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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... stories covering A16 events in Washington , DC . For example , CNN anchor Andria Hall ( 2000 ) kicked off a story about protests of the IMF and World Bank by noting , " It has been a very busy evening for Washington D.C. Police , and it ...
... stories covering A16 events in Washington , DC . For example , CNN anchor Andria Hall ( 2000 ) kicked off a story about protests of the IMF and World Bank by noting , " It has been a very busy evening for Washington D.C. Police , and it ...
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... story with the line , “ A guerrilla army of anti - trade protesters took control of downtown Seattle today , forcing the delay of the opening of a global meeting of the World Trade Organization " ( Burgess and Pearlstein 1999a ) . A few ...
... story with the line , “ A guerrilla army of anti - trade protesters took control of downtown Seattle today , forcing the delay of the opening of a global meeting of the World Trade Organization " ( Burgess and Pearlstein 1999a ) . A few ...
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... story on the front page Sunday . It put it halfway down the front page of the Metro section , with a couple of ho- hum photographs that captured the protest's fringe elements . A photo of a larger crowd of demonstrators ran in the lower ...
... story on the front page Sunday . It put it halfway down the front page of the Metro section , with a couple of ho- hum photographs that captured the protest's fringe elements . A photo of a larger crowd of demonstrators ran in the lower ...
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