The Algerian leadership has been able to address earlier protest movements by increasing public spending aimed at frustrated groups.
Last week in London I got to meet Tom and Naomi from Occupy who pointed out that protest movements have great technical know-how.
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The indigenous community has used the Internet to get its message out to the international community, Siren said, in an echo of protest movements elsewhere.
All this sets the scene for the rise of protest movements.
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Some 57% of respondents in the poll said that voting was the most effective way to change things, against 14% who favoured participating in protest movements.
The first is a revival of protest movements, such as the one led by Beppe Grillo, a comedian and blogger, which are disgruntled with the entire system.
With the recovery efforts in Japan underway and protest movements petering out in the Middle East (with Libya being the big exception), global equities markets have had a chance to recover.
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While some unions have wanted to keep the disputes separate, others have been pushing for a "junction" of the two protest movements under a common theme of the high cost of living.
Protest movements, often involving youth, have burgeoned in the past few years in India amid growing frustration about corruption and poor governance, but they have yet to score a concrete policy victory.
In Germany, for example, disenchantment with what had come to be seen as an excessively cosy system of bargaining between elite groups helped to spark an explosion of protest movements in the 1980s.
It allowed for protest, and movements, and the dissemination of new ideas that would repeatedly, decade after decade, change the world -- a constant forward movement that continues to this day.
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In many other countries, too, there is a sense that politics has mutated since the 1960s from an activity organised largely around parties to one organised around specialised interest groups on the one hand (such as America's gun lobby) and broader protest and social movements on the other (such as the women's movement, environmentalism and consumerism).
Although this could try the patience of Bolivia's so-called social movements, some protest leaders may have other matters on their mind.
Pro-Telangana activists said Monday's strike was to protest against police restrictions on their movements.
Alex Pereira retraced the final movements of Mr Menezes, his cousin, in an emotional protest.
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