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Political dissent 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 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.
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Free speech ,
free press *
Soap box ,
Speaker's corner (
Hyde Park ),
blog (
weblog )
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prior restraint ,
censorship ,
self-censorship , censor
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Freedom of assembly *
Gay rights ,
Stonewall *
Feminism ,
ERA ,
equal pay ,
Title IX *
Gandhi *
Steve Biko *
Nelson Mandela *
Martin Luther King, Jr. *
Daniel Ellsberg ,
Pentagon papers *
Eugene McCarthy *
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
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Boycott s,
sit-in s,
riot s, organizing committees,
grassroots organizing
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Strike ,
general strike , street action
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Bumper sticker s, flyers, political
poster s
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Street theater , political puppets
*Burning in
effigy *
Self-immolation (setting self on fire)
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Revolution ,
Revolt ,
Rebellion ,
Palestinian Intifada ,
Insurrection , popular uprising
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Samisdat *
Propaganda , counter-propaganda,
slogan s, sloganeering,
meme *
Protests against the Vietnam War ,
Kent State ,
Jane Fonda ("Hanoi Jane")
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Make love not war *
1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
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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)
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Timothy Leary , "
Turn on, tune in, drop out ",
commune s,
back to the land movement
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Tiananmen Square ,
Democracy Wall Movement *
Sharpeville massacre *
Leonard Peltier ,
American Indian Movement ,
Wounded Knee ,
Ruby Ridge *
228 Incident *
Political party ,
political faction , factionalism, splinter group,
special interest group *
Green Party *
Third political party ,
Third party (United States) *
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
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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
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Palmer raids *
Sedition Act (early US history),
treason *
Authoritarianism ,
fascism , Orwell's 1984,
Animal Farm *
John Lennon ,
Yoko Ono ,
Imagine *
Pete Seeger ,
Bob Dylan *
Phil Ochs *
Woody Guthrie ,
Arlo Guthrie ,
Alice's Restaurant Eve of Destruction , Canned Heat (band)Neil Young 's Rockin' in the Free World , This Note's for You ''
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Lenny Bruce ,
George Carlin ,
Dick Gregory *
Political satire ,
editorial cartoon Spitting Image , satire on TV,
Saturday Night Live *
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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Jesse Jackson *
Segregation ,
integration ,
desegregation busing , "separate but equal"
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Quakers *
Civil rights protests,
Rosa Parks ,
Lunch counter sitins *
Suffragettes *
Ku Klux Klan *Christian dissent, anti-abortion (pro-life movement)
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Gdańsk Shipyard takeover, 1980,
Lech Wałęsa *Hungarian Revolt 1956, East German revolt (1950s), Prague Spring 1968
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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?)
