Editing Protest (section)

==Historical examples==
[[File:Marche sel.jpg|thumb|Gandhi leading his followers on the famous [[Salt March]] to abolish the [[History of the salt tax in British India|British Salt Laws]]]]
[[File:4bahrain22011.jpg|thumb|Protesters in the middle of the road in downtown Manama, Bahrain (2011)]]
[[File:London Palestine Protest Equestrian Statue Whitehall.jpg|thumb|Protest in London over the [[Gaza war]], October 2023]]
[[File:고 이한열 추모 군중.jpg|thumb|Crowds gather at the state funeral of [[Lee Han-yeol]] in Seoul, July 9, 1987]]
Unaddressed protests may grow and widen into [[civil resistance]], dissent, activism, riots, [[insurgency]], revolts, and political or social revolution. Some examples of protests include:
* Northern Europe in the early 16th century ([[Protestantism|Protestant]] [[Reformation]])
* North America in the 1770s ([[American Revolution]])
* [[Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783]], an anti-government protest by several hundred soldiers of the [[Continental Army]] 
* France in 1789 ([[French Revolution]])
* Haiti in 1803 ([[Haitian Revolution]]), the first successful black revolution against slavery
* The [[Haymarket affair]] in 1886, a violent labor protest led by the [[Anarchism in the United States|Anarchist Movement]]
* [[New York shirtwaist strike of 1909]]
* [[Mohandas Gandhi|Mohandas Gandhi's]] 1930 [[Salt March]] to protest the [[History of the British salt tax in India|colonial salt tax in India]]
* 1963 [[Birmingham Campaign|Birmingham Children's Crusade]], part of the [[civil rights movement]].
* 1963 [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]], a key moment in the Civil rights movement
* [[Selma to Montgomery marches]] of 1965, part of the Civil Rights Movement
* [[List of protests against the Vietnam War|Protests against the Vietnam War]]
* [[Mexico 68]]
* The [[Takeover of Vanha]] in [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]] in 1968
* The [[Stonewall riots]] in 1969, protesting the treatment of homosexuals in New York City
* The [[People Power Revolution]] in the [[Philippines]]
* 1976 Thai military personnel, police and right wing nationalistic milita [[6 October 1976 massacre|shooting at peaceful protesters]] the Thammasat University of Thailand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secretsiam.news/p/october-6|title = 6ตุลา}}</ref> 
* The [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)]] Movement's protests against Soviet Communism in Poland from 1980 to 1989.
* [[June Democratic Struggle]], South Korean pro-democracy movement in 1987
* The [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]]
* The [[Alexanderplatz]] demonstrations from November 4–9, 1989, which culminated in the [[Fall of the Berlin Wall]]
* The many [[AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power|ACT-UP]] [[AIDS]] protests of the late 1980s and early 1990s
*Japanese Canadians Protest of their [[Internment of Japanese Canadians#Protest|Dispossession]]
* The [[Seattle]] [[WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity]] against the [[World Trade Organization]]
* [[Anti-globalization Protests in Prague|Anti-globalization protests in Prague]] in 2000
* [[S11 (protest)|S11- Anti World Economic Forum]] protests in Melbourne, 2000<ref>{{Cite web |last=Irwin |first=Jamie |date=2021-08-13 |title=S11: Australians Blockade World Economic Forum |url=https://commonslibrary.org/australians-blockade-world-economic-forum-2000/ |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref>
* Anti-globalization protests in [[Genoa]] from 18 to 22 July 2001
* [[February 15, 2003 anti-war protest|15 February 2003 Iraq War Protest]]
* [[Anti-nuclear protests]]
* [[2007 Bersih rally]]
* [[2010 Thai political protests]]
* [[2011 Iranian protests]]
* [[Arab Spring]] protests
* [[Impact of the Arab Spring]]
* [[Occupy protest|Occupy Wall Street protests]]
* [[Bersih]] Malaysia protests
* [[Gezi Park protests]] in 2013 in Turkey
* [[June 2013 Egyptian protests]]
* [[Euromaidan]] protests in [[Ukraine]], November 2013–February 2014
* [[Black Lives Matter]]-led protests on July 13, 2013
* [[Sunflower Student Movement]]
* [[Add the Words]] gay and transgender rights protests in Idaho in 2014.
* [[2014 Hong Kong protests|2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement]]
* [[2016 South Korean protests]]
* [[2017 Jallikattu protests]]
* [[2017–2019 Romanian protests]] 
* [[Dakota Access Pipeline protests]]
* 2018 [[Tommy Robinson]] protests 
* 2018 [[Sadiq Khan]] [[Protests against Donald Trump|protests]]
* [[March for Our Lives]] protests
* [[2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution]]
* [[2018–2019 Sudanese protests]]
* [[2018–2020 Serbian protests]]
* [[2019 Venezuelan protests]]
* [[2019 Indonesian protests and riots|2019 Indonesian protests]]
* [[2019 Bolivian protests]]
* [[2019–20 Hong Kong protests]]
* [[Citizenship Amendment Act protests]]
* [[2019–20 Lebanese protests]]
* [[2019–2021 Iraqi protests]]
* [[George Floyd protests]]
* [[2020–21 Belarusian protests]]
* [[Protests over responses to the COVID-19 pandemic]].  
* [[COVID-19 protests and riots in Serbia]]
* [[2020 Thai protests]]
* [[2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest]]
* [[2020–2021 United States election protests]]
* [[Mahsa Amini protests]]
* [[Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine]]
* [[Peruvian protests (2022–2023)]]
* [[2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation]]
* [[July Revolution (Bangladesh)]]
* [[2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests]]