Nominate the most important protest..

[aurora green]

The bbc politics programme is asking people to nominate their top ten political protests
They suggest; Ghandis salt march of 1930,
Tiananmen Square stand-off: 1989,
the poll tax riot, and Rosa Parks getting on that bus.

What would you add to that list?

 

[kakuma]

the firky is a puff protest

 

[tobyjug]

The bbc politics programme is asking people to nominate their top ten political protests
They suggest; Ghandis salt march of 1930,
Tiananmen Square stand-off: 1989,
the poll tax riot, and Rosa Parks getting on that bus.

What would you add to that list?

I would not add anything to be honest, for the most bang for the buck Rosa Parks is difficult to beat.

 

[boskysquelch]

*softly pushes Nmingebwoi aside....responds to I reckon this was my politikal awakening event.... Blair Peach .

 

[JHE]

There have been many popular protests over the years in which ordinary people have challenged governments and changed the course of history.

Do popular revolutions count as protests here? If they don't, why not?

If they do, then the American and French revolutions should obviously be on the list - and the Russian and Chinese revolutions too. Plus... <insert umpteen revolutions & revolts>

The most significant of those? The French one?

 

[belboid]

a - It's twentieth century protests. (ie stuff they have film of)

b - if you think a revolution is the same as a protest, even more of your brain had fallen out than I'd have guessed.

 

[Leica]

Why does everything have to be turned into a top ten...

 

[aurora green]

I think I'd definately put the WTO protests in Seattle on my list.
battle of Seattle and more here

 

[Groucho]

I would think that Emily Davison will be added.

Let's hope that bat man and the fox hunters as well don't mobilise their constituencies...

 

[zenie]

What about the suffragette movement ?

Emily Pankhurst was doing it for half of the population not just a race or country.

What she started soon followed all over the world

 

[citydreams]

The suffragettes has to beat the Womens Institute slow hand clap given to Tony Blair

 

[citydreams]

Wouldn't the most important protest in our recent times be the 1,000,000 strong No War march?

 

[Pickman's model]

Wouldn't the most important protest in our recent times be the 1,000,000 strong No War march?

& what did it achieve?

 

[Pickman's model]

What about the suffragette movement ?

Emily Pankhurst was doing it for half of the population not just a race or country.

What she started soon followed all over the world

er...

new zealand gave women the vote on 19 sept 1893.

 

[zenie]

er...

new zealand gave women the vote on 19 sept 1893.

Damm

 

[Pickman's model]

Damm

& if memory serves, the first meeting to demand the vote for women was in the united states around the time of their civil war - the yankee suffrage movement grew out of the movement to abolish slavery.

 

[citydreams]

& what did it achieve?

That's the point though isn't it? I think this should be in the top ten precisely because it achieved nothing. Though it could be argued that as an indirect consequence it produced the greatest increase in voter apathy seen this century.

 

[Pickman's model]

That's the point though isn't it? I think this should be in the top ten precisely because it achieved nothing. Though it could be argued that as an indirect consequence it produced the greatest increase in voter apathy seen this century.

didn't that occur between 1997 and 2001, ie before the demonstration to which you refer?

 

[belboid]

Emily Pankhurst was doing it for half of the population not just a race or country.

tosh. Emmeline "For King, For Country, for Freedom" Pankhurst? The Conservative Party candidate?

Now if you'd said Sylvia.......or Emily Davison.......but not EP, oh no!

 

[Pickman's model]

That's the point though isn't it? I think this should be in the top ten precisely because it achieved nothing. Though it could be argued that as an indirect consequence it produced the greatest increase in voter apathy seen this century.

uk general election turnout
1997 - 71%
2001 - 59.3%
2005 - 61.3%

please could you explain where this increase in voter apathy post-feb. 2003 occurred?

 

[butchersapron]

tosh. Emmeline "For King, For Country, for Freedom" Pankhurst? The Conservative Party candidate?

Now if you'd said Sylvia.......or Emily Davison.......but not EP, oh no!

Sign up to the army boys, throw your life away for the King.

 

[tobyjug]

Wouldn't the most important protest in our recent times be the 1,000,000 strong No War march?

Did it achieve anything?

 

[Pickman's model]

Did it achieve anything?

little sir echo!

 

[citydreams]

uk general election turnout
1997 - 71%
2001 - 59.3%
2005 - 61.3%

please could you explain where this increase in voter apathy post-feb. 2003 occurred?

Tony Blair’s party won the last election with little over 20% of the registered British electorate. New Labour was delivered five more years of near-absolute power by an even smaller percentage of votes than at the previous election in 2001. If this trend continues, 2009 or 2010 could witness a third triumph of what has become the dominant force in British politics, the non-voting party (39.7% in this election), and a government resting upon less than a fifth of the public’s support.

 

[Pickman's model]

Tony Blair’s party won the last election with little over 20% of the registered British electorate. New Labour was delivered five more years of near-absolute power by an even smaller percentage of votes than at the previous election in 2001. If this trend continues, 2009 or 2010 could witness a third triumph of what has become the dominant force in British politics, the non-voting party (39.7% in this election), and a government resting upon less than a fifth of the public’s support.

that's considerably different from the increase in voter apathy you claimed to see.

i don't believe there are 'trends' in general elections, as they occur so far apart that they are just snapshots of public opinion. you may as well use the data from the national lottery to pick your numbers for wednesday - just as meaningfull.

 

[citydreams]

that's considerably different from the increase in voter apathy you claimed to see..

give it time. Besides which you're arguing a moot point. I would put the Stop The War demo on my list precisely because it achieved nothing.

Where's your list?

 

[Pickman's model]

cable street
poll tax rebellion
may '68 in paris

which is two more than you've suggested

 

[citydreams]

cable street
poll tax rebellion
may '68 in paris

which is two more than you've suggested

oh, are we getting into point scoring already? that didn't take you long.

I take it you haven't got a top ten list then?

 

[Pickman's model]

oh, are we getting into point scoring already? that didn't take you long.

have you a list to share with us?

 

[citydreams]

no.