Political dissent
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Individual rights
- Free speech, free press
- Soap box, Speaker's corner (Hyde Park), blog (weblog)
- prior restraint, censorship, self-censorship, censor
- Right to assembly
- Gay rights, Stonewall
- Feminism, ERA, equal pay, Title IX
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Famous political dissenters
- Gandhi
- Steve Biko
- Nelson Mandela
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon papers
- Eugene McCarthy
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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
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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
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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
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Massacres
- Tiananmen Square, Democracy Wall Movement
- Sharpeville Massacre
- Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee, Ruby Ridge
- 228 Incident
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Politics
- Political party, faction, factionalism, splinter group, special interest group
- Green Party
- Third party, Third Party (United States)
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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
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Protest songs, protest music
- John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Imagine
- 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
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Satire
- Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Dick Gregory
- Political satire, editorial cartoon
- Spitting Image, satire on TV, Saturday Night Live
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Non-violence
- Student Non-Violent [?] Committee (SNIC)
- Jesse Jackson
- Segregation, integration, busing, "separate but equal"
- Quakers
- Civil rights protests, Rosa Parks, Lunch counter sitins
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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?)
