political protest

C379
concept

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.

All labels observed (71)

Label Occurrences
social movement 289
protest movement 83
political protest canonical 46

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: political protest
Generated description
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.

Instances (561)

Instance Via concept surface
1963 Buddhist crisis protest movement
Kent State shootings
Samyukta Maharashtra movement social movement
Greensboro sit-ins civil rights protest
Soweto Uprising protest movement
Salt March nonviolent protest
1977 Egyptian Bread Riots protest movement
Aldermaston Marches anti-nuclear protest
Aldermaston Marches to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment anti-nuclear protest march
Battle of Cable Street anti-fascist demonstration
Soviet Jewry movement social movement
Let My People Go movement social movement
anti-apartheid movement social movement
Haymarket affair labor protest
King Street, Boston
surface form: Boston Massacre
American patriot movement social movement
Chicago Freedom Movement civil rights campaign
Cedar Revolution protest movement
George Patten
surface form: 1938 National Day of Mourning
Boston Tea Party
Dalit Buddhist movement social movement
British abolitionist movement social movement
Project C (Confrontation) civil rights campaign
Children's Crusade
surface form: Children's Crusade (1963)
civil rights protest
Free Speech Movement student protest movement
Gwangju Uprising mass protest
May 18 Democratic Uprising mass protest
New Atheism social movement
Connor
surface form: Birmingham campaign
civil rights campaign
Cummeragunja walk-off protest
prison abolition movement social movement
American civil rights movement social movement
Montgomery bus boycott civil rights protest
Solidarność social movement
Language Movement of 1952 protest movement
Islamism social movement
Regulator Movement social movement
Back-to-Africa movement social movement
Italian student movement social movement
May 1968 protests in France protest movement
Columbia University protests of 1968 student protest
Telangana movement social movement
Assam Movement social movement
1968 Democratic National Convention protests protest movement
Chartism social movement
Zoot Suit Riots civil disturbance
Vieques protests social movement
Battle of the Bogside civil disturbance
Hunger strikes of 1981 protest
Northern Ireland civil rights movement social movement