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Protest expresses relatively overt reaction to events or situations: sometimes in favor, though 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.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 occur, opposition may spill over into other areas such as culture, the streets or emigration.A protest can itself sometimes be the subject of a counter-protest. In such a case, counter-protesters demonstrate their support for the person, policy, action, etc. that is the subject of the original protest.// Historical notionsUnaddressed protest may grow and widen into dissent, activism, riots, insurgency, revolts, and political and/or social revolution, as in:Northern Europe in the early 16th century (Protestant Reformation)North America in the 1770s (American Revolution)France in 1789 (French Revolution)The Haymarket riot, 1886, a violent labor protest led by the Anarchist MovementMartin Luther King's 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a key moment in the Civil Rights MovementSOS (Save Our Sons) where moderate middle class women who would hold silent protest vigils-founded in 1965The Stonewall riots in 1969 protesting the treatment of homosexuals in New York CityThe Tiananmen Square protests of 1989The many ACT-UP AIDS protests of the late 1980s and early 1990sThe Seattle WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity against the World Trade OrganizationAnti-globalization Protests in Prague in 2000Serbia in 2000Feb. 15, 2003 Iraq War Protest - 6-10 million in 60 countries Forms of protestCommonly recognized forms of protest include: Public demonstration or political rallySome forms of direct action listed in this article are also public demonstrations or rallies.Protest march, a historically and geographically common form of nonviolent action by groups of people.Picketing, a form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in ("crossing the picket line"), but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause.Street protesters, characteristically, work alone, gravitating towards areas of high foot traffic, and employing handmade placards such as sandwich boards or picket sign's in order to maximize exposure and interaction with the public.Lock-downs are a way to stop movement of an object, like a structure or tree and to thwart movement of actual protestors from the location. Users employ various chains, locks and even the sleeping dragon for impairment of those trying to remove them with a matrix of composited materials.Die-ins are a form of protest where participants simulate being dead (with varying degrees of realism). In the simplest form of a die-in, protesters simply lie down on the ground and pretend to be dead, sometimes covering themselves with signs or banners. Much of the effectiveness depends on the posture of the protesters, for when not properly executed, the protest might look more like a "sleep-in". For added realism, simulated wounds are sometimes painted on the bodies, or (usually "bloody") bandages are used.Protest song is a song which protests perceived problems in society. Every major movement in Western history has been accompanied by its own collection of protest songs, from slave emancipation to women's suffrage, the labor movement, civil rights, the anti-war movement, the feminist movement, the environmental movement. Over time, the songs have come to protest more abstract, moral issues, such as injustice, racial discrimination, the morality of war in general (as opposed to purely protesting individual wars), globalization, inflation, social inequalities, and incarceration.Radical cheerleading The idea is to ironically reappropriate the aesthetics of cheerleading, for example by changing the chants to promote feminism and left-wing causes. Many radical cheerleaders (some of whom are male, transgender or non-gender identified) are in appearance far from the stereotypical image of a cheerleader.Experimental art is a form of protest in the sense that some of these works of art are censored or deemed inappropriate and are inherently protesting societal norms in one way or another. Experimental Art not censored or deemed inappropriate can still be considered protest because experimental concepts are not the societal norms, and challenge these norms inherently. These works of art, specifically those censored, make the statement “broader social change is needed in order to create an atmosphere accepting of this piece or style of art.” Written demonstrationWritten evidence of political or economic power, or democratic justification may also be a way of protesting.PetitionsLetters (to show political power by the volume of letters): For example, some letter writing campaigns especially with signed form letter Civil disobedience demonstrationsAny protest could be civil disobedience if a “ruling authority” says so, but the following are usually civil disobedience demonstrations:Public nudity or topfree (to protest indecency laws or as a publicity stunt for another protest such as a war protest) or animal mistreatment (e.g. PETA's campaign against fur)Sit-inRaasta roko (people blocking auto traffic with their bodies) As a residencePeace campFormation of a tent city DestructiveRiot - Protests or attempts to end protests sometimes lead to rioting.Self-immolationSuicideHunger strike Direct actionNonviolent resistanceOccupation Protesting a governmentTax resistanceConscientious objectorFlag desecration Protesting a military shipmentPort Militarization Resistance - protests which attempt to prevent military cargo shipments. By government employeesBully pulpitJudicial activism Job actionStrike actionSitdown strikeWalkoutwork-in In sportsDuring a sporting event, under certain circumstances, one side may choose to play a game "under protest", usually when they feel the rules are not being correctly applied. The event continues as normal, and the events causing the protest are reviewed after the fact. If the protest is held to be valid, then the results of the event are changed. Each sport has different rules for protests. By managementLockout By tenantsRent strike By consumersBoycottConsumer Court InformationInformative letters, letter writing campaigns, letters to the editorTeach-inZineSoapboxing Civil disobedience to censorshipSamizdat (distributing censored materials)Protest Graffiti Literature, art, cultureCulture jamming“Imagination is the chief instrument of the good…art is more moral than moralities. For the latter either are, or tend to become, consecrations of the status quo, reflections of custom, reinforcements of the established order. The moral prophets of humanity have always been poets even though they spoke in free verse or by parable…Art has been the means of keeping alive the sense of purposes that outrun evidence and of meanings that transcend indurated habit."-John DeweyJohn Dewey in this quote explains protest in its artistic form, but also expresses how transcending certain habits of different periods is of central necessity when undertaking protest in its various forms. Artistic protest can range from protest in literature, movies, music, painting, sculpture etc. The broad forms of artistic protest vary, as in music it can range from a backlash against a popular form of music, or musical minimalism that could be used to portray apathy towards a music type or music as an art form as a whole. For example, much of Sonic Youth’s music can be cited as a form of protest in that they use alternatives to the normative ways of making music that go directly against popular music and incorporate noise and guitar feedback in the writing process, and write songs relying heavily on personal innovation rather than personal interpretation and innovation that relies on pop artists, songs and styles. The importance of Art as protest can be summed up by Josh Lunkin from the book Invisible Suburbs:Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States. In this he states “The domestic containment era, sometimes defined as contiguous with the ‘long 1950s,’ was over by 1962. In that year, John Henry Faulk successfully sued the Red Hunters who had blacklisted him; Michael Harrington revealed the existence of poverty (The Other America); Stan Lee and Steve Ditko redefined the superhero as an impoverished wisecracking rebel (The Amazing Spider-Man); Old Left icon John Hammond signed Bob Dylan to Columbia Records…”The effects of such protest can be measured in the change continued from the liberal growth in the 1950s…liberalism remained the dominant paradigm in U.S. politics, peaking with the landslide victory of Lyndon B. Johnson over Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election. Lyndon Johnson had been a New Deal Democrat in the 1930s and by the 1950s had decided that the Democratic Party had to break from its segregationist past and endorse racial liberalism as well as economic liberalism. ReligiousRecusancy Economic effects of protests against companiesA study of 342 US protests covered by the New York Times newspaper in the period 1962 and 1990 showed that such public activities usually had an impact on the company's publicly-traded stock price. The most intriguing aspect of the study's findings is that what mattered most was not the number of protest participants, but the amount of media coverage the event received. Stock prices fell an average of one-tenth of a percent for every paragraph printed about the event. Protest and New Social MovementsOne feature of new so
Pokes fun at anti-gay forces, who usually protest against "activist judges," now asking courts to invalidate a 30-year-old law (passed by voter initiative!) that mandates the public disclosure of donors to political causes in the wake of anti-Prop 8 protests. SO Katie calls out their HYPOCRISY.Five fiftysomething women, who, four decades earlier, had marched against the Vietnam War together, protested nuclear testing together and tripped the psychedelic, free-loving fantastic together were going to break bread together for the first time since Woodstock.. But social networking site Facebook has become an important venue in the Arab world for protesting the Israeli campaignAs protests following the New Year's Day shooting death of 22-year old Oscar Grant by a BART officer continued to escalate in violence, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums appealed for calm.Why not provide them with bailout bucks? Is that industry any less immune to economic pressure? Is adult entertainment less an industry than say, any other industry in our country? Stop kidding yourselves, where are the protesterâs and rights activistsâ when you need them? Syria has withdrawn from the indirect peace negotiations with Israel in protest over Israel's actions in the Gaza.. They do not even print any pictures
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