Pounding the Pavement
By Genevieve Collins
In recent years, street protests have increased in frequency around the globe. Social media has given rise to grassroots, leaderless movements from Lebanon to Chile, the United States, Russia, and beyond. In this podcast series, Jake Leischner and Genevieve Collins explore three protests -- the Yellow Vests in France, Algeria's Hirak Movement, and Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests -- with scholars and reporters to try to better understand this phenomenon.
Pounding the Pavement Jan 29, 2021
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Episode 1: France, Yellow Vests
An analysis of the Yellow Vests movement in France, featuring Elaine Ganley of the Associated Press and Dr. Emilie Tran of Hong Kong Baptist University.
Attributions: [Music] “Escape” by Scott Holmes is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0; [FX] “Large crowd confrontation with police, shouting and whistling” by Felix Blume is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal; [News report 1] “Hong Kong weekend protests canceled, pro-democracy activist arrested” by CNBC Television; [News report 2] “Yellow vest movement Paris police fire tear gas at protestors” by BBC News.
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