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**By: Steve Molloy ( SteveM. )**
**In Rome's history, there have been many counts of protests in Rome, though maybe not very violent. Citizens protested about a lot of things, like women rights, politics, censorship, inequality, debt, and lack of trade, money, and food. They protested in a handful of ways, like not paying taxes, riots, no one buying certain items, speaking out in public gatherings like theaters, and to protest against the government.** [|linky]

=**FACTS:**=

**THEN:**
Violent protests:

Rome protested A LOT. They protested whenever a body of people did NOT like a issue like a ruler. Protests happened in many ways 1. **Taxing- They didn’t pay their taxes crippling the government foundation 2. In riots, protesters met up in public squares, fountains, and forums. They chanted and were VERY frowned apaun 3. Issues: Women’s rights, those in exile(Ex: Octavian from Nero), and taxes 4. Rome DIDN’T have a police force! Riots could get very violent very fast. The army was there in very routy situations, but it made everybody look bad, think about the us army attacking citizens.5. freedom of speech was only given to those with authority! In less a person in a high position backed a cause, it was technically not “allowed” Though it happened often 6. NO INEQUALITY!!!! Only 1% or Rome was RICH and A LOT of poor people against 1% of the population was a HUGE outnumbering. 7. LOTS of Roman government censorship.**

**NOW:**
==== 1. Egyptian revolution: overthought Mubarak: citizens want freedom from a 30+ year “presidency” that in other words would be called a dictatorship: protests are reported to be violent: Egyptian protests give other countries courage to protest and have overthought lots of other governments. ====

3. Occupy Wall Street: argue ‘99%’ and government corruption throughout United States: protests are reported to be both violent and peaceful.
4. Syria revolution: currently happening: Syria government vs. citizens: protested so far have been reported violent: further update once more is known. ==== 5. Times 2011 person of the year: The Protester: due to lots of revolutions and protests: Lots of disputes over the times pick, but most say it is what it is: for more: [] ==== 6. Note picture at 3. Anonymous hacker group: having a ‘presence’ at occupy protests and is hacking for their cause: anonymous is a ‘idea’ so amount of members are unlimited: they are wanted by the united stated FBI and Scotland yard: for more [] 7. Huge spikes in riots and violent protests have been happening in the 21st century due to issues usually involving governmental issues. 8. Republic of Waydia; The Dictator: a funny Hollywood movie over take on revolutions: Opinion: looks hilarious! : If you didn’t see the commercial at the super bowl the link is: [] : for the site: []

WHAT ROME DID TO STOP PROTESTS: the police force sometimes had a = = = QUESTIONS: =

**Police:** 1.Do your anti-riot methods work? 2.Do you like "rubber" bullets and tear gas? 3.Define a riot and a protest? 4.Do you enjoy what you do? 5.How do you feel about what the occupy movement?

**Protesters**:

1. What is the difference between protesting and rioting? 2. What does protesting solve? 3. How do you protest and organize something that big? 4. Define the “1%” of people that make over $506,000 annually. 5. Where would money go it went “out” of polotics? = = 1. What is occupy Wall Street? 2. What is a peaceful and a violent protest? 3. Do you beleave in protests?
 * Average citizens:**

= WHO I SENT QUESTIONS TO: =

**David DeGraw**: A very good writer and reporter involved in protests like "The 99%" and OCCUPY protests.
==== **Philip Banks III**: NYPD chief of community affairs(riot police chief) [] and __communityaffairs@nypd.org__ He has been on the police force for over 25 years. ====

= WHAT I SENT: = Dear David DeGraw, Hello, My name Is Steve Molloy and I am in seventh grade at Nagel Middle School in Cincinnati, Ohio. We are currently doing a project in social studies where we try to fix ancient Roman problems that lead to downfall of their civilization using ideas and technology of this century. I am doing my report on protesting and know that you are currently covering occupy Wall Street and wrote the book __The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States.__ I was wondering if you could solve some questions I have, they are: 1. What is the difference between protesting and rioting? 2. What does protesting solve? 3. How do you protest and organize something that big? 4. Define the “1%” of people that make over $506,000 annually. 5. Where would money go it went “out” of polotics?

Thank you very much and I think your articles on OWS are very good.

From, Steve Molloy

Dear Chief Philip Banks III,

Hello, My name Is Steve Molloy and I am in seventh grade at Nagel Middle School in Cincinnati, Ohio. We are currently doing a project in social studies where we try to fix ancient Roman problems that lead to downfall of their civilization using ideas and technology of this century. I am doing my report on protesting and know that the NYPD is there at occupy Wall Street and that you are the chief of community affairs. I was wondering if you could solve some questions I have, they are:


 * 1) . Have you ever been in a violent protest, if so what was it like and what did you do to stop it?
 * 2) How long would it take to stop a full on protest in an area with not a big police force?
 * 3) In mid protest, how would something go from very peaceful and calm to violent and lots of chaos?
 * 4) Are there any non-violent methods of stopping protests instead of meeting violence with more violence?

Thank you very much; I hope to hear from you soon, and thank you for keeping New York safe.

From, Steve Molloy

= REPLIES: =

 communityaffairs @nypd.org Good afternoon Steve,

Thank you for taking the time to contact the Community Affairs Bureau. As members of the New York City Police Department, we have all been involved in protests. They all vary in scope and size and require different police tactics be used. I encourage you to visit our website @http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/community_affairs/community_affairs.shtml. There you will learn more about the Community Affairs Bureau, the type of programs we have to offer and the type of work we do on a daily basis.

Take care

Detective Crisafi

=HOW THE U.S. SOLVES PROTESTS TODAY:= During riots themselves, the police use lots of riot control weapons and tactics like tear gas, pepper spray, riot shields, rubber bullets, sound grenades, and pressurized water. The US is very cool because it listens to protests. Freedom of speech is a very valuable thing and I think the protesters are using it to their advantage. This morning, I watched the sunday morning [|NEWS]. It talked about protests, how they have been effected by technology like twitter, and about the effect of there protests. Protesting is a very big thing today in out society and I think that the protester and the us are being great about it. We the citizens show what we believe in, not if our senator or congressman does, and we are heard. The us listens and we are heard. I think that is how the us is trying to solve protests or the problems protests bring up today.

=PROJECT(PODCAST):= I did a podcast with Ian S. his link is HERE Our podcast is here-> [] Facts in description. = = = = =SCRIPT:=


 * Script: BY: Steve M. And Ian S. **
 * Both: Hello and welcome to our podcast **


 * S: Hi, I’m Steve **


 * I: And I’m Ian **


 * S: Hi! Today we will be talking about the Rome! Rome fell in 476 AD. Some causes of that were lack of food, taxes and a bad economy. One fall of Rome was from violent protests. **


 * I: Yep, citizens protested about a lot of things like food shortages, high taxes, horrible living conditions, a bad government, people’s rights, the rich, leaders ,jobs, and anything that a vast minority of the body of citizens opposed. **


 * S: Roman citizens protested in a variety of ways like not paying taxes, rioting, going on strike, and just protesting in general. **


 * I: We have been asked the task to “save” the Roman Empire because protesting ultimately made the Roman Empire fall. **


 * S: So our plan is to build a time machine and go tell the people of Rome to not protest. We finally built our time machine but it seems like we have some bugs and kinks to work out, but it should be ready soon. **


 * I: We promise to take tapes with us so we can record out journey. Hey Steve, why don’t we tell these good people about what we’re doing. **


 * S: Ok, so what we found out is that the protests of Rome are a lot like nowadays. **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: We can compare protests today like occupy Wall Street, the “99%” movment, and Egyptian protests to protests in Rome over jobs and companies, the rich, and overall governments. **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Ok, so what’s going on at Occupy Wall Street and other Occupy places? **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: A lot of stuff, citizens want to raise the minimum wage (18 dollars an hour) concerning jobs, no layoffs, health care for all, no homeschooling, and to shut down big businesses due to fear of taking over job availability and lowering money of average employed citizen. **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Wow! That’s a lot of demands! Has the Occupy groups been successful at all ? **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: Not yet, but they have created a lot of media attention and there is a big group of people backing them up. What have you found concerning the 99% movement Steve? **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: A lot Ian, by the way, how’s the time machine coming? **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: Great! We just need to fix the motor compressor-de-matic-5,000! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Great! The 99% movement is all about United States citizens. 99% of U.S. citizens make under $506,000 annually. The 99% want the 1% or rich citizens to become 99% or vice versa. They don’t like the large amounts of money some citizens have while others don’t have enough money to eat lunch. This ties into Wall Street and jobs also, the 99% want the 1%’s jobs to be more available. **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: Interesting, I know that ties into Roman problems where there was such a big gap between the rich and the poor. **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: You are very right, do you know anything about the Egyptian protests? **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: Yes, I do. The Egyptians have been under the rain of Mubarak, he has been their president for over 30 years, but dictatorship would probably be the right word for it. **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Wow! that’s a lot like Rome! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: How’s the time machine coming? **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Ian! It’s working it’s on! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: Let’s Go! **


 * ( back round noises ) **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Ok, let me see, Rome fell in 476 AD so should we go to 475? **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: Makes sense to me! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Let’s go! **
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Ok! open the door! **


 * MEGUSTA! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: Whoops I think we went to the Aztecs, sorry guys **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Shut the door quick! **


 * <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">STOP MEGUSTA! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I:Ok Rome, (make button pushing sounds) **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Off to Rome!! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: OK here it is! **


 * BOTH: WOOOOOW! **
 * STATIC, 2 HOURS LATER, **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: Steve, I think we have a problem! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: What, that was so cool, did you see how he shook my hand! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: Man, I forgot to turn on my recorder I was so excited, please tell me you didn’t forget! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: O, ha ha ( sarcastic intone laugh) NO **


 * BOTH: NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! **


 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I: (cheery voice) WATCH OUR NEXT EPISODE TO HEAR ABOUT OUR JOURNEY! **

=ROMAN PROBLEM:=

Rome is a lot like today. History has repeated itself! We can compare things like the rich over poor, jobs, rights, and other things from then to now. I think the reason Rome fell was not from protests, protesting was an effect of other things that happened that made citizens very mad. I think Rome would need to become like america, where there is protesting still, but that won't lead to the ultimate downfall of america. America is great, but it can change and will never appeal to everyone, but as long as there are big groups of people that have different incomes, race, and age are for something, you did it right.

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