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Roger Allen LaPorte (1943–1965) – American Catholic Worker who self-immolated in protest against the Vietnam War; Bryan Law (1954–2013) – Australian non-violent activist; Louis Lecoin (1888–1971) – French anarchist and pacifist; Urbain Ledoux (1874–1941) – American BaháΚΌí diplomat and activist
a protest in Romania in April by Bucharest students who demanded a non-communist government. The protests ended in bloodshed after an intervention of miners called in by President Ion Iliescu (June 1990 Mineriad). 1991: 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt: led to the effect of a revolution, was mostly non-violent.
This lack of clarity (or long-term continuity) has been part of the strategy of those seeking to end a war, such as the Vietnam War. Global protests against the U.S. invasion of Iraq in early 2003 are an example of a specific, short-term, loosely affiliated single-issue "movement" consisting of relatively-scattered ideological priorities ...
Women across the spectrum were much less supportive of the war [clarification needed] than men. [2] [3] Women in church groups [clarification needed] were especially anti-war; however, women in the suffrage movement in different countries wanted to support the war effort, asking for the vote as a reward for that support. In France, women ...
By 25 July 1919, 800 Egyptians were killed, and 1,600 others were wounded. [19] Heavy-handed police suppression of the riots were often justified by claims that the police were only putting down Egyptian "rabble" who engaged not in genuine political protest but rather in shortsighted rioting and looting.
The revolutions of 1917–1923 were a revolutionary wave that included political unrest and armed revolts around the world inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution and the disorder created by the aftermath of World War I. The uprisings were mainly socialist or anti-colonial in nature.
The protests that raged throughout 1968 were for the most part student-led. Worldwide, campuses became the front-line battle grounds for social change. While opposition to the Vietnam War dominated the protests, students also protested for civil liberties, against racism, for feminism , and the beginnings of the Ecology movement can be traced ...
During the war, the New York Draft Riots were started as violent protests against Lincoln's Enrollment Act of Conscription to draft men to fight in the war. The outrage over conscription was augmented by the ability to "buy" one's way out, which could be afforded only by the wealthy.