Professional classes joining protests changes their political dimensions
Evidence
On December 28 a group of Tunisian attorneys gathered in front of the National Palace of Justice. Lawyers had already protested in the city of Kasserine, but the arrival of this distinguished professional group onto the scene standing tall outside the center of judicial power in Tunis changed the dimensions of the wave of contention. By the final days of 2010, lawyers were protesting in almost a dozen more cities. The organized bourgeoisie was starting to join the revolt. ā Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 197
Categorization
- STORYSTEM: A scene in which a ādistinguished professional groupā joining a street revolt transforms its meaning ā lawyers outside the palace of justice as the hinge where a workersā revolt becomes a bourgeois-backed national movement.
- XREF: connects to: Mass protests transform individual participants into class-conscious actors ā Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirrorā¦, 1087; Spreading protests shifted students from campus politics to general political conflict.; Expanded protest crowds can blunt original organizersā political messaging. ā Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade andā¦, 409
Broader Connections
- Spreading protests shifted students from campus politics to general political conflict.
#exemplifies(0.85) - Mass protests transform individual participants into class-conscious actors
#expands(0.78) ā Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1087 - Expanded protest crowds can blunt original organizersā political messaging.
#complicates(0.78) ā Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 409