Want to know more about the long history of protest movements? check out these links:

[dixiegrrrrl]

Feel free to share your own sites/resources so we can all learn more.


Good site for a general guide and suggestions to learn more is here:
http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/history498/index.htm
(warning, the site is a god awful color of pink)

And we did not invent university walk outs and sit ins:

"Student organizing was one of the American Left's most successful areas of political activity during the Great Depression. Under the leadership of Communist and Socialist undergraduates, the campus activists of the 1930s built the first mass student protest movement in American history. During its peak years, from spring 1936 to spring 1939, the movement mobilized at least 500,000 collegians (about half of the American student body) in annual one-hour strikes against war. The movement also organized students on behalf of an extensive reform agenda, which included federal aid to education, government job programs for youth, abolition of the compulsory Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), academic freedom, racial equality, and collective bargaining rights."
from:
Encyclopedia of the American Left
which I found on:
Student Activism in the 1930s
http://newdeal.feri.org/students/move.htm

Here, look at this: 1930's unemployment protest in New Zealand ( notice the hats and suits)

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. 1930's labor rebellion against British colonies in the Caribbean, too!

http://libcom.org/library/labour-rebellions-1930s-british-caribbean-region-colonies-richard-hart

[malaise]

2. Here's a good read on the 1938 protests in Jamaica

http://www.marxists.org/archive/padmore/1938/unrest-jamaica.htm
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To the critical observer it would seem that the Empire is in actual truth “going.” Hardly a day passes without the report of some disturbance, some riot, some protest against imperial rule in the colonies. It is not strange, therefore, that just at the time when Lord Elgin, President of the newly opened Empire Exhibition at Glasgow, was informing their Imperial Majesties what a glorious contribution to the peace and prosperity of the peoples of the Empire this Exhibition represents, the working masses of the West Indian Island of Jamaica were being shot and bayoneted for demanding a betterment of their miserable conditions.

The events giving rise to the disturbance climaxed a deep-seated unrest of long duration. An imminent explosion was prophesied by a leader of the workers, Alex Bustamente, in the Manchester Guardian of April 8th, unless immediate remedial steps were taken. Even to the uninitiated it must be obvious that conditions are intolerable when hundreds of ragged men, women and children clamour for admittance to prison in order to obtain food, as happened a short while ago in Kingston, the capital.

Used as we have now become to descriptions of the manner in which great masses of people within the Empire live, even a brief review of the conditions of the Jamaican workers comes as something of a shock. Jamaica is entirely agrarian, and its economy is absolutely dependent upon the export of bananas, coffee, ground nuts, sugar and its by-product rum, pineapples and other tropical fruits. Its population density is heavier than in many European countries, about 290 to the square mile. (England has 269.) Of the total population of 1,138,558, the majority are Negroes, descendants of African slaves. There is a large half-caste population and a number of Chinese and Indians. But the 20,000 whites are the real masters of the colony. They and the absentee landlords form the plantocracy. Many of the local-born Europeans are also engaged in trade. They and their agents dominate the commercial and political life of the country.

Of the colony’s 4,450 square miles, about 140,000 acres of land is divided into peasant cultivation (chiefly bananas), but large scale agriculture predominates. The large proprietors own 837,000 acres, which are divided into plantations. This unequal division has created an intense land hunger among the peasants, and the demand has in recent years driven rents from 20s. to 34s. a year for an acre. The satisfaction of their land needs is obstructed by the planters, who fear labour shortage and higher wage demands.

Cruisers and armed forces failed to intimidate the workers. Dock labourers in Kingston returned to work only after a compromise agreement was made with the employers granting them an extra 2d. an hour. Workers’ pressure forced the release of Bustamante the moneylender and his aid, St. William Grant. Throughout the rest of the island there is a state almost of insurrection. So desperate are the workers and peasants that bullets and threats cannot deter them from struggling violently for an improvement in their conditions. The Colonial Office stated quite plainly that a readjustment of wages could not be made until the submission of the report by the Commission now making its investigation of the island. But it can meanwhile set military to put down “mob rule” and create further killings and woundings.

The workers of Jamaica want to know why the Government can intervene always only on one side – that of the capitalists. After over three hundred years of “democratic” British rule, this is the situation in Jamaica today. Deprived of the elementary rights of trade union organization, parliamentary representation, freedom of speech and Press, the Jamaican toilers are unable to improve their conditions by peaceful means. They appeal to the workers of Britain, therefore, to support them in their desperate fight to obtain, besides their immediate demands, these fundamental democratic rights. British workers must insistently press their leaders, both in the Labour Party and the trade unions to urge the granting of these legitimate demands to the masses of Jamaica; they must spur their leaders to action in order to secure within the colonial sections of the Empire that democracy about which they are so concerned in Europe. This is the least that workers of Britain can do to demonstrate their solidarity with these colonial workers.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. wow...thank you for that information, malaise!

Being an ancient person, I keep forgetting that there are lots of people who do not know the history of labor, protests, progressive, leftist, populist movements in the last 100 or so years.
I keep forgetting that all this history is not being taught in schools and colleges anymore.

If I were able to be at any of the Occupy places, I would volunteer to help teach history, to educate, to identify resources.

[malaise]

7. The Caribbean riots actually started in Trinidad

with the dock workers- TT had a larger working class than most of the region because of oil but the riots spread across the region leading to the Moyne Commission and a plethora of reforms which turned out to be insignificant as the economies remained in the hands of foreign corporations.

The Labour Movement emerged out of the struggle as did political parties.

I think it's important to observe geo-politics at that time because there were many parallels.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

9. You led me to the thought that one consequence of globalization

is a now universal concept of global protest.

[bemildred]

3. K. nt

[defendandprotect]

4. Important subject -- thank you --

back later to actually read and pick up links!

:hi:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Politicians don't lead movements they, hopefully, follow them. K&R

[TBF]

8. Cool - thanks!

:hi:

[PETRUS]

10. Very helpful. K&R nt