Protest tactics and manuals diffused between Latin American movements across borders
Evidence
Back in Brazil, members of the Movimento Passe Livre paid close attention to their comrades in Chile, and they naturally sympathized with the latter group. They favored the more “autonomous” forces that gained influence as the year wore on. Several members of the MPL went to meet with protesters in Santiago and came back to São Paulo with a manual for training students in the art of contention. But Piñera and the rest of the Chilean state stood stubbornly in the way of radical change. As the demonstrations dragged well into 2012, it became clear that despite the largest protests since the fall of the dictatorship, no major victories were imminent. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 279
Categorization
- XREF: Tactical diffusion across borders echoes the spread of protest methods such as those seen in the Arab Spring and global Occupy wave. — connects to: Tactics and organizers traveled between South American protest movements — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 279; Transnational protest movements traded strategies and replaced pity with solidarity; Similarities in protest tactics across countries can mask crucially different local conditions — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 46 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Tactics and organizers traveled between South American protest movements
#corroborates(0.95) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 279 - Transnational protest movements traded strategies and replaced pity with solidarity
#expands(0.88) - Similarities in protest tactics across countries can mask crucially different local conditions
#qualifies(0.82) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 46 - Protesters across continents shared identical experiential language despite different causes
#expands(0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 350 - Demonstrations detached from social movements and diffused into nondemocratic regimes
#expands(0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1232