Counter Punch Article RatingThe Climate Strike That Wasn't: What's Behind Declining Protest in 2021?
Sep 29, 2021 View Original Article
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-70% Very Liberal
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14% Somewhat Conservative
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94% Negative
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| "These figures are part of a rising movement dedicated to leading the charge for a Green New Deal, which seeks to link concerns with inequality and poverty to climate action by uniting support for campaigns such as universal health care with a shift to a green economy." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "However, it's increasingly common for young people to face difficulties in affording college, and for new graduates to experience job insecurity and struggle with basics such as health care costs, managing student loan repayments, and affording a new home." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "As the figure below demonstrates, total coverage of protests over the last 20 years - measured in number of articles per month - increased significantly over time, spiking in 2003 during the Iraq war, and later in 2011 coinciding with the Madison, Wisconsin protests of Republican Governor Scott Walker's assault on state worker's and collective bargaining and with the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and finally during the mid-to-late 2010s with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Evidence points to the contrary, with the structural factors that the young face as related to health care costs, student loans, a stunted economy, and a dramatically deteriorating environment." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) makes clear that the frequency of demonstration events grew significantly in North America from the late 2000s and early 2010s - during the early Obama years - compared to in the mid-2010s, late in his presidency." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Protest events were the most frequent during Trump's first year in office, and relatively more common in 2018 and 2019 than during the Obama years." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Protest events were the most frequent during Trump's first year in office, and relatively more common in 2018 and 2019 than during the Obama years." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Generation Z has drawn its motivation from numerous activists and political establishment figures who have become focal points in the political fight to combat climate change and address economic inequality, including Greta Thunberg, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, among others." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Generation Z has drawn its motivation from numerous activists and political establishment figures who have become focal points in the political fight to combat climate change and address economic inequality, including Greta Thunberg, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, among others." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "If we were to offer a simplistic explanation for the dramatic decline in protest and protest coverage in 2021, we might adopt the much-repeated leftist platitude that the Democratic Party is the graveyard of social movements, and that the rise of Joe Biden's presidency represents yet another example of how social movements are co-opted and assaulted by smooth-talking Democratic officials who promise to respond to rising protests during Republican administrations but deliver on little to none of their promises." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Protests can and do occur in each era of American history, regardless of which party is in the White House, even if some presidents - like Trump - are associated with even higher amounts of protest." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "As the figure below demonstrates, total coverage of protests over the last 20 years - measured in number of articles per month - increased significantly over time, spiking in 2003 during the Iraq war, and later in 2011 coinciding with the Madison, Wisconsin protests of Republican Governor Scott Walker's assault on state worker's and collective bargaining and with the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and finally during the mid-to-late 2010s with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "And the lowest periods of protest mobilization happen under both parties - under Bush in the early 2000s and under Bush and Obama in the mid-to-late 2000s." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The rising frequency of protests, the data suggest, comes in waves, with the rise of the Iraq war protests in 2003 under Bush, Occupy in 2011 under Obama, and BLM in the mid-2010s and in 2020 under Obama and Trump." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The rising frequency of protests, the data suggest, comes in waves, with the rise of the Iraq war protests in 2003 under Bush, Occupy in 2011 under Obama, and BLM in the mid-2010s and in 2020 under Obama and Trump." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Does this mean that Biden's election had no impact in terms of discouraging protest?" | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "This was not the case during the Obama years and is unlikely to be the case during the Biden administration if it fails to take effective action on protecting black lives and on the climate." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "This was not the case during the Obama years and is unlikely to be the case during the Biden administration if it fails to take effective action on protecting black lives and on the climate." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
64% : These figures are part of a rising movement dedicated to leading the charge for a Green New Deal, which seeks to link concerns with inequality and poverty to climate action by uniting support for campaigns such as universal health care with a shift to a green economy.46% : However, it's increasingly common for young people to face difficulties in affording college, and for new graduates to experience job insecurity and struggle with basics such as health care costs, managing student loan repayments, and affording a new home.
43% : As the figure below demonstrates, total coverage of protests over the last 20 years - measured in number of articles per month - increased significantly over time, spiking in 2003 during the Iraq war, and later in 2011 coinciding with the Madison, Wisconsin protests of Republican Governor Scott Walker's assault on state worker's and collective bargaining and with the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and finally during the mid-to-late 2010s with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
37% : Evidence points to the contrary, with the structural factors that the young face as related to health care costs, student loans, a stunted economy, and a dramatically deteriorating environment.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.