The Astor Place Riot Analysis

Although many say that the bombing that caused the Haymarket Riot did not help the cause of the protestors, I claim that the bombing helped the eight hour work day movement by striking fear into the employers, which

Protests riots in the United States has proven to an issue for both the country’s financial strength and the unity of the nation. With the presence of social injustices, combined with the increased impact of social media propaganda, protests riots are beginning to reach an all time high. Protest riots destroy individual communities and businesses, jeopardizes the safety of others and taints the protest’s cause by resorting to civil disobedience. Action must be done in order to prevent these random acts of violence from continuing after every social hot topic. The goal is not to prevent citizens from protesting; in fact, this should be encouraged. The goal is to change the way the protests are handled from both the citizens and authority perspectives, in order to prevent these protests from escalating into something dangerous.

Though sparked by the Rodney King verdict, there were many other causes of the riots that erupted on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The Los Angeles riots in 1992 were devastating. The obvious issue portrayed through the media was black versus white. If you did not live in Los Angeles or California chances are you did not hear full coverage of the story, you heard a simple cut and dry portrayal of the events in South Central. If you heard one thing about the riots, it was that there was a man named Rodney King and he was a black male beaten with excessive force by four white Los Angeles police officers on Los Angeles concrete. The media portrayed the riots as black rage on the streets due to the

Just as one small spark can start a blazing wildfire, one simple bomb on the fateful day at Haymarket Square triggered an explosion in the labor movement that no one had expected. With tension growing exponentially in the workers’ rights area of United States reform in the 1800s, scattered riots inevitably broke out among restless workers, but no previous outbreak could compare to the impact of the notorious Haymarket Riot. The explosion in the crowd of workers battling police officers on that spring day in Chicago mirrored the explosion that occurred for laborers across the nation, with a combination of both beneficial and harmful outcomes to last the rest of history.

In 1961, after noticing the unruliness of Monroe’s teenagers, Robert Williams decided to gather the youth and take a stand against the segregation of the neighborhood pools. This time, however, he came prepared. One day on the way to the pool to protest, Williams’s car was struck and ended up in a ditch. Very quickly a mob formed and called for the murder and burning of the Black occupants of Williams’s car. The man that had struck the vehicle came towards Williams’ car with a baseball bat. “He came up close to our car, within arm’s length with the baseball bat, but I still hadn’t said anything and we didn’t move in the car. What they didn’t know was that we were armed…When this fellow started to draw back his baseball bat, I an Army .45 up

During the trek to Ottawa, Prime Minister Bennett and his government escalated the peaceful assembly to a violent riot. According to first hand accounts of the Regina riot, “Guns were firing. Guess who had the guns? [Bennett] wanted to discredit the trek and he did. Oh, yes, he succeeded. We were, in the eyes of a lot of people, just a bunch of Reds” (Broadfoot 2). This suggests that the Federal government made the unfounded assumption that the assembly was a Communist uprising and felt the need to eliminate the threat at any cost. In addition, the Federal Government allegedly set up the riot by having the railways “complain that the men were trespassing” (Waiser 4) to justify government intervention. With the amount of influence and reach

Most people can feel bad for the people of Baltimore with the furious nature from April 18, 2015 - May 3, 2015. It’s really easy to feel a lot of compassion for the people who’ve suffered from police brutality, poverty, and injustice; even if you’ve never experienced either. Burning and looting a CVS store would be a lot harder to understand and would hardly seem to have anything to do with protesting the actions of the Baltimore Police Department. President Obama decried the Baltimore riots as “senseless act of violence and destruction.” Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake also seemed disheartened. “We worked so hard to get a company like CVS to invest in this neighborhood,” she said, “this is the only place that so many people have to pick up their prescriptions.” Why would anyone burn down the only CVS in their neighborhood?

On June 24th, 2016, the Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage. According to The Williams Institute UCLA School Of Law, approximately nine million adults in americans are apart of the LGBT, not including the american youth and the others who are not out (Gates 1). With that said, these nine million adults are different compared to the others surrounding them. The LGBT has finally gotten their rights to marry whomever they want, and some people are against the idea due to their beliefs. Even if same sex marriage is against someone’s religious beliefs, should it be look down on? Homophobic statistics are splitting the nation, same sex marriage should not be controlled by the government, and churches aren't forced to unwillingly marry homosexuals.

The uprising tension between friends, families, and communities has been spreading around the world and has only been getting worse each month. The reasons why is because of countries and how they treat colored people, LGBT people, and women. But the LGBT community has gotten the most absurd reasons to why they have to fight so hard. From claiming homosexuals are mentally disabled to putting them to death, hate crimes and discrimination against LGBT people have been taken to the extreme. People have been making organizations for human rights ever since 1924 and have been protesting ever since The Stonewall Riots in 1969 but have made a little step from then to now (infoplease). But finally, each year comes closer and

I am going to write about the protests in Ferguson. From the perspective of a pastor, Voddie Baucham, in Texas. He was in Africa when Ferguson happened and he felt people were either telling him that he had to talk on this issue or he would be judged for not, but he didn’t even know what was going on because he was out of the media loop. When he found out, he didn’t want to speak on the issue because he didn’t know ALL the details, but he said he’s entitled to help his followers who are in need of getting through this. He says, “…it worries me that so many Christians view themselves primarily as members of this or that ethnic community more than they see themselves as members of the body of Christ.” He agrees that there are stereotypes associated with black

The New York’s Times Square is one of the most known tourist spot in America. But on Thursday, there was a car incident that set 22 people to hospitals with serious injuries and one person killed. The driver of the Honda Accord responsible of the incident is Richard Rojas, of the Bronx. Rojas had histories of problem regards to alcohol, which includes: two DUI arrested in New York in 2008 and 2015, charged in the Navy in 2013 for DUI, drunk, misconduct action and expressed threat. He also had psychological problems and was tested positive for PCP, which is a type of drug that can cause hallucination with aggressive behavior. It was reported that before the incident took place “the car was ‘out of control’ ”. As the car proceeded, the car

On Tuesday May 4, 1886 a labor dispute in Chicago, Illinois turned into a violent episode of American history which wound up costing approximately a dozen people their lives. Union organization was beginning to become more prevalent as men working in factories began to demand fair and save working conditions, including sufficient pay for their work, safety regulations, and a reasonable work day. Following the American Civil War, industrialization expanded throughout the country. In large cities, big factories were erected wherein unskilled laborers would be hired to do certain jobs. For their work, they would be paid a very small amount of money and, if they complained about conditions or pay, a steady flow of immigrants from Europe and Asia were willing to take their place (Huberman 2004, page 964). If a worker were injured and unable to work anymore, then they were out of luck as the employer had no obligation to protect their workers or to help them after they had become disabled. Most of these protests ended peaceably even when the two arguing sides had not reached a consensus. Unfortunately, there were also occasions like the one in Chicago which ended in violence and bloodshed.

During the 18th century, riots were formed a recurrent features of the social and political life in France and Berlin, when people rioted they tried to avoid using violence, people became the voice of that country they had the power to make a change for the government and for the society itself. The rioters were from the mixed social groups they weren’t just the underclass or lower class rioting, many were skilled artisans and respectable citizens. (Clarke and Wood ward.2014.p.293)

Marsha P. Johnson, an African American transwoman is identified as one of the first people to fight back against the police during the early start of the Stonewall Riots. Her and many other African American transwomen were the leaders in that monumental year that really began the big push for the fight for LGBT rights as we know it today, and yet, they are rarely mentioned or remembered by popular culture for their efforts. That erasure is not simply a onetime occurrence, African American transwomen are often ignored and not given any visibility in the LGBT nor African American community. The single most evident part of this invisibility, in my opinion, is the utter lack of media/press and discussion of the murders of these young women.

The riots in England in 2011 can be explored in terms of social psychological phenomenon. As such, the initiation and maintenance of the riots could have happened due to a number of interlinking factors, including minority influence, social learning theory, and deindividuation.