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The Power of Student Protests
And the Great Potential of Mass Movements Today.
Over the past number of decades, student protests have proved themselves a force to be reckoned with in terms of socio-political affairs. The energy, enthusiasm and relentlessness of the young, educated and aggrieved acts like a thorn in the side of an establishment whose propaganda works tirelessly to maintain a façade of societal complacency and thus maintain the status quo.
Mass movements of these kinds present the possibility of a dangerous contagion and serve to snap the public out of their mass media-induced reverie that the only debate of any consequence is the red vs blue duopoly.
University campuses, it seems, are often a focal point of youth movements that come to act as a barometer for the level of discontent among the polity at large over policies deemed beyond reproach on the world stage.
Just as in the time of the late, great Martin Luther King, when students defied racial segregation laws to protect the civil liberties of the black community, and in the 70s when they marched against the Vietnam War, today students are once again demonstrating their power in campuses across the US, UK and Europe in rallies and…
