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Protest

November 29, 2020 Jaskiran Gakhal, Participedia Team
November 4, 2019 Jesi Carson, Participedia Team
February 25, 2019 Scott Fletcher Bowlsby
October 10, 2018 Isadora
June 14, 2018 Lucy J Parry, Participedia Team
June 15, 2016 Scott Fletcher Bowlsby

A protest (also called a remonstrance, remonstration or demonstration) is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situations.

Problems and Purpose

Protests can take many different forms, from individual statements to mass demonstrations. Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or they may undertake direct action in an attempt to directly enact desired changes themselves.[2] Where protests are part of a systematic and peaceful campaign to achieve a particular objective, and involve the use of pressure as well as persuasion, they go beyond mere protest and may be better described as cases of civil resistance or nonviolent resistance.[1][3]

Origins and Development

Participant Recruitment and Selection

How it Works: Process, Interaction, and Decision-Making

Influence, Outcomes, and Effects

Analysis and Lessons Learned

See Also

George Floyd Protests

References

[1] Wikipedia Contributors, Protest, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest

[2] St. John Barned-Smith, "How We Rage: This Is Not Your Parents' Protest," Current (Winter 2007): 17-25. 

[3] Adam Roberts, Introduction, in Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash (eds.), Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 2-3, where a more comprehensive definition of "civil resistance" may be found. 

External Links

BBC - The People are Revolting - The History of Protest

Protest History or the History of Protest?

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