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Dec 30, 2020 · The Black Lives Matter movement became an international phenomenon in 2020. As protesters took to the streets in cities across the U.S. in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, a ...
- Ashley Westerman
- A Brief Pause, Then A Surge of Protests
- Familiar Grievances Drove Protests
- Impact of The Coronavirus Pandemic
However, the rapid globalization of the coronavirus in February and March drastically reduced the number and size of protests. Some observers wondered if the global protest wave had met its match. But the lull did not hold: just a few weeks after lockdowns were widely imposed, protests began to reemerge. Data from Carnegie’s Global Protest Trackers...
Many of these new protests centered around the core issues that have driven the global protest wave of recent years, such as corruption, electoral manipulation, and police brutality. Corruption remained a powerful mobilizer in both authoritarian and democratic countries. For example, rampant corruption in Bulgaria has sparked months of demonstratio...
The pandemic was a key protest driver in 2020. It created new protest triggers as public health measures became objects of political contestation, whether in the form of anger over lockdowns, economic displacement, or government mismanagement of the public health crisis. Anti-lockdown protests emerged in at least twenty-six countries, and the perce...
Jun 9, 2020 · June 9, 2020, 9:34 AM PDT. By Savannah Smith, Jiachuan Wu and Joe Murphy. What started in Minneapolis has gone global. At least 40 countries, representing every continent except Antarctica, have...
May 25, 2021 · Protests in Australia, Brazil, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and elsewhere turned Floyd’s name and some of his final words, “I can’t breathe,” into a rallying cry heard around the world.
Jun 6, 2020 · Updated 3:22 PM EDT, Sat June 13, 2020. Link Copied! As the protests continued in the United States for a second week in response to the killing of George Floyd, people around the world began to ...
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Jun 10, 2020 · June 10, 2020. Why the George Floyd protests went global. By Borzou Daragahi. Just days before video emerged of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, footage circulated on social media showing uniformed men in Myanmar manhandling prisoners of war in an area where many were killed.
Jun 8, 2020 · 8 June 2020. By Helier Cheung,BBC News, Washington DC. "Keep pushing": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going. Thousands of Americans are taking to the streets to protest...
