A Piano-Playing Ukraine Protester Serenades Riot Police 1 Favorite 

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Dec 9 2013

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Kiev, Ukraine

By: Patrick Randall

KIEV — Several thousand pro-European Ukrainians demonstrated in the capital for President Viktor Yanukovych's resignation over the weekend. One man even played the piano in front of Ukranian riot police on Kiev’s Independence Square.

The movement, known now as the “Euro Revolution,” claims Yanukovych is “selling” Ukraine to Russia, after the government refused to sign an association agreement with the EU in November.

A group of protesters symbolically smashed the city’s statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin Sunday, before taking its dismembered parts as trophies to Independence Square.

External sources: 

http://www.worldcrunch.com/default/a-piano-playing-ukraine-protester-serenades-r…
http://o.canada.com/news/photos-massive-protests-in-kiev-ukraine/
Posted by wag on Dec 12 2013

Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
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The revolution did something for sure! And this was a part of it.