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A carregar... What do we want! : the story of protest in Australiapor Clive Hamilton
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In What Do We Want! Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern Australia. He includes dedicated chapters on the peace movement, women's liberation, Indigenous rights, gay rights and the environmental movement, and examines how these movements have confronted the ugliness in Australian society and caused epoch defining shifts in social attitudes. He describes protests with scores of thousands marching or sitting down in the streets of capital cities; colourful camps of a handful of protesters in Australia's forests, singing at bulldozers and blocking paths; acts of bravery by individuals using technology to disrupt stock markets or coming out on television; as well as vigils, leafleting, street theatre, occupations and myriad other creative forms of protest. Hamilton shows that progress occurs because a few individuals begin to demand change. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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… writing this book has been not only a fascinating authorial task but also a wistful return to an early phase of my life. From 1970, while in my second last year of high school, I was a foot soldier in several of the protest movements here described. […] For many of the young people caught up in those heady times, the protests defined us. We felt we were making the world a better place, and we were. Although a few moved into politics and non-government organisations, most went on to careers, families and mortgages. But so deep was the imprint of those times that we always live a little in their shadow. (p.viii)
The book begins with a chapter about the protests to end conscription and the Vietnam War. ‘End the War’ starts with the 1965 May Day procession where the Union of Australian Women pioneered a movement that would bring capital city streets to a standstill but Like the Eureka Youth League, who held the first protest against the Vietnam War in 1963, they had a long way to go before the movement really took off. Ultimately it became a ‘broad church’, including pacifists and people who objected only to the Vietnam War; communists and liberals; people who were against conscription under any circumstances and those who opposed it only for the Vietnam War, religious people and the iconic mothers who led Save Our Sons. It feels empowering to read this chapter, but there’s a sobering reminder that moratorium-style protests don’t have the impact that they once did.
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