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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 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.

Individual rights

Free speech, free press
Soap box, Speakers' Corner, blog (weblog)
Prior restraint, censorship, self-censorship, censor
Freedom of assembly
Feminism, ERA, equal pay, Title IX
Gay rights, Stonewall

Famous political dissenters

Gandhi

Steve Biko

Nelson Mandela

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon papers

Eugene McCarthy

General Topics

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 movements, populist, populism

Investigative reporter, reformer, reform, muckraker, whistle blower

Schism, secession

Politically correct

Techniques

Protests, demonstrations, peace march, protest march

Boycotts, sit-ins, riots, organizing committees, grassroots organizing

Strike, general strike, street action

Bumper stickers, flyers, political posters

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, slogans, sloganeering, meme

1960s

Protests against the Vietnam War, Kent State shootings, 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", communes, back-to-the-land movement

Massacres

Tiananmen Square, Democracy Wall Movement

Sharpeville massacre

Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee, Ruby Ridge

228 Incident

Politics

Political party, political faction, factionalism, splinter group, special interest group

Green Party

Third political party, Third party (United States)

Anti-dissent

House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), blacklisting, 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

Purges, 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

Protest songs, protest music

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

Punk rock
Satire

Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Dick Gregory

Political satire, editorial cartoon

Spitting Image, satire on TV, Saturday Night Live
Non-violence

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Jesse Jackson

Segregation, integration, desegregation busing, "separate but equal"

Quakers

Civil rights protests, Rosa Parks, Lunch counter sitins
Unclassified

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

Anarchists 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?)

Charter 77 informal civic initiative in Czechoslovakia from 1977 to 1992Further Information
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