The phrase "actual protests" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to real or genuine protests, distinguishing them from other forms of expression or dissent that may not involve physical demonstrations.
Example: "The report highlighted the actual protests that took place in the city, showcasing the voices of the demonstrators."
Alternatives: "genuine protests" or "real protests".
By arresting about 600 protesters and raiding their makeshift headquarters before any actual protests had begun, Washington's police have effectively trampled the constitutional right to free assembly.
Then we use the GSR database for actual protests to determine whether an on-street protest event actually took place (green dots).
"Battle in Seattle" shoehorns in television footage of the actual protests.
In secret groups on Facebook, artists and activists planned virtual and actual protests, and the line between the two blurred.
Rick Santelli, the CNBC reporter whose on-air suggestion of a "Chicago Tea Party" to protest President Obama's housing plan sparked an Internet sensation and a smattering of actual protests across the country, found himself on the defensive Monday.
There was Rebecca Solnit's Google Bus screed in the London Review of Books, and then the actual protests themselves.
Occupy Wall Street has had a big impact, even if actual protest seems like fringey nuisance.
Only when rules are so onerous that they stir actual protest do higher-ups take notice: "You guys are just making a mess of things," they'll tell their bureaucrat underlings.
Snow stressed that those outside the canopy of the store were in no way part of the actual protest and an application for costs from Fortnum running into tens of thousands of pounds was refused.
You started playing it as the police were storming in to break up the show… David: Yeah and then when they did pull the plug on us, the audience kept chanting 'rather be alive' over and over again, so that's when it became an actual protest.
It doesn't seem to have been the AFP or the parliamentary security services who let this rumour of what sounds more like a stunt than an actual protest go to their heads, but rather the speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, and the president of the Senate, Stephen Parry, who personally took the decision to segregate people wearing face coverings from the open public galleries based on the rumour.
