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A protest is a public demonstration where people gather to express disagreement with a government, leader, or policy. Protests matter because they allow citizens to voice their concerns and advocate for change in a visible, organized way.
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- Historical examples
- Forms
- Typology
- Written demonstration
- Civil disobedience demonstrations
- As a residence
- Destructive
- Non-destructive
- Direct action
- Against a government
- Anti-war movements
- Against a planning application or development
- By government employees
- Job action
- In sports
- By management
- By tenants
- By consumers
- By ordinary citizens as bank depositors
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- Civil disobedience to censorship
- By Internet and social networking
- Literature, art and culture
- Against religious or ideological institutions
- Protest policing
- Economic effects against companies
- See also
- References
thumb|Demonstration against the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during the Rio+20 conference in Brazil, June 2012 thumb|Demonstration in front of the MPR/DPR/DPD building in [[Jakarta during the 2019 Indonesian protests and riots]]
A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public act of objection, disapproval or dissent against political advantage. Protests can be thought of as acts of cooperation in which numerous people cooperate by attending, and share the potential costs and risks of doing so. Protests can take many different forms, from individual statements to mass political 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 enact desired changes themselves. When protests are part of a systematic and peaceful nonviolent 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 civil resistance or nonviolent resistance.