Protest & Protest Songs

Protest & Protest Songs
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This lesson contains 23 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 6 videos.

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Protest & Protest Songs

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What is protesting?
  • radical form of communcation
  • people without power or influence find ways to have their voices heard
  • message of dissent 

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Which protests or protest songs do you know of?

Slide 3 - Mind map

Ghandi's Salt March
  • non-violent march 
  • British had a tax on salt; affected poor people immensely
  • people only allowed to buy heavily taxed salt from British

  • marched towards sea, where they gathered salt, which was against the law
  • 60.000 people were thrown in jail
  • afterwards they were released and the law was changed

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Martin Luther King
  • famous speech
  • given after the Freedom March
  • 250.000 people attended the speech

  • MLK (and people attending the march) wanted more freedom and equality for Afro-Americans

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Slide 6 - Video

Martin Luther King
Very effective use of language. MLK refered to:
  • the Bible (America is very religious)
  • The American Declaration of Independence (founding fathers saying all men are created equal)
  • the American Constitution (right to free speech)
  • the Emancipation Proclamation (president Lincoln stating all slaves were free)
  • the Gettysburg Address (president Lincoln saying all men are created equal)

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The Women's March
After Trump became president in 2017, many women went on a march.
  • send a message to Trump and his administration
  • Trump was very mysoginistic (hate against women)
  • wanted to show the world women's rights equal human rights

  • 470.000 people attended the march

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Fridays for Future
  • youth-led and organised global climate strike in 2018
  • 15-year-old Greta Thunberg led a school strike
  • wanted urgent action on climate crisis

  • Other famous climate protestors: Extinction Rebellion

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What about you?
Get in pairs / groups of 3-4
  • What would you protest against or protest for?
  • Think of a slogan for your protest. Explain why your protest works.
  • How would you protest, demanding action?
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5:00

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A few examples

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Protest Music
  • Other way of protesting is through music. 
  • We are going to listen to excerpts from a few songs

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Slide 13 - Video

Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (1963)
  • sums up the tensions of post-war America 
  • fear of apocalypse (nuclear war)
  • written just before Cuban Missle Crisis

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Slide 15 - Video

John Lennon - Imagine
(1971)
  • states there are many issues/problems in our world
  • thinks people should be more united instead of fighting

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Slide 17 - Video

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
(1989)
  • states the Government should allow the Aboriginals to go back to their homelands

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Slide 19 - Video

Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the Name Of (1992)
  • In 1991 Rodney King (an Afro-American) was savagely beaten by the police
  • RATM protested against police brutality
  • they compared the police with the KKK, a supremacist terrorist group in the U.S.

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Slide 21 - Video

Green Day - American Idiot (2004)
  • protest song against president Bush
  • Green Day protested against the war with Iraq, especially as this had lead to the attack of the Twin Tower on 9/11

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Assignment
Get in pairs / groups of 3-4
  • Go online and try to find more modern protest songs
  • What is the song protesting against?
  • What language do they use?
  • Do you think the use of this language is effective?
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10:00

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