Protest

Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or they may undertake direct action in an attempt to enact desired changes themselves.

One study found that nonviolent activism during the civil rights movement in the United States tended to produce favorable media coverage and changes in public opinion focusing on the issues organizers were raising, but violent protests tended to generate unfavorable media coverage that generated public desire to restore law and order.

[9] Unaddressed protests may grow and widen into civil resistance, dissent, activism, riots, insurgency, revolts, and political or social revolution.

Likelihood that someone will respond to a protest is also affected by group identification, and by the types of tactics involved.

Protests can express views or news, and use viral networking to reach out to thousands of people.

Stock prices fell an average of one-tenth of a percent for every paragraph printed about the event.

Demonstration against the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , during the Rio+20 conference in Brazil, June 2012
Demonstration in front of the MPR/DPR/DPD building in Jakarta during the 2019 Indonesian protests and riots
Gandhi leading his followers on the famous Salt March to abolish the British Salt Laws
Protesters in the middle of the road in downtown Manama, Bahrain (2011)
Protest in London over the Israel-Hamas war , October 2023
Crowds gather at the state funeral of Lee Han-yeol in Seoul, July 9, 1987
Protester with a "Free The Bee" placard during the COVID-19 protests in Berlin on 29th of August 2020, near the Brandenburg Gate
UCL , anarchist protest in France, on October 16th during the COVID-19 pandemic
March next to the Benito Juárez Hemicycle , 27 August 1968, Mexico City
Street protesters with signs demonstrating in Helsinki, Finland after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022
A protester photobombing a news reporter during a protest in New York City
TET passed candidates who are protesting over SSC scam in West Bengal , beneath the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Kolkata Maidan.
Black bloc members spray graffiti during an Iraq War Protest in Washington, D.C. [ 28 ]
The District of Columbia issues license plates protesting the " taxation without representation " that occurs due to its special status .
Protest inside the Wisconsin State Capitol
Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park using the Internet to get their message out over social networking as events happen, September 2011
Protest march in Palmerston North , New Zealand
Protesters outside the Oireachtas in Dublin , Republic of Ireland