The phrase "a means of protest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method or way in which individuals express their dissent or opposition to something.
Example: "The march was organized as a means of protest against the new legislation that many felt was unjust."
Alternatives: "a method of protest" or "a form of protest".
His research interests include Soviet jazz, music as a means of protest, Post-Soviet aesthetics, cultural ideology, nostalgia, and propaganda.
Many students also stayed away as a means of protest over their demands that India make good on promises to allow a referendum on self-rule in Kashmir.
As with the Belarus Free Theatre, using performance as a means of protest threatened to become a matter of life and death.
Meryl Streep plays Pankhurst, the co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, who undertook hunger strikes and advocated property destruction as a means of protest.
He cites Wikipedia, Flickr, blogs and flash mobs (used in former Soviet states as a means of protest) as examples of this un-organised organisation.
Kaepernick started kneeling during the national anthem as a means of protest, to draw attention to the killings of unarmed black people by police.
With a mounting toll of 69 self-immolations, at least 56 of them fatal, many Tibetans are asking themselves why their Han Chinese brethren seem unmoved by the suffering — or are at least uninterested in exploring why so many people have embraced such a horrifying means of protest.
Conservative candidates swept the municipal council elections last year because reformist supporters stayed away from the polls as a means of protesting the lack of change in Iran.
Invoked in a struggle against the King as a means of protesting his power as arbitrary, Magna Carta seemed irrelevant once independence had been declared: the United States had no king in need of restraining.
This has given the work a powerfully generative force: offering to help Sulkowicz with her burden is not just a gesture of simple human empathy, like helping a mother struggling with a stroller on the subway stairs, but has become a means of protesting sexual violence and expressing solidarity with those who have experienced it.
The Governor, a conservative Republican who had opposed selling off securities as a means of protesting South Africa's racial policies, made a switch last week, two days before the University of California's Board of Regents decided Friday to divest the university's portfolio of all holdings in South Africa-related stocks.
