Blog Post #9

             One overarching strategies used by institutions to keep social movements from achieving their goals or overall purpose to change is the strategy of Coercive Persuasion. This act of resists social movements by using various techniques of threats and legal actions to stop the progression of the social movement. The overall goal or purpose of this is to persuade the social group that they have the power and capability to anything necessary to end the social movement. Some examples of what coercive persuasion is capable of is various things from harassment to the protestors or leaders of the movement, to the government infiltrating the social movements information and have constant information of the movement and people. Also arrest of certain protestors or leaders of the movement is common, with either setting them up to break the law or finding something that can have them be arrested or brought to court.
            An example of a social movement that has been under treatment by this is strategy is the Brazil's movement against Copper. This social movement has attempted to stop the production of copper mines and production within Brazil, from using protests and various attempts to transform the social reality of the people and government of Brazil. Although this social movement has been met with various strategies to stop the progression of the social movement, many of them being strategies of coercive persuasion. The protestor leaders have been met by officials from the mining company and threatened that their lively hood and safety would be damaged if they didn't stop what they were doing. Also they would be harassed by the copper companies would make counter organizations that would protests against the anti-cooper corporations and support and protests FOR the production and building of cooper mines.