2003 GMO USDA protest

Protest expresses relatively overt reaction to events or situations: sometimes in favour, more often opposed. Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly and forcefully making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or may undertake direct action to attempt to directly enact desired changes themselves. Photo by Daniel Mayer. ... Photo by Daniel Mayer. ... Direct action is a method and a theory of stopping objectionable practices or creating more favorable conditions using immediately available means, such as strikes, boycotts, workplace occupations, sit-ins, or sabotage, and less oppositional methods such as establishing radical social centres, although these are often squatted. ...

Self-expression can, in theory, in practice or in appearance, be restricted by governmental policy, economic circumstances, religious orthodoxy, social structures, or media monopoly. When such restrictions happen, grumbles or interior opposition may spill over into other areas such as culture, the streets or emigration. A government (from the Greek Κυβερνήτης kubernites - steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder) is an organization that has the power to make and enforce laws for a certain territory. ... In economics, a monopoly (from the Greek monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a kind of product or service. ... The word culture comes from the Latin root colere (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor). ... Emigration is the action and the phenomenon of leaving ones native country to settle abroad. ...

Note: In American English, the verb protest often acts transitively: The students protested the policy. Elsewhere one can still find intransitive usage: The students protested against the policy; or: The students protested in favour of the policy.

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Historical examples

March 15, 2003, peace protest in Montreal

Unaddressed protest may grow and foster dissent, activism, riots, insurgency, revolts, and political and/or social revolution, as in: March 15 peace protests in front of Complexe Guy-Favreau in Montreal. ... March 15 peace protests in front of Complexe Guy-Favreau in Montreal. ... For the political magazine, see Dissent Magazine For the G8 protest group, see Dissent (network) Dissent is the sentiment of non-agreement with the majority, or the leader, of a group to which the dissenter is supposed to belong or to obey. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... Riots in Newark, New Jersey Riots occur when crowds of people have gathered and are committing crimes or acts of violence. ... This article is about revolution in the sense of a drastic change. ... A revolution is a relatively sudden and absolutely drastic change. ...

• Northern Europe in the early 16th century (Protestant Reformation)
• North America in the 1770s (American Revolution)
• France in 1789 (French Revolution)
• United States of America in the late 20th century (for example Stonewall riots)
• Serbia in 2000
• Argentina in 2001 (December 2001 Riots, Cacerolazos)

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Forms of protest

Protests can use shock value to draw attention.

Recognized forms of protest include: A picture of someone on a protest File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A picture of someone on a protest File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

• Boycott
• Bully pulpit
• Civil disobedience
• Some cases of culture jamming and graffiti
• Demonstration
• Flag desecration
• Satyagraha (non-violent protest)
• Occupation
• Peace camp
• Picketing
• Protest march
• Protest song
• Certain classes of publicity stunt
• Riot (sometimes protests lead to riots)
• Samizdat and zine
• Self-immolation
• Sit-in
• Sitdown strike
• Die-in
• Strike action
• Formation of a Tent City
• Rent strike

A boycott is a refusal to buy, sell, or otherwise trade with an individual or business who is generally believed by the participants in the boycott to be doing something morally wrong. ... Bully Pulpit is a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter; the American presidency is a bully pulpit. Thought of as an executive check on legislative powers. ... Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence. ... Culture jamming is the act of using existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original mediums communication method. ... Graffiti is a type of deliberately inscribed marking made by humans on surfaces, both private and public. ... This page is about protests. ... Flag desecration is a blanket term applied to various ways of intentionally defacing or dishonoring a flag, most often a national flag (though other flags are defaced as well). ... Satyagraha (Sanskrit: truth + grasp/hold) is the philosophy of non-violent resistance most famously employed by Mahatma Gandhi in forcing an end to the British Raj and also against apartheid in South Africa. ... Occupation may refer to: the principal activity (job or calling) that earns money for a person (see profession, business) the periods of time following a nations territory invasion by controlling enemy troops (see belligerent occupation) any activity that occupies an important portion of a persons attention (see fan... The first peace camp was the women only peace camp at Greenham Common, England set up in 1982. ... Employees of the BBC form a picket line during a strike in May 2005. ... A demonstration is the public display of the common opinion of a activist group, often economically, political, or socially, by gathering in a crowd, usually at a symbolic place or date, associated with that opinion. ... A protest song is a song intended to protest perceived problems in society: injustice, racial discrimination, war, globalization, inflation, social inequalities and so on. ... Brent Butt on a gas station sign A publicity stunt is a planned event designed to attract the publics attention to the promoters or their causes. ... Riots in Newark, New Jersey Riots occur when crowds of people have gathered and are committing crimes or acts of violence. ... Samizdat (self-published, in Russian самиздат) was a grassroots strategy to evade officially imposed censorship in the Soviet-bloc countries wherein people clandestinely copied and distributed government-suppressed literature or other media. ... Overview A zine—a contraction of the word magazine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ... Immolation is destruction by fire, that is, burning something to destroy it. ... A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for protest, often political, social, or economic change. ... A sitdown strike is a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at a factory or other centralized location, take possession of the workplace by sitting down at their stations, effectively preventing their employers from replacing them with scab labor or, in some cases... Die-In protest against 2003 invasion of Iraq in Sheffield, United Kingdom. ... Open battle between striking teamsters armed with pipes and the police in the streets of Minneapolis, 1934. ... Tent City is the name common to a series of organized shanty towns of homeless people in the greater Seattle, Washington, USA area. ...

See also

• Anti-globalization movement
• Global protests against war on Iraq from 2002 to 2004
• First Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
• UK fuel protest
• May 1968

Anti-globalization (anti-globalisation) is a political stance of opposition to the perceived negative aspects of globalization. ... Thousands of small and large global protests against war in general, the U.S. plan to invade Iraq and the war itself were held from 2002 to 2005. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ... The Unknown Rebel — This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widener, depicts a lone protester whose actions halted the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour. ... The fuel protest was a series of protests held in the United Kingdom in 2000 over the cost of petrol. ... May 1968 poster: Be young and shut up In May 1968 a general insurrection broke out across France. ...

External links

• High-tech protest at the 2004 Republican National Convention (http://www.alternet.org/story/19541/)
• Protests over the Rules in the German Wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_Diskussion:Neues_Meinungsbild_Urheberrecht&oldid=4963401)