Political dissent - Definition and Overview

Individual Rights

• Free speech, free press
• Soap box, Speaker's corner (Hyde Park), blog (weblog)
• prior restraint, censorship, self-censorship, censor
• Right to assembly
• Gay rights, Stonewall
• Feminism, ERA, equal pay, Title IX

Famous Political Dissenters

• Gandhi
• Steve Biko
• Nelson Mandela
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon papers
• Eugene McCarthy

General Topics

• free thinker
• Activist, Activism, political organizer, radical
• Dissident, political prisoner, prisoner of conscience
• Conscientious objector, pacifist, anti-war movement
• enlightenment, political awareness, sheeple
• civics, political science
• popular movements, populist, populism
• Investigative reporter, reformer, reform, muckraker, whistle blower
• schism, secession
• politically correct

Techniques

• protests, protesting, demonstrations, peace marches, protest marches
• Boycotts, sit-ins, riots, organizing committees, grassroots organizing
• Strike, general strike, street action
• bumper stickers, flyers, political posters
• Street theater, political puppets
• Burning in effigy
• Self-immolation (setting self on fire)
• Revolution, Revolt, Rebellion, Palestinian Intefadah (spelling?), Insurrection, popular uprising
• samisdat
• propaganda, counter-propaganda, slogans, sloganeering, meme

1960s

• Vietnam War protests, Kent State, Jane Fonda ("Hanoi Jane")
• 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago
• Paris 1968
• Nuclear war protests, mass action, peace sign
• Counter-culture, 1960s
• Generation gap, Silent Majority, Moral Majority
• Abbie Hoffman, Yippie, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
• Timothy Leary, "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out", communes, back to the land movement

Massacres

• Tiananmen Square, Democracy Wall Movement
• Sharpeville Massacre
• Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee, Ruby Ridge
• 228 Incident

Politics

• political party, faction, factionalism, splinter group, special interest group
• Green Party
• Third party, Third Party (United States)

Anti-Dissent

• House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), blacklisting, witch hunt
• Surveillance
• Secret police, secret trial, Star Chamber, torture, police brutality
• J. Edgar Hoover using FBI against political dissenters like King and Lennon
• Stalinism, Maoism, Gang of Four, Cultural Revolution
• Purges, Gulag, The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov
• Political re-education, thought crime
• Pinochet Chile
• Palmer raids
• Sedition Act (early US history), treason
• Authoritarianism, fascism, Orwell's 1984, Animal Farm

Protest songs, protest music

• John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Imagine
• Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan
• Phil Ochs
• Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant
• Eve of Destruction, Canned Heat (band)
• Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World, This Note's for You

Satire

• Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Dick Gregory
• Political satire, editorial cartoon
• Spitting Image, satire on TV, Saturday Night Live

Non-violence

• Student Non-Violent [?] Committee (SNIC)
• Jesse Jackson
• segregation, integration, busing, "separate but equal"
• Quakers
• Civil rights protests, Rosa Parks, Lunch counter sitins

Unclassified

• Suffragettes
• Ku Klux Klan
• Christian dissent, anti-abortion (pro-life movement)
• Gdansk Shipyard takeover, 1980, Lech Walesa
• Hungarian Revolt 1956, East German revolt (1950s), Prague Spring 1968
• Separatism, Quebec separatism, October crisis, Louis Riel, Basques
• Tibet
• Spartacus
• Socrates condemned to death by hemlock
• White backlash, reverse discrimination
• American Revolution, Boston Tea Party
• Greenpeace, Rainbow Warrior
• Anarchists vs. globalism
• PETA, animal liberation
• Earth Day
• Terrorism, freedom fighter
• eco-terrorism, Earth First, tree sitter, tree spiking
• Berlin Wall coming down, grafitti on it, the mass border crossings in Germany in 1989 (year?)