Among the most popular visual symbols chosen by the various local groups are the raised fist, a traditional emblem of protest dating from ancient Assyria, and a contemporary motif, the hashtag, an accountancy mark, which was recently reinvented as a Twitter identification tag.
Hong Kong has a long tradition of public protest, dating back to the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square.
Self-immolation, or the act of setting oneself on fire, is an extreme method of protest dating back to ancient India that activists has been used to protest unfair labor practices.
The protests date to the refusal by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to stand for the anthem before NFL preseason games.
There is a well-designed timeline of recent protests dating to the Arab Spring and continuing through the demonstrations in Wisconsin and protests in Europe.
The pad protests date to when Bill Parcells was coaching the Giants to Super Bowl wins in the 1986 and '90 seasons.
The trade union, with about half a million members in a country of more than 10 million, has a history of political protests dating to the fight against the French colonial power here.
The protests date to 1992 when the United Nations passed a sweeping, but nonbinding, 100-plus-page resolution called Agenda 21 that was designed to encourage nations to use fewer resources and conserve open land by steering development to already dense areas.
On February 4th, with a month left before the election, some hundred thousand Muscovites came out for the largest protest to date, a march down Yakimanka Street to Bolotnaya Square.
