Essays on Protest

Twenty-year-old Anna Dovgalyuk posted a YouTube video of herself pouring bleach on the crotches of men sitting with their legs far apart on public transport. Dovgalyuk stated that the solution will leave ‘an unwashable stain’ and claimed that it was an act of protest against…

After years of growing resentment over Ortega’s abuse of power, the president’s decision to implement social security reforms that raised taxes while reducing pension benefits was the final straw. On April 18, peaceful demonstrations, led by elderly individuals, university students, and other activists, erupted throughout…

One of the actors of the film “Everyday Rebellion” – Srđa Popović, is an activist of the Serbian movement “Otpor” (Resistance). This was a movement supporting the destruction of the regime of Slobodan Milošević. In 2003, after a short political career in Serbia he established…

On June 1989 in Beijing, China, what started as a protest at whose treatment grew in momentum, emboldened, the protestors wrote a list of demands where they poured onto Tiananmen Square. About a hundred-thousand students and workers had defied their dictator, all camped out near…