refers to any expression designed to convey dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a governing body. Such expression may take forms ranging from vocal disagreement to Civil Disobedience to the use of Violence . Historically, repressive governments have sought to punish political dissent. The protection of freedoms that facilitate peaceful dissent has become a hallmark of free and open societies.
- Free Speech , Free Press
- Soap Box , Speaker's Corner ( Hyde Park ), Blog ( Weblog )
- Prior Restraint , Censorship , Self-censorship , Censor
- Freedom Of Assembly
- Gay Rights , Stonewall
- Feminism , ERA , Equal Pay , Title IX
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- Free Thinker
- Activist , Activism , political organizer, Radical
- Dissident , Political Prisoner , Prisoner Of Conscience
- Conscientious Objector , Pacifist , Anti-war Movement
- Enlightenment , political awareness, Sheeple
- Civics , Political Science
- Popular Movement s, Populist , Populism
- Investigative Reporter , Reformer , Reform , Muckraker , Whistle Blower
- Schism , Secession
- Politically Correct
- Protest s, Demonstration s, Peace March , protest march
- Boycott s, Sit-in s, Riot s, organizing committees, Grassroots organizing
- Strike , General Strike , street action
- Bumper Sticker s, flyers, political Poster s
- Street Theater , political puppets
- Burning in Effigy
- Self-immolation (setting self on fire)
- Revolution , Revolt , Rebellion , Palestinian Intifada , Insurrection , popular uprising
- Samisdat
- Propaganda , counter-propaganda, Slogan s, sloganeering, Meme
- Protests Against The Vietnam War , Kent State , Jane Fonda ("Hanoi Jane")
- Make Love Not War
- 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
- Paris 1968
- Nuclear war protests: Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament , "Ban the Bomb", mass action, Peace Sign
- Counter-culture , 1960s
- Generation Gap , Silent Majority , Moral Majority
- Abbie Hoffman , Yippie , Students For A Democratic Society (SDS)
- Timothy Leary , " Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out ", Commune s, Back To The Land movement
- House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), Blacklist ing, Witch Hunt
- Surveillance
- Secret Police , Secret Trial , Star Chamber , Torture , Police Brutality
- J. Edgar Hoover using FBI against political dissenters like King and Lennon
- Stalinism , Maoism , Gang Of Four , Cultural Revolution
- Purge s, Gulag , '' The Gulag Archipelago '' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Andrei Sakharov
- Political Re-education , Thought Crime
- Pinochet Chile
- Palmer Raids
- Sedition Act (early US history), Treason
- Authoritarianism , Fascism , Orwell's 1984, ''Animal Farm''
- Suffragettes
- Ku Klux Klan
- Christian dissent, anti-abortion (pro-life movement)
- Gdańsk Shipyard takeover, 1980, Lech Wałęsa
- Hungarian Revolt 1956, East German revolt (1950s), Prague Spring 1968
- Separatism , Quebec Separatism , October Crisis , Louis Riel , Basques
- Tibet
- Spartacus
- Socrates condemned to death by Hemlock
- White backlash, Reverse Discrimination
- American Revolution , Boston Tea Party
- Greenpeace , '' Rainbow Warrior ''
- Anarchist s vs. Globalism
- PETA , Animal Liberation
- Earth Day
- Terrorism , Freedom Fighter
- Eco-terrorism , Earth First , Tree Sitter , Tree Spiking
- Berlin Wall coming down, graffiti on it, the mass border crossings in Germany in 1989 (year?)
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