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A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public act of objection, disapproval or dissent against political advantage. [1] [2] Protests can be thought of as acts of cooperation in which numerous people cooperate by attending, and share the potential costs and risks of doing so. [3]
The often clearly visible demonstrations are intended to spread awareness among the public, or disrupt the goings-on of the protested organization. Lunch counter sit-ins were a nonviolent form of protest used to oppose segregation during the civil rights movement, and often provoked heckling and violence from those opposed to their message. [1]
Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. [1] It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. [2] The expression was coined by the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into peaceful affirmative spectacles.
The movement was known to block roads and use other forms of civil disobedience adapted from the civil rights movement in the United States to make known their protests and goals. Feiglin details every step of the movement, including both its formation and activities, as well as the response by the Israeli political and media establishments, in ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong's Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted an application by the government to ban a protest anthem called "Glory to Hong Kong", overturning a lower court judgment that ...
Repertoire of contention refers, in social movement theory, to the set of various protest-related tools and actions available to a movement or related organization in a given time frame. [1] [2] The historian Charles Tilly, who brought the concept into common usage, also referred to the "repertoire of collective action." [3]
The term was coined in 1968 by American Lacey O'Neal during the 1968 Summer Olympics in the context of protests by male African American athletes. The term was later used by retired tennis player Billie Jean King in 1999 in reference to Wimbledon, while discussing equal pay for women players. [6]
Months after demonstrators took to the streets of Washington D.C. to protest police brutality against minorities, the Secretary of the Army says an investigation into a helicopter used outside the ...