The phrase "protest something" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when someone wants to express disapproval or disagreement with something. For example, "Many people protested the new law that increased taxes on lower-income families."
Every day people take buses up there to protest something.' It's boring.
There is a vast difference between gathering in such numbers to protest something deemed politically unacceptable and burning cars after the loss of a hockey game.
A dear old friend of mine used to say, "It is easy to protest something from which one does not derive a living".
The public editor receives as many as 300 messages on a typical day, and the total can spike into the thousands if a blogger or one of the media watchdog sites urges its followers to protest something the paper has published.
Although he opposes the Bush administration's prospective invasion of Iraq, Mr. Mortensen said he wore the shirt to protest something that hit even closer to home -- the interpretation he keeps hearing of the new movie, which opens Wednesday, as both an allegory and an endorsement of the invasion.
Maybe someone will decide to protest something.
If you weren't protesting something, what were you doing?
"If I see people protesting something, I want to protest them".
"We are always protesting something," Brahim Abeid, a gregarious IRA vice-president, said.
With most fasting, you're not eating because you're protesting something.
An array of talking and gesticulating middle-aged representatives sit at wooden desks with microphones while scruffy young people who seem to be protesting something come and go from the open middle area.
