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- | '''Civil disobedience''' encompasses the active refusal to [[obey]] certain [[law]]s, demands and commands of a [[government]] or of an occupying [[power (international)|power]] without resorting to physical violence. It could be said that it is [[compassion]] in the form of respectful disagreement. Civil disobedience has been used in [[nonviolent resistance]] movements in [[India]] ([[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi's]] social welfare campaigns and campaigns to speed up independence from the British Empire), in [[South Africa]] in the fight against [[apartheid]], and in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]]. | + | A '''protest''' is an expression of objection, by words or by actions, to particular events, policies or situations. 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.<ref>St. John Barned-Smith, "How We Rage: This Is Not Your Parents' Protest," ''Current'' (Winter 2007): 17-25.</ref> 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]]. |
- | The [[United States|American]] author [[Henry David Thoreau]] pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay ''[[Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)|Civil Disobedience]]''. | + | |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
- | + | * [[Activist Wisdom]] | |
- | '''Ideas''' | + | * [[Anti-globalization]] |
* [[Civil resistance]] | * [[Civil resistance]] | ||
- | * [[Conscientious objection]] | + | * [[Fare strike]] |
- | * [[Direct action]] | + | * [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]] |
- | * [[Draft resistance]] | + | * [[Gandhigiri]] |
- | * [[Examples of civil disobedience]] | + | * [[I Protest]] |
- | * [[Insubordination]] | + | * [[Police]] |
- | * [[Nonconformism]] | + | * [[Port Militarization Resistance]] |
- | * [[Nonviolence]] | + | * [[Protest art]] |
- | * [[Nonviolent resistance]] | + | * [[Public Library Advocacy]] |
- | * [[Tax resistance]] | + | * [[Right to protest]] |
- | * [[Tree sitting]] | + | * [[Satyagraha]] |
- | * [[Hunt saboteur|Hunt sabotage]] | + | * [[Social criticism]] |
- | + | * [[Tactical frivolity]] | |
- | '''Groups''' | + | * [[List of uprisings led by women]] |
- | * [[Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)]] | + | |
- | * [[Abalone Alliance]] and [[Clamshell Alliance]], anti-nuclear power groups | + | |
- | * [[Righteous Among the Nations]] | + | |
- | ** [[Le Chambon-sur-Lignon]], French bread town | + | |
- | * [[The White Rose]] | + | |
- | * [[Trident Ploughshares]], anti-nuclear weapons group | + | |
- | * [[Defiance Campaign]], anti-apartheid campaign in South Africa. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | '''People''' | + | |
- | * [[Mohandas Gandhi]] | + | |
- | ** ''[[Satyagraha]]'' | + | |
- | * [[Martin Luther King, Jr.|Dr Martin Luther King, Jr]] | + | |
- | ** ''[[Letter from Birmingham Jail]]'' | + | |
- | * [[John Lennon]] | + | |
- | * [[Rosa Parks]], "mother of the civil rights movement" | + | |
- | * [[James Bevel]], the Strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement | + | |
- | * [[Dalai Lama]] | + | |
- | * [[Henry David Thoreau]] | + | |
- | * [[Lech Wałęsa]] | + | |
- | * [[Dorothy Day]] co-founder of Catholic Worker Movement | + | |
- | * [[Philip Berrigan]] former Josephite priest and nonviolent activist | + | |
- | * [[Daniel Berrigan]] Jesuit priest and nonviolent activist | + | |
- | * [[Sousveillance]], passive campaign against [[surveillance]] | + | |
- | * [[Václav Havel]] | + | |
- | * [[Anna Hazare]], 2011 Civil Disobedience in India for [[Jan Lokpal Bill]] (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) | + | |
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A protest is an expression of objection, by words or by actions, to particular events, policies or situations. 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.<ref>St. John Barned-Smith, "How We Rage: This Is Not Your Parents' Protest," Current (Winter 2007): 17-25.</ref> 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.
See also
- Activist Wisdom
- Anti-globalization
- Civil resistance
- Fare strike
- First Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Gandhigiri
- I Protest
- Police
- Port Militarization Resistance
- Protest art
- Public Library Advocacy
- Right to protest
- Satyagraha
- Social criticism
- Tactical frivolity
- List of uprisings led by women