"The Streets Belong To The People"-- The Rising Tide Of Global Protests




Loud & Clear show

Summary: On today's special episode of Loud &amp; Clear, Brian Becker looks at protest movements unfolding across the globe.<br><br>Five years ago in 2011, Time Magazine chose “The Protester” as its Person of the Year. This was on the heels of the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the so-called Arab Spring. In 2016, protests continue to rage across the world from France to Brazil and throughout the Unites States. Are we in a new age of protest, and possibly even revolution? <br><br>Becker spends the full-hour looking at some of the world’s mass movements in the streets and what makes them similar -- or completely different. He is joined from London by Dr. Francisco Dominguez, the head of the Centre for Brazilian and Latin American Studies at Middlesex University; from Scotland by political analyst and author John Wight; in Washington, D.C. by activist Karina Garcia and labor organizer Estevan Hernandez from Sacramento, California