Gandhi's satyagraha became a major tool in the Indian struggle against British imperialism and has since been adopted by protest groups in other countries.
They have formed new coalitions like Tribe X and Lost Voices to demand police accountability, and adopted a protest style that is more disruptive than many older activists are comfortable with.
Indeed, if everything Jesus said on the Sermon on the Mount is true -- a message that King, to his peril, adopted in protest of the Vietnam War -- there'd be no need for wars, war budgets or military industrial complexes.
In the course of time this became white, a tacit relaxation of the primitive austerity adopted as a protest against "luxury".
Thai protesters, as the Thai military have announced the ban of a three finger salute a symbol of protest adopted from the popular book and film series The Hunger Games.
The slogan Black Lives Matter – adopted by a protest movement that has spread across the US since the fatal police shooting last August of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, which sparked two bouts of rioting last year – was emblazoned on a neon sign outside the church.
All the child detainees interviewed by HRW were arrested on suspicion of being involved in stone throwing — a form of protest adopted by Palestinian youths during the first Intifada, that has killed at least 14 people — while two were also accused of more serious offenses; carrying a knife and throwing a Molotov cocktail at a Jewish settlement.
Sudan's political forces and activists, who are mainly from the educated middle classes, were as surprised as the government by the numbers on the streets and quickly tried to adopt the protests as the "revolution" they had long dreamed of.
Mr. Boehner ignored the protests, pressing ahead by saying the rules would be adopted "without objection," even as the crowd continued to roar its disapproval.
The nation's top court annulled constitutional changes adopted during mass protests in 2006, opening the door to a new standoff between Parliament and President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
