'Save our Solsbury!': the anatomy of an anti-roads protest

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There were a number of protests against road building projects in the United Kingdom during the mid 1990s, and the debate has involved a range of environmental issues, as is shown by one example. This example is the protest over a project near Bath, England, which has given rise to debates on risk, community defense, and ecology. Social movement theory can be used to analyze the protest and this shows how there is a debate within the protest movement. Some protesters have specific aims in relation to a particular road, and could be understood in terms of Resource Mobilization. Others are more generally anti-car, and could be seen as part of a New Social Movement.

Research, Road construction, Environmental aspects, Social movements, Environmental movement, Environmentalism

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Sweden: krona crisis stalls 'New Start.'

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Carl Bildt won election in Sep 1991 as Sweden's first conservative Prime Minister in 60 years. He planned to put the economy back on a positive footing, to seek membership in the EC for Sweden, to modify Sweden's welfare state and to pursue a foreign policy of a more European nature. After a crisis involving the krona leading finally to the currency's devaluation in late 1992, public confidence in Bildt seemed to erode, the economy failed to improve and there were calls for a coalition government. The Swedish welfare state may yet survive.

Sweden

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The Crisis 1992 women of courage: Katherine Dunham: high priestess of protest

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Afro-American choreographer Katherine Dunham was one of the first citizens who vehemently criticized Pres George Bush's immigration policy which permits the forced return of Haitian refugees to their country. Although afflicted with chronic arthritis, she managed to go on her 47-day hunger strike to show her protest tothe administration's policy. Such courageous feat has won the respect of both Pres Bush and Pres Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Pres Bush promised to reconsider hisdecision. For Dunham, the struggle shall continue.

Interview, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, African American women, Dunham, Katherine

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