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Demonstration in Warsaw against the 2004 World Economic Forum. This article lists significant demonstrations by the anti-globalization movement against corporate globalization since 1999, including the convergence of anti-globalization actions with opposition to the United States-led Iraq War beginning in 2003 and continuing through the end of George W. Bush's presidency in 2009.
Occupy Nigeria is an anti-fuel subsidy removal protest that started in Nigeria on 2 January 2012 in response to fuel subsidy removal by the Federal government of Nigeria on 1 January 2012. It is a movement against corruption in Government & public service, insensitive & inhuman treatment of Nigerians by Government & Security agents.
Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Protest in Rome on 7 June 2020 Protest against the Polish government led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party 2017–2018 Russian protests School Strike for Climate in Vicenza, Italy, 15 March 2019. Anti-Japanese protests 2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations; 2012 China anti-Japanese ...
The global Occupy movement.; The May–July 2011 Greek protests, also known as the "Indignant Citizens Movement" or the "Greek indignados", started demonstrating throughout Greece on 25 May 2011; [6] the movement's largest demonstration was on 5 June, with 300,000 people gathering in front of the Greek Parliament, [7] while the organizers put the number to 500,000. [8]
For example, some see the World Bank and the IMF as corrupt bureaucracies which have given repeated loans to dictators who never do any reforms. Some, like Hernando De Soto, argue that much of the poverty in the Third World countries is caused by the lack of Western systems of laws and well-defined and universally recognized property rights. De ...
The Canadian anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters initiated the call for a protest. [8] The main issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector.
The ultimate goal of the general strike, according to Industrial Workers of the World theory, is to displace capitalists and give control over the means of production to workers. [95] [96] In a 1911 speech in New York City, IWW organiser Bill Haywood explained his view of the economic situation, and why he believed a general strike was justified,
Government-organized demonstrations are demonstrations which are organized by a government. The Islamic Republic of Iran, [4] [5] the People's Republic of China, [6] Republic of Cuba, [7] the Soviet Union [8] and Argentina, [9] among other nations, have had government-organized demonstrations.