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Despite uprisings such as that of the Ciompi (wool-workers), the resilient Florentines were well-fed and highly literate compared to the rest of the country.
In 1968, with uprisings sweeping the globe, student protests triggered a wave of demands for greater Kosovar autonomy.
The grand square, wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by assassin’s bullets in the praça in 1908, and one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974 was staged in this place.
It further requires addressing the root causes of poverty and inequality, which give rise to the phenomenon of migration and trafficking as well as propagate violent uprisings.
Will points out that the GOP establishment's endorsement of Bush was completely voluntary and that grassroots uprisings, as McCain is attempting to bring about, are not always good for the party--look at what George McGovern did to the Democrats.