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Zapatistas
Grievances/Goals:
Indigenous control over their local resources, especially land – land reparations. Autonomy from Mexican Government. Against economic globalization/Neoliberalism/NAFTA/ GM food. -
Seattle WTO Protest
Ended Dec. 2, 1999
Grievances/goals:
Environment and the exploitation of child labor and workers in the Third World. Growing social inequality and hostility to the domination of the transnational corporate giants over working people, not just in America but all over the world. -
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Seattle WTO Protests
Grievances/goals:
Environment and the exploitation of child labor and workers in the Third World. Growing social inequality and hostility to the domination of the transnational corporate giants over working people, not just in America but all over the world. -
Genoa G8 Protests
Grievances/goals:
They believed that G8 summits are non-legitimate attempts by eight of the world's most powerful governments to set the rules for the planet at large. Opposed to capitalist globalization. -
Global Anti- Iraq War Protest
Grievances/Goals:
Protesting against the impending war in Iraq. -
Toronto G20 Protests
Grievances/goals:
protesting poverty, promoting gay rights, protesting capitalism, promoting indigenous rights, protesting inequality, corporatism. -
UK Student Movement
Ongoing.
Opposed to tuition increases. -
The Arab Spring
Ongoing.
Grievances/Goals:
Authoritarianism, Demographic structural factors, Political corruption, Human rights violations, Inflation, Kleptocracy, Sectarianism, Unemployment, Self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi. Want democracy, free elections, human rights, regime change. -
Chilean Student Movement/Education Conflict
Ongoing.
Grievances/goals:
The end of the Chilean school voucher system, its replacement by a public education system managed by the state. The end of for-profit education. Changes to tax code to better finance education. -
Indignados in Spain
Grievances/goals:
Unemployment, economic conditions, welfare cuts, political corruption, particracy, unrepresentative bipartidism, democratic deficit. Government austerity measures, banks, politicians, economic recession, and the highest unemployment in the Eurozone. Want Direct democracy, reduce the influence of economic powers in politics. -
Occupy Movement
Ongoing
Grievances/goals:
Corporate power and influence, inequality, environment, capitalism, financial crisis, political corruption. -
Quebec Student Movement (Casseroles)
Came to a sort of close in September, but sentiment still ongoing.
Goals:
Tuition Freeze, Free education. -
Idle No More
Grievances/Goals:
In response to the Harper government's introduction of Bill C-45. A grassroots movement for Indigenous sovereignty, Indigenous rights and respect for the treaties. Goals include stopping Environmental degradation, and Economic and social inequality.
