Transnational protest movements traded strategies and replaced pity with solidarity

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. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 279 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Zeynep Tufekci, a Turkish sociologist who had been a part of digitally coordinated activist networks since the alter-globalization moment, noticed that the language employed was nearly identical to that which had been produced in New York and Egypt. “If I squinted and ignored that the language was Turkish,” she reported, “I felt that it could have been in almost any twenty-first-century protest square: organized through Twitter, filled with tear gas, leaderless, networked, euphoric, and fragile.” She also clocked the dual nature of the revolt—it was somewhere between a music festival and the Paris Commune, she wrote. Like Graeber, she rejected the idea that contention is a means to an end. But her interpretation was not based on a prefigurative ideal, but rather on the empirical observation that people were deriving real meaning from these experiences. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 350 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Organizers and optimists spoke hopefully of a “global civil society” that would take action against the ravages of globalization. This new burst of transnational activism during the 1990s and the early twenty-first century marked the latest phase of a two-hundred-year-old form of contentious politics: the social movement. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1124 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent; Tactics and organizers traveled between South American protest movements — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 279; Resistance-based solidarity leaves common meanings unexamined and imported from outside — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 930 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Tactics and organizers traveled between South American protest movements #exemplifies (0.90) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 279
• Transnational antiglobalization activism extends a two-century-old social-movement form #expands (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1124
• Protesters across continents shared identical experiential language despite different causes #qualifies (0.75) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 350
• Resistance-based solidarity leaves common meanings unexamined and imported from outside #complicates (0.72) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 930