Anti-government protestersOpposition parties: Government of Romania Political support: Marian MunteanuCorneliu CoposuRadu CâmpeanuSergiu Cunescu Miron CozmaIon IliescuPetre Roman The Golaniad (Romanian: Golaniada pronounced [ɡolaniˈada], from the word golan meaning "hoodlum") was a protest in Romania in the University Square, Bucharest.

After the peaceful demonstration, groups of people marched towards the Romanian Television (TVR) station, calling for its political independence.

The leadership of the National Salvation Front realized that the protests grew too big to be able to repress them with impunity, so it focused on demonizing them in the state-controlled media.

[7] This part of the media called the protesters "delinquents", "hooligans", "parasites", "thieves", "extremists", "fascists", "traitors", etc.

The protesters also composed their own hymn, "Imnul Golanilor": The song may be translated into English as: Many intellectuals supported the protests, including writers such as Octavian Paler, Ana Blandiana, Gabriel Liiceanu, Stelian Tănase, and film director Lucian Pintilie.

[10] The protesters also disagreed with the official doctrine of the FSN that the Revolution was only "anti-Ceaușescu" and not "anti-Communist" (as Silviu Brucan declared in an interview given to the British newspaper The Guardian).