Should students stay away from agitations and remain confined to classrooms?
The world knows that they are the agents of change. Recounting student movements that often made this world a better place to live & changed the course of history - a thread to remember them again:
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The world knows that they are the agents of change. Recounting student movements that often made this world a better place to live & changed the course of history - a thread to remember them again:
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Vietnam War Protests 1966-69: Kent State University campus became the epicentre, 4 students killed in police firing, the movement spread, ended the war.
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Anti-apartheid Soweto Uprising 1976: 20000 students joined protest, police firing killed 176. It sparked anti-apartheid movements throughout the world, leading to end of apartheid 15 years later.
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Greensboro agitation, 1960: small groups of students protested across US cities.
This agitation effectively demonstrated the power of protest by small groups.
It led to Civil Rights Act, 1964, US
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This agitation effectively demonstrated the power of protest by small groups.
It led to Civil Rights Act, 1964, US
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Tiananmen Sqaure Protest, 1989: Students protested against the regime. Image of single student facing tanks caught global attention. Unknown number killed in in firing. The regime didn’t change, but it’s character changed. Economic liberalisation followed.
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Velvet Revolution, 1989: After fall of Berlin Wall, Students protest in Prague, leading to change in power.
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University Agitations, 1968: Started with Howard University, demeaning the resignation of University President. Soon, it spread Columbia and universities around the world, each with own demands and results.
(and they say, good universities are only about textbooks and class)
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(and they say, good universities are only about textbooks and class)
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Iran 1999: Started with police raids in University of Tehran and soon spread like wild fire. The protests won and secured the students’s right to engage in political activism even in a regulated country like Iran.
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India: (Pre-Modi era, when student agitations were a desired democratic tool and an honourable act. Even Modi ji’s colleagues participated in them)
In 1905, students of Eden College in Calcutta burned down Viceroy Lord Curzon’s effigy to protest the partition of Bengal.
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In 1905, students of Eden College in Calcutta burned down Viceroy Lord Curzon’s effigy to protest the partition of Bengal.
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Anti Hindi Movement of Tamil Nadu 1965
Nav Nirman Andolan (Reconstruction Movement), 1974
Bihar student movement, 1974 (also called JP movement)
Assam Agitation (1979 to 1985)
Anti-Mandal agitation, 1990
An HT article has details on these, posting its link in next tweet
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Nav Nirman Andolan (Reconstruction Movement), 1974
Bihar student movement, 1974 (also called JP movement)
Assam Agitation (1979 to 1985)
Anti-Mandal agitation, 1990
An HT article has details on these, posting its link in next tweet
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