political protest

A political protest is a collective public action, such as demonstrations, marches, or rallies, through which people express opposition to or support for specific political decisions, policies, or authorities.

Aliases (48)

• social movement ×56
• protest movement ×20
• civil rights campaign ×8
• civil rights protest ×8
• political demonstration ×7
• protest ×7
• civil disturbance ×5
• labor protest ×4
• protest march ×4
• civil rights conflict ×3
• civil rights march ×3
• nonviolent demonstration ×3
• nonviolent protest ×3
• nonviolent resistance campaign ×3
• urban uprising ×3
• anti-nuclear protest ×2
• civil rights demonstration ×2
• mass protest ×2
• nonviolent direct action campaign ×2
• peace march ×2
• political rally ×2
• protest movement event ×2
• student protest ×2
• Aboriginal civil rights protest ×1
• Chartist protest ×1
• Indigenous land rights protest ×1
• anti-nuclear protest march ×1
• civil rights protest campaign ×1
• climate strike ×1
• environmental protest ×1
• human rights protest ×1
• interracial protest movement ×1
• mass boycott ×1
• mass demonstration ×1
• nonviolent direct action ×1
• nonviolent movement ×1
• nonviolent protest campaign ×1
• nonviolent resistance action ×1
• peace demonstration ×1
• peace movement action ×1
• peaceful protest ×1
• protest campaign ×1
• protest encampment ×1
• protest event ×1
• series of protests ×1
• social movement method ×1
• student protest movement ×1
• working-class protest ×1

Instances (191)

• Freedom and People’s Rights Movement ("social movement")
• Freedom Summer ("civil rights campaign")
• Rally of Victory ("political rally")
• Freedom Rides ("civil rights protest campaign")
• Non-Cooperation Movement ("nonviolent resistance campaign")
• Greensboro sit-ins ("civil rights protest")
• Salt March ("nonviolent protest")
• Aldermaston Marches ("anti-nuclear protest")
• Aldermaston Marches to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment ("anti-nuclear protest march")
• Haymarket affair ("labor protest")
• King Street, Boston
• Chicago Freedom Movement ("civil rights campaign")
• Boston Tea Party
• Project C (Confrontation) ("civil rights campaign")
• Children's Crusade ("civil rights protest")
• Free Speech Movement ("student protest movement")
• American civil rights movement ("social movement")
• Montgomery bus boycott ("civil rights protest")
• Regulator Movement ("social movement")
• Chartism ("social movement")
• Battle of the Bogside ("civil disturbance")
• Hunger strikes of 1981 ("protest")
• Northern Ireland civil rights movement ("social movement")
• MeToo movement ("social movement")
• FFF ("social movement")
• European labour movement ("social movement")
• Tunisian Revolution ("social movement")
• Egyptian Revolution of 2011 ("protest movement")
• Women’s March on Versailles ("protest")
• James Farmer ("civil rights campaign")
• Yemeni Revolution of 2011 ("protest movement")
• 1905 Russian Revolution ("social movement")
• Bloody Sunday (1905)
• Brazilian independence movement ("social movement")
• Gordon Riots ("civil disturbance")
• Birmingham campaign ("civil rights campaign")
• Day of Mourning ("protest event")
• National Day of Mourning (1938) ("Aboriginal civil rights protest")
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877 ("protest movement")
• Turnaround Tuesday ("civil rights march")
• digital rights movement ("social movement")
• Language Movement in East Bengal ("social movement")
• Little Rock Integration Crisis ("civil rights conflict")
• women's suffrage movement ("social movement")
• Savio ("social movement")
• New Left ("social movement")
• Solidarity movement ("social movement")
• Puerto Rican independence movement ("social movement")
• Arab Spring ("series of protests")
• Occupy Wall Street ("protest movement")
• Russian election protests 2011 ("protest movement")
• Fridays for Future ("social movement")
• Chicano movement ("social movement")
• Delano grape strike ("labor protest")
• 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign ("protest movement")
• Defiance Campaign
• Sarvodaya ("social movement")
• Italian Risorgimento ("social movement")
• United Democratic Front ("social movement")
• Resurrection City ("protest encampment")
• St. Augustine movement ("civil rights campaign")
• 2011 Chilean student protests ("social movement")
• Edenton
• Vietnamese nationalism ("social movement")
• open-source movement ("social movement")
• free culture movement ("social movement")
• labour movement ("social movement")
• Saffron Revolution
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ("civil rights demonstration")
• Selma to Montgomery marches ("civil rights protest")
• 2021 Myanmar anti-coup protests ("protest movement")
• LGBT rights movement ("social movement")
• Māori sovereignty movement ("social movement")
• Asian American movement ("social movement")
• Polish independence movement ("social movement")
• 1970 Polish protests ("protest movement")
• Pan-Africanism ("social movement")
• Black feminist movement ("social movement")
• 1966 Meredith March Against Fear ("civil rights march")
• 1968 Mexico City Olympics Black Power salute
• 1967 Newark riots ("civil disturbance")
• 1967 Detroit rebellion ("civil disturbance")
• American abolitionist movement ("social movement")
• Catalan independence movement ("social movement")
• Rastafari movement ("social movement")
• April Crisis of 1917 ("mass protest")
• Coxey's Army march of 1894 ("protest march")
• Donghak Peasant Rebellion in Korea ("social movement")
• Stonewall riots ("protest movement")
• Direct Action Day
• Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965) ("civil rights protest")
• August Kranti ("mass protest")
• Niger Delta conflict ("social movement")
• railway protection movement ("protest campaign")
• Occupation of Alcatraz ("protest")
• Red Power movement ("social movement")
• Poor People’s Campaign ("protest movement")
• Samil Undong ("protest movement")
• 2019 Global Climate Strike ("climate strike")
• Jackson Movement (1960s civil rights campaign) ("civil rights campaign")
• hippie movement ("social movement")
• Satyagraha ("social movement method")
• Chauri Chaura incident ("protest")
• Tiananmen Square protests of 1976 ("protest movement")
• Charleston Tea Party
• Green March ("mass demonstration")
• Easter Aldermaston March ("anti-nuclear protest")
• Warsaw Uprising ("urban uprising")
• Indian nationalism ("social movement")
• Boston Massacre
• Black Lives Matter protests in London ("protest movement")
• temperance movement ("social movement")
• Marquette Park march ("civil rights demonstration")
• Poll Tax Riots ("protest movement")
• Black Power movement ("social movement")
• Baltic Way ("political demonstration")
• Pan-European Picnic ("peace demonstration")
• British reform movement ("social movement")
• Orange Revolution ("protest movement")
• Euromaidan ("protest movement")
• kibbutz movement ("social movement")
• Children's March ("civil rights protest")
• Nashville sit-ins ("civil rights protest")
• Merthyr Rising of 1831 ("labor protest")
• free software movement ("social movement")
• Esperanto movement ("social movement")
• Memphis sanitation workers' strike ("civil rights protest")
• Peterloo Massacre ("protest")
• Central Legislative Assembly bombing
• Ole Miss integration crisis ("civil rights conflict")
• University of Alabama integration crisis ("civil rights conflict")
• Newport Rising ("Chartist protest")
• Burntollet Bridge march January 1969 ("civil rights march")
• Time’s Up movement ("social movement")