Gezi Park’s model let daytime workers join evening-only while diaspora flew in

Evidence

At the same time, Gezi Park welcomed protesters who could come by every day in the evening after work. Turks living abroad spent days glued to Facebook, and some of them with the means and inclination jumped on planes to join the movement. More demonstrations erupted in Izmir, Ankara, and a dozen other cities. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 342

Categorization

  • XREF: Pays off the ch12 claim that ‘permanent occupations skewed toward those free to idle, then faded anyway’ — Gezi’s flexible schedule is the counter-case. — connects to: A worldwide wave of anti-establishment movements-from Tea Party to Gezi-Park broke out 2009-2013 — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 167

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