- Protests can be a $4 for enacting change.
- Currently, protests are happening in places like $4, $4, $4, and $4, to name a few.
- Despite each demonstration stemming from vastly different issues, many have common threads: citizens want to express their discontent with their current governments, from the $4 in Paris to $4 against a draconian criminal code.
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Protests have long been a powerful $4 and expressing discontent.
From the Civil Rights Movement's $4 to $4 protests have left powerful marks upon the world. Historically, protests have served as an outlet for marginalized groups to articulate their frustrations - and make their demands known. One such example is New York's $4, which kicked off the modern Pride movement and mainstream LGBTQ visibility.
Today, protests like last month's $4 and $4 are calls for politicians to change their policies. The climate strike, for example, drew over $4, making it the biggest demonstration against climate change in history.
While protests have changed significantly with the rise of technology and social media, they're still powerful agents for change.
In an interview with $4, technological sociologist Zeynep Tufekci said that modern protest has the "capacity for changing the narrative."
"The thing is, though in the past, you can think of the protest as an exclamation mark at the end of a long sentence, whereas right now it's just the first word in a potential sentence," Tufekci told WNYC.
Protests are happening right now, all over the world, from the $4 in Paris to $4 against a draconian criminal code.
Here are the protests currently happening around the world.