Top Ten - Protests in recent times
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Often times, peaceful protesters get rowdy and start havoc because of being treated unjustly
by police and other opposing forces.
There have been many big and bloody demonstrations in history with colossal mass involvement
which have certainly pole-shifted our lives from what it used to be and changed our ideas
about life as we know it today.
Some of the historical protests are being carried out as we speak, hence here we have
ten of the biggest protests that man-kind has ever seen.
10. Indian anti-corruption movement (2011)
The movement was a pile of protests and demonstrations that swept India almost over-night. According
to Time Magazine the anti-corruption movement in India was among the Top Ten News stories
of 2011. The movement was led by many influential leaders among which Hazare & Baba Ramdev supporters
stood out the most.
9. Irish Protests (2008-2013)
The movement started in the year 2008, when Ireland officially declared it had gone into
recession, and the budget being ëíthe toughest in many yearsíí as labeled by the Irish
government. The budget included many controversial measures such as a proposed income levy which
was eventually restructured.
8. Chilean Student Protests (2011-2012)
The protesters being the students mostly are in demand of a new framework for education
in the country that provided more direct state participation in secondary education and an
end to the existing profit-motive in higher education.
7. Colombian Student Protests (2011)
The protest began as a direct reaction against the planned reform on the countryís education
system. A protest carried out on the 24th of November, 2011 together with Chilean students
was announced the first bi-national protest for education in history.
6. Malawian Protests (2011)
The Malawi Protests started with a proposition of winning the political and economic reforms
or concessions from the government of Malawi. In the month of July, Malawian organizations
protested against the poor economic management and the carefree governance by the President
Bingu wa Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party.
5. Protest against the War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
The War in Afghanistan has given way to many large protests around the world in countries
like Australia, Canada, France, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States. The war, as
we all know, led by the United States has yet resulted in 140,000 foreign military troops
being sent to war, billions of dollars being used to fuel the war and has reported a number
of 31,000 people being killed by the war, along with approx. 3000 foreign troops.
4. Arab Spring (2010-present)
Civil uprisings and major protests have shaken the governments in countries like Bahrain,
Syria, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco and Sudan. Countries like Mauritania, Oman
and Saudi Arabia are catching up with the revolutionary wave of protests and demonstrations.
3. Turkish Protests (2013)
A series of protests and demonstrations against the freedom of the press, freedom of expression,
freedom of assembly, and the governmentís encroachment on Turkeyís secularism that
started on May, 2013, initially sparked to detest the urban development plan for Istanbulís
Taksim Gezi Park.
2. Brazilian Protests (2013)
The Brazilian Spring demonstrations were started to protest against the increases in bus, train
and metro ticket prices in many Brazilian cities, but however it grew to include other
issues such as police brutality.
1. The Occupy Movement (2011-present)
A world-wide demonstration against the so called 1% and global social and economic inequality,
the Occupy movement is an international protest movement aiming to make the economical and
political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly distributed.
