Protest Poetry

True or false?

He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

• True

• False

It is mostly only young people from less developed countries who get involved in protest action.

• True

• False. It is mostly youth from developed countries who get involved in protest action.

• False. Youth from all backgrounds are protesting.

• False. Young people are not mature enough to understand complex political issues.

Which of the following is a good explanation of what dogma is?

• Dogma is a fixed, especially religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts.

• Dogma is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.

• Dogma is a brand of high protein dog biscuits.

Mohandas Gandhi believed the following:

• Non-violent protest action

• You need to match the oppressor's brutality with equal brutality.

• An eye for an eye.

• Truth

Which of the following can be classified as a protest tactic?

• Signage

• Sit-Ins

• Shouting

• Oblivion

True or false?

Silence and stillness can also be used as a protest tactic.

• True

• False

• True. But it would not be an effective tactic.

Who said these words?

“You can write me down in history with hateful, twisted lies, you can tread me in this very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise”

• Oprah Winfrey

• Maya Angelou

• Nelson Mandela

• F W de Klerk

True or false?

Boycotts are an convenient protest tactic because they do not require much planning.

• True

• False

Which of the following is an example of sabotage?

• The lone Chinese man who, after the Tiananmen Square massacre that killed hundreds of protesters, stood in front of a column of rolling tanks.

• You found out about how Coca Cola mistreats its Latin American workers so you organise a group of people to stop using Coca Cola products.

• An activist hacker group “Anonymous” hacks into various government and corporate systems to expose secrets, lies and corruption.

Which of the following is true about hunger strikes?

• There is no such thing as a hunger strike, because no one would take you seriously.

• Bobby Sands, of the Provisional Irish Republican Party, led a hunger strike in 1981 while imprisoned by the British. He went 66 days until dying from his strike.

• A hunger strike is basically where you refuse to eat until your particular demands are met.

• Hunger strikes are no longer effective because there are so many people with eating disorders anyway.