr. According to Garrow ( 1981 , 172 ) , in the fall of 1965 , the objective of surveillance shifted from a desire to discredit King to “ a desire to know ...
... occurred in terms of the rea- sons for the surveillance of Martin Luther King , Jr. According to Garrow ( 1981 , 172 ) , in the fall of 1965 , the objective of surveillance shifted from a desire to discredit King to “ a desire to know ...
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... occurred on 18 December 1968. This case - which was nicknamed " the Tennis Court Murder " as it occurred on a tennis court - was the only case in which major charges against Pratt would not end in acquittal . Although Pratt was at a BPP ...
... occurred on 18 December 1968. This case - which was nicknamed " the Tennis Court Murder " as it occurred on a tennis court - was the only case in which major charges against Pratt would not end in acquittal . Although Pratt was at a BPP ...
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