Political dissent
==Individual rights==
* Free speech, free press
* Soap box, Speaker's corner ( Hyde Park, London), blog ( weblog)
* prior restraint, censorship, self-censorship, censor
* Right to assembly
* Gay rights, Stonewall
* Feminism, ERA, equal pay, Title IX
==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, protesting, demonstrations, peace marches, protest marches
* 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==
* Vietnam War protests, Kent State, Jane Fonda ("Hanoi Jane")
* 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago
* Paris 1968
* Nuclear war protests, 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, faction, factionalism, splinter group, special interest group
* Green Party
* Third 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 (song) ''
* 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''
==Satire==
* Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Dick Gregory
* Political satire, editorial cartoon
*'' Spitting Image'', satire on TV, '' Saturday Night Live''
== Non-violence==
*Student Non-Violent [?] Committee ( SNIC)
* Jesse Jackson
* Segregation, integration, 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)
* Gdansk Shipyard takeover, 1980, Lech Walesa
*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, grafitti on it, the mass border crossings in Germany in 1989 (year?)
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