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Widespread mass protest became a distinct characteristic of the late 20th and early 21st century American civic engagement, with the rate of mass protests rising exponentially since the mid 2010s thanks in part to the sudden and widespread availability of smartphones as well as the social media revolution allowing instant and widespread ...
This is a list of protests in the 21st century. Georgian colour revolution , named Rose revolution . Mass demonstrations in Avenue Habib Bourguiba during the Tunisian revolution that overthrew the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on 14 January 2011.
2021 – May 9 – June 2021, amid the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, the United States saw a rise in antisemitism, Anti-Arab racism and violence, as both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters took to the streets of major U.S. cities.
List of protests against the Vietnam War (1945-1973) 1968 Columbia University protests (Vietnam war links and a segregated gymnasium) Protests against the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021) Protests against the Iraq War (2003-2011) Protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis; Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States (2023-)
Stacker compiled images of student-led demonstrations from the past century to contextualize the history of protests on American college campuses.
The George Floyd protests are generally regarded as marking the start of the 2020 United States unrest. In Minneapolis–Saint Paul alone, the immediate aftermath of Floyd's murder was the second-most destructive period of local unrest in United States history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Size matters — at least when it comes to the size of our protests. Though final count is still being tabulated, researchers Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman of the Crowd Counting Consortium ...
Last month’s killing of a nonbinary activist known as “Tortuguita,” marked the first police killing of a demonstrator in the history of the U.S. environmental movement. The U.S. has a long ...