Protest+Movements

=Protest Movements Past and Present...=

__**Topic 4- Authority vs. Opposition... Seeds of Revolution?**__ As we study the "Road to Revolution", a quick look around the world today shows similar episodes abroad and at home. Our study of our own revolutionary past can help us understand revolutions and protests in the present. Reported in class today were popular uprisings in Egypt and Syria being brutally put down by security forces- a homegrown terrorist being apprehended in NYC before he could set off a bomb in opposition to U.S. policy in the Middle East- American police pepper spraying student protestors in the Occupy movement on the West Coast along with the clearing of the tent city inhabited by Occupy Wall Street protestors in NYC leading to subsequent arrests and disruptive demonstrations on the Brooklyn Bridge. Pakistan is moving to prevent texting within that barely democratic country... Where is the balance between freedom and security at present ? How are these current events similar to the events of the American Road to Revolution from 1763-1775? How are they different? What does our own history lead us to predict or expect about the course of events in the world today? What lessons of our past apply to the present and can help us predict the future? __This discussion will run until Tuesday, November 30th...__