political protest
Public political opposition
Political protest is collective action expressing opposition to government policies, laws, or authorities.
Protests take many forms—marches, rallies, sit-ins, boycotts, strikes—and range from peaceful demonstration to civil disobedience.
Thousands joined the political protest outside the capitol.
The right to political protest is protected in many democracies, though protesters and authorities often clash over boundaries.
- Chicago SevenDefendants from 1968 protests
- Arab Spring2010s Middle Eastern revolutions
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
suffragette movement · student movement · activists · Occupy Wall Street · Black Lives Matter · boycott · blockade · organizers · social justice · civil rights movement · sit-in · Kent State · dissent · freedom of speech · strike · freedom of assembly · Tiananmen Square · anti-war
- Korea 1960s-80sdemocratization, military coup, military rule, chaebols, economic miracle
- unrestriot, uprising, riots, revolt, civil unrest
- TropicaliaBahia
political protestpolitical apathy
Indifference to governance
acquiescence · complacency · indifference · conformity · obedience
political protestcivil order
Maintained societal stability
social harmony · peaceful coexistence · social stability · normalcy · routine
political protestobedience
Compliance with authority
submission · conformity · bootlicking · subservience · toeing the line
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