Visit any branch of Topshop this weekend and you'll see a curious thing: T-shirts seeming to mock this winter's student protests – the very student protests of which Topshop was a principal target.
Of course, the very reason protests exist in the first place tends to be that some pressing social concern is making life less liveable for people – from gentrification to police violence.
In Sofia they meet in front of the presidential palace at 7pm and slowly walk to parliament, accompanied by whistles, drums and cries of "Resign!"Justine Toms, a Bulgarian online marketing specialist, was part of the very first protest.
As this example indicates, the very ecological protest against the ruthless capitalist exploitation of natural resources is already caught in the commodification of experiences: although ecology perceives itself as the protest against the virtualisation of our daily lives and advocates a return to the direct experience of sensual material reality, ecology itself is branded as a new lifestyle.
The very name "Protestant" suggests a protest movement aimed at the reform of a church that now bears the name of Roman Catholicism.
At the very moment that protests over these legislative actions appeared to be gaining ground among US elected officials, the Department of Justice raised the stakes by taking the domain names of the Megaupload file-sharing site offline and charging its founders with violating piracy laws.
It shows through in the very names of protest surges: three of the best-known protest surges of the last century were the May 4th Movement (1919), the May 30th Movement (1925), and the June 4th Movement (1989).
The prosecution's claims rewrote the entire history of the very grassroots 2011-2012 protest movement, alleging that Udaltsov and Razvozzhaev had stoked violence at Moscow protests using American money that they'd received from a Georgian politician.
At the very least, the protest has united people from disparate factions of the co-op.
Dylan, irritated and more than a little out of it, objected to the question's premise and called one of his new rock 'n' roll compositions the very height of protest music: "Very, very protesty.
