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Your American History Reference Guide!
- Political dissent
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Political dissent
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
Famous Political Dissenters
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
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 Intefadah (spelling?), Insurrection, popular uprising
- samisdat
- propaganda, counter-propaganda , slogans, sloganeering, meme
- 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
Massacres
Politics
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
Satire
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?)
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