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Political dissent refers to any expression designed to convey dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a governing body. Such expression may take forms from vocal disagreement to civil disobedience
Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power , without resorting to physical violence....
 to the use of violence
Violence

Violence is the expression of physical force against self or other, compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt. Variant uses of the term refer to the destruction of non-living objects ....
. 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.








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Political dissent refers to any expression designed to convey dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a governing body. Such expression may take forms from vocal disagreement to civil disobedience
Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power , without resorting to physical violence....
 to the use of violence
Violence

Violence is the expression of physical force against self or other, compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt. Variant uses of the term refer to the destruction of non-living objects ....
. 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.

Individual rights

  • Free speech, free press
    Free Press

    Free Press may refer to:*Freedom of the press*Free Press , a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded by media critic Robert McChesney to promote more democratic media policy in the United States...
  • Soap box, Speakers' Corner
    Speakers' Corner

    A Speakers' Corner is an area where public speaking is allowed. The original and most noted is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park, London in London, England....
    , blog
    Blog

    A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
     (weblog)
  • Prior restraint
    Prior restraint

    Prior restraint is a legal term referring to a government's actions that prevent materials from being published. Censorship that requires a person to seek governmental permission in the form of a license or imprimatur before publishing anything constitutes prior restraint every time permission is denied....
    , censorship
    Censorship

    Censorship is the suppression of freedom of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor....
    , self-censorship
    Self-censorship

    Self-censorship is the act of censorship or Classified Information one's own work , out of fear or deference to the sensibilities of others without an authority directly pressuring one to do so....
    , censor
  • Freedom of assembly
    Freedom of assembly

    Freedom of assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right to come together with other individuals and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests....
  • Feminism
    Feminism

    Feminism is the belief that women should have equal political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights to men. It involves various movements, Theory, and philosophies, all concerned with issues of gender difference, that advocate equality for women and that campaign for women's rights and interests....
    , ERA
    Equal Rights Amendment

    The Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed Article Five of the United States Constitution to the United States Constitution which was intended to guarantee Women's rights under the law for United States regardless of sex....
    , equal pay, Title IX
    Title IX

    Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, now known as the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act in honor of its principal author, but more commonly known simply as Title IX, is a United States law enacted on June 23, 1972 that states: "No person in the United States shall judge on the basis of sex, be denied the be...
  • Gay rights, Stonewall
    Stonewall

    Stonewall may refer to a stone wall, or to the word's meaning as a verb, "to refuse to cooperate, especially in supplying information", or to any of the following:...


Famous political dissenters

  • Gandhi
  • Steve Biko
    Steve Biko

    Stephen Bantu Biko was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population....
  • Nelson Mandela
    Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in a universal suffrage democratic election, serving in the office from 1994?99....
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. was an United States pastor, activist and prominent leader in the African-American African-American Civil Rights Movement ....
  • Daniel Ellsberg
    Daniel Ellsberg

    Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a Classified information The Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers....
    , Pentagon papers
    Pentagon Papers

    The Pentagon Papers, officially titled United States?Vietnam Relations, 1945?1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, were a Classified information#Top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967....
  • Eugene McCarthy
    Eugene McCarthy

    Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy was an American politician, poet, and a long-time member of the Congress of the United States from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971....


General Topics

  • Free thinker
  • Activist, Activism
    Activism

    Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social change or politics change. This action is in support of, or opposition to, one side of an often controversy argument....
    , political organizer, radical
  • Dissident
    Dissident

    A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When individual dissidents unite in a common cause they may become known as a dissident Political movement....
    , political prisoner
    Political prisoner

    A political prisoner is someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, for his or her involvement in Politics....
    , prisoner of conscience
    Prisoner of conscience

    Prisoner of conscience is a term coined by the human rights group Amnesty International in the early 1960s. It can refer to anyone imprisoned because of their Race , religion, human skin color, language, sexual orientation, belief, or lifestyle so long as they have not used or advocated violence....
  • Conscientious objector
    Conscientious objector

    A conscientious objector is an individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war or, in some cases, to take any role that would support a combatant organization armed forces....
    , pacifist, anti-war movement
  • Enlightenment
    Enlightenment (concept)

    Enlightenment broadly means wisdom or understanding enabling clarity of perception. However, the English language word covers two concepts which can be quite distinct: religion or spiritual enlightenment and secular or intellectual enlightenment....
    , political awareness, sheeple
    Sheeple

    Sheeple is a term of disparagement, a portmanteau created by combining the words "sheep" and "people ."It is often used to denote persons who voluntarily acquiesce to a perceived authority, or suggestion without sufficient research to fully understand the scope of the ramifications involved in that decision, and thus undermine their own hum...
  • Civics
    Civics

    Civics is the study of citizenship and government with particular attention given to the role of citizens? as opposed to external factors? in the operation and oversight of government....
    , political science
    Political science

    Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior....
  • Popular movement
    Popular Movement

    The Popular Movement is a conservative liberalism party in Morocco.The party is a full member of Liberal International, which it joined at the latter's Dakar Congress in 2003....
    s, populist
    Populism

    Populism is a discourse which supports "the people" versus "the elites." Populism may involve either a philosophy urging social and political system changes and/or a rhetorical style deployed by members of political or social movements competing for advantage within the existing party system....
    , populism
    Populism

    Populism is a discourse which supports "the people" versus "the elites." Populism may involve either a philosophy urging social and political system changes and/or a rhetorical style deployed by members of political or social movements competing for advantage within the existing party system....
  • Investigative reporter, reformer
    Reformer

    Reformer may refer to:*Catalytic reformer, a unit in an oil refinery that reforms lighter hydrocarbons into higher octane molecules and hydrogen...
    , reform
    Reform

    Reform means beneficial change, or sometimes, more specifically, reversion to a pure original state.Reform is generally distinguished from revolution....
    , muckraker
    Muckraker

    A muckraker is an individual who seeks to expose or reveal the real or apparent corruption of businesses or governments to the public. The term originates from members of the Progressive movement in America who wanted to expose the corruption and scandals in government and business....
    , whistle blower
  • Schism
    Schism (religion)

    The word schism , from the Greek language s??s?a, skh?sma , means a split or a division, usually in an organization or a movement. A schismatic is a person who creates or incites schism in an organization or who is a member of a splinter group....
    , secession
    Secession

    Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity. It is not to be confused with succession, the act of following in order or sequence....
  • Politically correct
    Politically Correct

    Politically Correct may refer to:*Political correctness, language, ideas, policies, or behaviour seeking to minimize offence to groups of people...


Techniques

  • Protest
    Protest

    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 desi...
    s, demonstrations
    Demonstration (people)

    A demonstration is a form of nonviolent action by groups of people in favor of a political or other cause, normally consisting of walking in a march and a meeting to hear speakers....
    , peace march, protest march
  • Boycott
    Boycott

    A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some other organization as an expression of protest, usually of politics reasons....
    s, sit-in
    Sit-in

    A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change....
    s, riot
    Riot

    A riot is a form of civil disorder characterized by disorganized groups lashing out in a sudden and intense rash of violence, vandalism or other crime....
    s, organizing committees, grassroots
    Grassroots

    A grassroots movement is one driven by the constituent of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it is natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures....
     organizing
  • Strike
    Strike action

    Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform labour . A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances....
    , general strike
    General strike

    A general strike is a strike action by a critical mass of the labour in a city, region or country. While a general strike can be for political goals, economic goals, or both, it tends to gain its momentum from the ideological or Social class sympathies of the participants....
    , street action
  • Bumper sticker
    Bumper sticker

    A bumper sticker is an adhesive label or sticker with a message, intended to be attached to the Bumper of an automobile and to be read by the occupants of other vehicles - although they are often stuck onto other objects....
    s, flyers, political poster
    Poster

    A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both typography and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly textual....
    s
  • Street theater, political puppets
  • Burning in effigy
    Effigy

    An effigy is a representation of a person, especially in the form of sculpture.The term is usually associated with full-length figures of a deceased person depicted in stone or wood on church monuments....
  • Self-immolation
    Self-immolation

    Self-immolation is often used to refer to suicide by fire. The Latin root of immolate means sacrifice, rather than referring to burning, so more generally self-immolation means suicide without specifying the method....
     (setting self on fire)
  • Revolution
    Revolution

    A revolution is a fundamental social change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time....
    , Revolt, Rebellion
    Rebellion

    Rebellion is a refusal of obedience. It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors from civil disobedience and mass nonviolent resistance, to violent and organized attempts to destroy an established authority such as the government....
    , Palestinian Intifada
    Intifada

    Intifada is an Arabic Language word which literally means shaking off, though it is generally translated into English as rebellion or uprising....
    , Insurrection, popular uprising
  • Samisdat
  • Propaganda
    Propaganda

    Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to Objectivity providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience....
    , counter-propaganda, slogan
    Slogan

    A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commerce, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose....
    s, sloganeering, meme
    Meme

    A meme is a unit or element of culture ideas, symbols or practices; such units or elements transmit from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena....


1960s

  • Protests against the Vietnam War
    Protests against the Vietnam War

    Protests against the Vietnam War took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The protests were part of a movement in opposition to the Vietnam War and took place mainly in the United States...
    , Kent State shootings
    Kent State shootings

    The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by members of the Ohio Army National Guard on Monday, May 4 1970....
    , Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
     ("Hanoi Jane")
  • Make love not war
    Make love not war

    Make love not war is an anti-war slogan commonly associated with the United States counterculture of the 1960s. It was used primarily by those who were Opposition to the Vietnam War, but has been invoked in other anti-war contexts since....
  • 1968 Democratic National Convention
    1968 Democratic National Convention

    The 1968 Democratic National Convention of the USA Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, from August 26 to August 29, 1968....
     in Chicago
  • Paris 1968
  • Nuclear war protests: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
    Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

    The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain. It also campaigns for international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty....
    , "Ban the Bomb", mass action, peace sign
  • Counter-culture, 1960s
  • Generation gap
    Generation gap

    The generation gap is a popular term used to describe big differences between people of a younger generation and their elders. This can be defined as occurring "when older and younger people do not understand each other because of their different experiences, opinions, habits and behavior"....
    , Silent Majority, Moral Majority
    Moral Majority

    The Moral Majority was a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelism Christianity-oriented political lobbying....
  • Abbie Hoffman
    Abbie Hoffman

    Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a social and political activism in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party . Later he became a fugitive from the law, living under an alias and working as an enviromentalist following a conviction for dealing cocaine....
    , Yippie, Students for a Democratic Society
    Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)

    Students for a Democratic Society was, historically, a student activism movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left....
     (SDS)
  • Timothy Leary
    Timothy Leary

    Timothy Francis Leary was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space....
    , "Turn on, tune in, drop out
    Turn on, tune in, drop out

    "Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture phrase coined by Timothy Leary in the 1960s. The phrase came to him in the shower one day after Marshall McLuhan suggested to Leary that he come up with "something snappy" to promote the benefits of LSD....
    ", commune
    Commune (intentional community)

    A commune is an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, employment and income....
    s, back-to-the-land movement


Massacres

  • Tiananmen Square
    Tiananmen Square

    Tiananmen Square is the large plaza near the center of Beijing, People's Republic of China, named after the Tiananmen which sits to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City....
    , Democracy Wall Movement
  • Sharpeville massacre
    Sharpeville massacre

    The Sharpeville Massacre, also known as the Sharpeville shootings, occurred on March 21, 1960, when South African police began shooting on a crowd of Black protesters....
  • Leonard Peltier
    Leonard Peltier

    Leonard Peltier is an American activist and member of the American Indian Movement who was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two FBI Agents who were killed during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
    , American Indian Movement
    American Indian Movement

    The American Indian Movement , is an Native Americans in the United States activist organization in the United States. AIM burst onto the international scene with its Bureau of Indian Affairs building takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and the 1973 Wounded Knee incident, South Dakota, on the P...
    , Wounded Knee
    Wounded Knee

    Wounded Knee can refer to:* Wounded Knee Creek* Wounded Knee, South Dakota* Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890* Wounded Knee incident of 1973In literature:...
    , Ruby Ridge
    Ruby Ridge

    Ruby Ridge was the site of a violent confrontation and siege in the United States of America state of Idaho in 1992. It involved Randy Weaver, his family, Weaver's friend Kevin Harris, special agent from the United States Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation....
  • 228 Incident
    228 Incident

    The 228 Incident, also known as the 228 Massacre, was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan that began on 1947-02-27 and was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang government....


Politics

  • Political party
    Political party

    A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
    , political faction
    Political faction

    A political faction is a grouping of individuals, especially within a political organization, such as a political party, a trade union, or other group with a political purpose....
    , factionalism, splinter group, special interest group
    Special Interest Group

    In technical fields, a Special Interest Group is a community with a particular interest in a specific technical area. Members of a SIG cooperate to effect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and often meet regularly, particularly at business conference....
  • Green Party
  • Third political party, Third party (United States)
    Third party (United States)

    The term third party is used in the United States for a political party in the United States other than one of the two major parties, at present, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party ....


Anti-dissent

  • House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), blacklist
    Blacklist

    A blacklist is a list or register of persons who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition....
    ing, witch-hunt
    Witch-hunt

    A witch hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and mob lynching, but in historical instances also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials....
  • Surveillance
    Surveillance

    Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior. Systems surveillance is the process of monitoring the behavior of people, objects or processes within systems for conformity to expected or desired Norm in trusted systems for security or social control....
  • Secret police
    Secret police

    Secret police are a police agency which operates in secrecy to maintain national security against internal threats to the state.Secret police forces are typically associated with totalitarianism regimes, as they are often used to maintain the political power of the state rather than uphold the rule of law....
    , secret trial
    Secret trial

    A secret trial is a trial that is not public trial, nor reported in the news. Generally no official record of the case or the judge's verdict is made available....
    , Star Chamber
    Star Chamber

    The Star Chamber was an England court of law that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster until 1641. It was made up of Privy Counsellors, as well as common-law judges, and supplemented the activities of the common-law and equity courts in both civil and criminal matters....
    , torture
    Torture

    Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:In addition to state-sponsored torture, individuals or groups may be motivated to inflict torture on others for similar reasons to those of a state; however, the motive for torture can also be for the sadism gratification of the torturer, as was the case in the Moors M...
    , police brutality
    Police brutality

    Police brutality is the intentional use of excessive force, usually physical, but potentially also in the form of verbal attacks and psychological intimidation, by a police officer....
  • J. Edgar Hoover
    J. Edgar Hoover

    John Edgar Hoover , generally known as J. Edgar Hoover, was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States....
     using FBI against political dissenters like King and Lennon
  • Stalinism
    Stalinism

    File:Joseph Stalin.jpgStalinism is a term that purportedly describes the political system of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1929?1953....
    , Maoism
    Maoism

    Maoism, variably and officially known as Mao Zedong Thought , is a variant of Marxism derived from the teachings of the late People's Republic of China leader Mao Zedong , widely applied as the political and military guiding ideology in the Communist Party of China from Mao's ascendancy to its leadership until the inception of Deng Xi...
    , Gang of Four
    Gang of Four

    The Gang of Four was the name given to a leftist political faction composed of four Communist Party of China officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution and were subsequently charged with a series of treasonous crimes....
    , Cultural Revolution
    Cultural Revolution

    The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the People?s Republic of China was a period of widespread social and political upheaval that led to nation-wide chaos and economic disarray, which would engulf much of Chinese society between 1966 and 1976....
  • Purge
    Purge

    In history and political science, a purge is the removal of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, from another organisation, or from society as a whole....
    s, Gulag
    Gulag

    The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. Gulag is the Russian acronym for The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies of the NKVD....
    , The Gulag Archipelago
    The Gulag Archipelago

    The Gulag Archipelago is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three-volume book is a massive narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a GULAG labor camp....
     by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russians novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system, and for these efforts Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974....
    , Andrei Sakharov
    Andrei Sakharov

    Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was an eminent Soviet Union Nuclear physics physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union....
  • Political re-education, thought crime
  • Pinochet Chile
  • Palmer raids
    Palmer Raids

    The Palmer Raids were a series of controversial raids by the United States Department of Justice and Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1919 to 1921 on suspected Far left citizens and immigrants in the United States, the legality of which is now in question....
  • Sedition Act
    Sedition Act

    Sedition Act may refer to:*Alien and Sedition Acts, including the Sedition Act of 1798, laws passed by the United States Congress*Sedition Act 1661, an English statute that largely relates to treason...
     (early US history), treason
    Treason

    In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of loyalty to one's sovereignty or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife ....
  • Authoritarianism
    Authoritarianism

    Authoritarianism describes a form of government characterized by an emphasis on the authority of the state in a republic or union. It is a political system controlled by nonelected rulers who usually permit some degree of individual freedom....
    , fascism
    Fascism

    Fascism is a Political radicalism, Authoritarianism Nationalism ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or Race ....
    , Orwell's 1984, Animal Farm


Protest songs, protest music

  • John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
    , Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
    , Imagine
    Imagine (song)

    "Imagine" is a song written and performed by John Lennon, which first appeared on his 1971 in music album, Imagine . It was released as a single in the same year, and reached number three in the U.S....
  • Pete Seeger
    Pete Seeger

    Peter "Pete" Seeger is an United States folk singer, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 50s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene" that topped the charts f...
    , Bob Dylan
  • Phil Ochs
    Phil Ochs

    Philip David Ochs was a United States protest song and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice....
  • Woody Guthrie
    Woody Guthrie

    Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an United States singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, Traditional music and children's songs, ballads and improvised works....
    , Arlo Guthrie
    Arlo Guthrie

    Arlo Davy Guthrie is an United States folk music singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings protest song against social injustice....
    , Alice's Restaurant
    Alice's Restaurant

    "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" is one of singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie's most prominent works, a musical monologue based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving 1965, and which inspired a 1969 in film of the same name....
  • Eve of Destruction, Canned Heat
    Canned Heat

    Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists....
     (band)
  • Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
    's     Rockin' in the Free World
    Rockin' in the Free World

    "Rockin' in the Free World" is a song by Neil Young, released on his 1989 album Freedom . Two versions of the song were released, similar to the song "Hey Hey, My My " of Young's Rust Never Sleeps album, one of which is performed with a predominantly acoustic arrangement, and the other with a predominantly electric arrangement....
    , This Note's for You
    This Note's for You

    This Note's for You is an album originally credited to Neil Young and the Bluenotes, released in 1988. Most of the album's concept centered around the commercialism of rock and roll, and tours in particular ....
  • Punk rock
    Punk rock

    Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....


Satire

  • Lenny Bruce
    Lenny Bruce

    Lenny Bruce , born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an United States stand-up comedian, writer, Cultural critic and satire of the 1950s and 1960s....
    , George Carlin
    George Carlin

    George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedy. He was also an actor and author, and he won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums....
    , Dick Gregory
    Dick Gregory

    Dick Gregory is an United States comedian, social activist, writer and entrepreneur.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dick Gregory is an influential United States comic who has used his performance skills to convey to both white and black audiences his political message on civil rights....
  • Political satire
    Political satire

    Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly forbidden....
    , editorial cartoon
    Editorial cartoon

    An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration or comic strip containing a politics or social message, that usually relates to current events or personalities....
  • Spitting Image
    Spitting Image

    Spitting Image was a United Kingdom satire puppet show which ran on the ITV television network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television....
    , satire on TV, Saturday Night Live
    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....


Non-violence

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC was one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s....
     (SNCC)
  • Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Jackson

    Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an American civil rights activism and Baptist Minister of religion. He was a candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as "shadow senator" for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997....
  • Segregation
    Racial segregation

    File:Segregated cinema entrance3.jpgRacial segregation is the separation of different Race s in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a drinking fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home....
    , integration
    Racial integration

    Racial integration, or simply integration includes desegregation . In addition to desegregation, integration includes goals such as leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of Race , and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely bringing a racial minority into the m...
    , desegregation busing
    Desegregation busing

    Desegregation busing in the United States is the practice of attempting to integrate schools by assigning students to schools based primarily on race, rather than geographic proximity....
    , "separate but equal"
  • Quakers
  • Civil rights
    Civil rights

    Civil and political rights are a class of rights ensuring things such as the protection of peoples' physical integrity; procedural fairness in law; protection from discrimination based on sexism, religious intolerance, Racism, Homophobia, etc; individual freedom of freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom...
     protests, Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activism whom the Congress of the United States later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day African-American Civil Rights Movement ."...
    , Lunch counter sitins
    Greensboro sit-ins

    The Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in American history....


Unclassified

  • Suffragettes
  • Ku Klux Klan
    Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan is the name of several past and present secret domestic militant organizations in the United States, originating in the southern states and eventually having national scope, that are best known for advocating white supremacy and acting as terrorists while hidden behind conical hats, masks and white robes....
  • Christian dissent, anti-abortion (pro-life movement)
  • Gdansk
    Gdansk

    Gdansk is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship....
     Shipyard takeover, 1980, Lech Walesa
    Lech Walesa

    Lech Walesa is a Poland politician and a former trade union and human rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity , the Eastern bloc first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995....
  • Hungarian Revolt 1956, East German revolt (1950s), Prague Spring 1968
  • Separatism
    Separatism

    Separatism refers to the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial or gender separation from the larger group, often with demands for greater political Autonomous entity and even for full political secession and the formation of a new state....
    , Quebec separatism, October crisis, Louis Riel
    Louis Riel

    Louis David Riel was a Politics of Canada, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the M?tis people people of the Canadian prairies....
    , Basques
    Basque nationalism

    Basque nationalism is a political movement advocating for either further political autonomy or, chiefly, full independence of the Basque Country ....
  • Tibet
    Tibet

    Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
  • Spartacus
    Spartacus

    Spartacus , according to Roman historians, was a slave and gladiator who became the leader in the somewhat successful slave uprising against the Roman Republic known as the Third Servile War....
  • Socrates
    Socrates

    Socrates was a Classical Greece Philosophy. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known only through the classical accounts of his students....
     condemned to death by hemlock
    Conium

    Conium is a genus of two species of highly poisonous Perennial plant herbaceous flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to Europe and the Mediterranean region , and to southern Africa ....
  • White backlash, reverse discrimination
    Reverse discrimination

    Reverse discrimination is, in its simplest form, the practice of favoring members of a historically disadvantaged group at the expense of members of a historically advantaged group....
  • American Revolution
    American Revolution

    The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then rejected the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America....
    , Boston Tea Party
    Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against the Kingdom of Great Britain in which they destroyed many crates of tea belonging to the British East India Company and dumped it into the Boston Harbor....
  • Greenpeace
    Greenpeace

    Greenpeace is an international non-governmental organization for the protection and conservation of the environment. Greenpeace utilizes direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals....
    ,     Rainbow Warrior
    Rainbow Warrior (1978)

    The Rainbow Warrior was a former UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Commercial trawler later purchased by the environmental pressure group Greenpeace....
  • Anarchists vs. globalism
    Globalism

    Globalism is a belief system that emphasizes the current trend toward international organizations and institutions. In Politics, Globalism can also be defined as being Pro-Globalization....
  • PETA
    Peta

    Peta can refer to:* peta-, an SI prefix denoting a factor of 1015* Peta, Greece, a town in Greece* Peta, the Pali word for a Preta, or hungry ghost in Buddhism...
    , animal liberation
    Animal Liberation

    Animal liberation may refer to:*Abolitionism *Animal Liberation *Animal Liberation Front*Animal liberation movement*Animal rights...
  • Earth Day
    Earth Day

    Earth Day is one of two observances, both held annually during spring in the northern hemisphere, and autumn in the southern hemisphere. These are intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's environment....
  • Terrorism
    Terrorism

    Terrorism, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, is the systematic use of terror, "violent or destructive acts committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands." At present, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism....
    , freedom fighter
    Freedom fighter

    "Freedom fighter" is a term for those engaged in an armed struggle, the main cause of which is to achieve, in their or their supporters' view, freedom for themselves or obtain freedom for others....
  • Eco-terrorism
    Eco-terrorism

    Eco-terrorism, also called ecoterrorism or green terrorism, is terrorism committed in support of political ecology, environmentalism, or animal rights causes....
    , Earth First, tree sitter, tree spiking
    Tree spiking

    | |}Tree spiking is a form of sabotage which involves hammering a metal rod or other material into a tree trunk in order to discourage logging....
  • Berlin Wall
    Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall was a physical separation barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic , including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany....
     coming down, graffiti on it, the mass border crossings in Germany in 1989 (year?)
  • Charter 77
    Charter 77

    Charter 77 was an informal civic initiative in Czechoslovakia from 1977 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were V?clav Havel, Jan Patocka, Zdenek Mlyn?r, Jir? H?jek, and Pavel Kohout....
     informal civic initiative in Czechoslovakia from 1977 to 1992


See also

  • Dissident
    Dissident

    A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When individual dissidents unite in a common cause they may become known as a dissident Political movement....
  • List of Chinese dissidents
    List of Chinese dissidents

    This list consists of these activists who are known as Chinese dissidents.There are also a large number of Chinese who claim to be dissidents and seek to defect, usually to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand....
  • The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
    The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

    The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot is the most recent book released by author Naomi Wolf.Referenced in April 2007 in her The Guardian article titled Fascist America in Ten Steps, The End of America argues that events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the twentieth centur...