Strategy #10 – Change through Street Demonstrations
Street demonstrations are public displays meant to consolidate popular support around common grievances and convey demands to existing power structures. Such protests are an important form of mass expression because they often draw media coverage, demonstrate strength and give energy to movements for change. These are the voices of people who sought to promote change through street demonstrations.  Please review them and answer the questions in the Listening Guide.

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Answer the following about each change-maker:

1. What issues motivated the people to hold a public demonstration?
   
2. Who was involved in the demonstrations?
   
3. What consequences resulted from the actions?

For Further Discussion:

• In what ways were these experiences similar?
  
• In what ways were these experiences different?
  
• Why is it important for demonstrators to have a shared sense of purpose and an organized plan?
  
• Identify three countries in which street demonstrations have taken place in the past year.

Change-Makers:

Sopo Chakeureli, Georgia

Renato Reyes, Philippines

Mehdi Barhoumi, Tunisia

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