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The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...
List of protests against the Vietnam War (1945-1973) 1968 Columbia University protests (Vietnam war links and a segregated gymnasium) Protests against the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021) Protests against the Iraq War (2003-2011) Protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis; Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States (2023-)
1971 - Newton, MA Draft Board Protest 1971 May 3, - 55 Arrested; 1971 - Newton, MA Charges against the 55 Arrested at May 3 Draft Board Protest dismissed by Judge Francis Larkin. Protest action was determined by Court to be Civil Disturbance protected as Free Speech by the First Amendment of US Constitution.
This is a list of protests in the 21st century. Georgian colour revolution , named Rose revolution . Mass demonstrations in Avenue Habib Bourguiba during the Tunisian revolution that overthrew the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on 14 January 2011.
While immigration is the point of discussion recently, marches and protests have formed for a number of other political causes throughout U.S. history.
Tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, over 175 distillers from Kentucky were convicted of violating the tax law. [9] Suppressed by an army personally led by President Washington: No specific events Fries's Rebellion: 1799–1800 Rebel farmers Armed tax revolt among Pennsylvania Dutch farmers. Thirty men went on trial in Federal ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
2017 pro-jallikattu protests: 21 January 2017 1 million Marina Beach, Chennai India [163] Anti-nuclear protests in the United States: 12 June 1982 1 million Political rally Central Park, New York City USA Call for an end to the Cold War arms race. It was the largest anti-nuclear protest and the largest political demonstration in American ...