2011 - a Year of Protest ; People Power has Swept Across the World This Year with Widespread Demonstrations and Sometimes Violent Clashes. Stephen Cape Asks, Could 2011 Be Remembered As the Year of the Protest in the Uk?

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IN 1930 it was Mahatma Gandhi, in 1949 Winston Churchill and in 1980, Ronald Reagan. Time Magazine's Person of the Year has, since 1927, recorded the person the American publication feel has made the greatest contribution to world affairs.

Over the years, the great and good have been honoured, alongside entries for the American Fighting Man (1950), Baby Boomers (1966) and even the computer (1982).

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2011 - a Year of Protest ; People Power has Swept Across the World This Year with Widespread Demonstrations and Sometimes Violent Clashes. Stephen Cape Asks, Could 2011 Be Remembered As the Year of the Protest in the Uk?

But in a year that has seen protests on the streets of Egypt, Libya, New York and many English cities - Newcastle included - the 2011 Person of the Year has been named as "the Protester".

For many who took part in the publi...

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