About 4000 members of the power union voted to strike, in a move to increase their wages that were set by the Duquesne Light Company. The city’s power supply was reduced to 45 per cent when Duquesne Light Company employees failed to report for work. The Union President George Mueller was sentenced to one year in jail because he inspired the strike. The labor leaders of Pittsburgh supported Mueller’s. George Mueller’s arrest caused eight thousand steel and electrical workers in the Pittsburgh district to strike in protest.
Rioters began violence at the famous corner of Florence and Normandie where they threw beer cans at surrounding cars and attacked any passing people. Around the same time, protesters gathered and rallied around news stations like KTLA. Daryl Gates, the chief of the LAPD, originally claimed the police had the issue under control, but it progressed into the declaration of an official "State of Emergency." Two thousand National Guard troops are deployed to popular spots to prevent violence. Later that day, Gates announced that there were four thousand more National Guard members requested and intended to be deployed the next day.
Following the violence, the government carried out mass arrests of demonstrators and suppressed their supporters and other protests around China. They also banned foreign journalists from the country to strictly control the Chinese Communist Party in the incident report of the news. Party members have publicly expressed sympathy. Violent suppression of Tiananmen Square protest caused widespread
My served in the Vietnam War for two years, 1969-1970; when he was eighteen years old. The Vietnam War convinced the French that they could no longer maintain their Indochinese colonies and Paris quickly sued for peace. As the two sides came together in Geneva, Switzerland, international events were already shaping the future of Vietnam's modern revolution. There were many lives lost in the war. Three thousand French troops were killed, and eight thousand wounded.
They chose Chicago because they wanted revenge on the Chicago Police Department, who had brutally beaten several demonstrators (lead by the infamous "Chicago 7" during the 1968 Democratic Convention. In the midst of the evening on October 6th the Weathermen blew up a statue dedicated to policemen in Chicago's Haymarket Square. Hundreds of window shattered from the shockwave of the explosion. The cops were aware of their presence and had a tight eye on the crew. On Wednesday evening an anticipated thousands of demonstrators failed to show and left the Weathermen with only 300 people or so.
Following the resilience from the protesters, the then Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and other party elders resolved in using force against the protesters. They declared a total Martial law on the protesters and deployed 300,000 troops to Beijing that led to the wide spread killing at the Tiananmen Square and arrest of the protesters and their supporters, and also expelled foreign journalist from china. Reference: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16/ http://www.tsquare.tv/themes/TatTcover.html
For example, students at Peking University created a "Democratic Wall" on which they criticized the CCP with posters “They protested CCP control over intellectuals, the harshness of previous mass campaigns such as that against counterrevolutionaries, the slavish following of Soviet models, the low standards of living in China, the proscription of foreign literature, economic corruption among party cadres, and the fact that 'Party members [enjoyed] many privileges which make them a race apart' During the period from June 1 to July 17, 1957, millions of letters poured in to the Premier's Office and other authorities, and the situation began to get out of control. In Mao's opinion, many of these letters violated the boundaries
Literally, “tens of thousands fled to Canada or Europe to avoid the draft” (Wills 29). The burning of draft cards became a symbolic way to oppose the war. However, there were also numerous conventional protests. Kent State is what many people think when asked about protest in the Vietnam War. On May 4, of 1970 four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen in an attempt to quell opposition on the campus of Kent State University.
Because of his regime, many protests occured against him in the “2012 Egyptian protests”. On the 30th of June 2013, the number of protestors broke out and many people rebelled in the “Tahrir Square”. In those conditions, the army was on the side of public, so the rule of “Mohammed Mursi” ended on the 3rd of July, 2013. 3
People would never forget the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989. Chinese army killed hundreds of their own people in the protest. The BBC describes, “Tanks rumbled through the capital's streets late on 3 June as the army moved into the square from several directions, randomly firing on unarmed protesters.” (BBC news). People would never accept the control of a dictator. As a result, they risk their own life to against that.