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In media, entertainment, sports, and fashion, a worker-led uprising has brought pent-up frustrations and injustices to the fore.
NDAs bear blame for some of the worst corporate cover-ups. How that should change | jakemeth | September 18, 2020 | FortuneIn fact, the autopsies and commissions investigating these uprisings describe a direct relationship between police violence and property destruction.
Kenosha’s looting is a symptom of a decrepit democracy | Aaron Ross Coleman | September 4, 2020 | VoxThey found it a very useful tool to stop uprisings during the colonial era.
Podcast: How a 135-year-old law lets India shutdown the internet | Anthony Green | September 2, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewMaybe a series of riots has a different effect than a single uprising.
Violent protests against police brutality in the ’60s and ’90s changed public opinion | German Lopez | August 28, 2020 | VoxThe British created the law and found it a useful tool for stopping uprisings during the colonial era.
How India became the world’s leader in internet shutdowns | Katie McLean | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
He was one of few outspoken activists in Syria prior to the uprising that took a place in March of 2011.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015 | Movements.Org | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is no wonder that headlines around the world are talking about a new, third intifada, or Palestinians uprising.
Intifada 3.0: Growing Unrest and a Plot to Kill an Israeli Minister | Creede Newton | November 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd it seems like another Intifada, or Palestinian uprising, might be on the way.
A New Intifada? Israel’s Arab Citizen Uprising Spreads | Creede Newton | November 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany secular activists from the urban areas of Damascus or Aleppo withdrew long ago, sickened by what the uprising was becoming.
Who Are These ‘Moderate’ Syrians Obama Wants to Pit Against ISIS? | Jamie Dettmer | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYeah, this sounds like a perfect recipe for violent uprising against Joan Rivers.
What Joan Rivers Said She Would Do If She Were Dictator of America | Asawin Suebsaeng | September 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhy, she got befuddled in reciting something about an Indian uprising that came in our American History hour.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonNot since the uprising of the Mole-men, those creatures who had spewed forth from the inner world, had the fiery crystal called!
Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | VariousThere was nothing within the confines of Italy so much dreaded as an uprising of the slaves.
The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone JohnstonA less egoistic man would have seen that a national uprising was imminent.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan SloaneHe might have been swamped by an uprising of the whole convention, but strange to say the convention was intent upon hearing him.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson
British Dictionary definitions for uprising
/ (ˈʌpˌraɪzɪŋ, ʌpˈraɪzɪŋ) /
a revolt or rebellion
archaic an ascent
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