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
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
Politics
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
Satire
Non-violence
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 1992
See also
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