Student protest
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Student protest encompasses a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academic issue and mobilization to communicate this dissatisfaction to the authorities (university or civil or both) and society in general and hopefully remedy the problem. Protest forms include but are not limited to: sit-ins, occupations of university offices or buildings, strikes etc. More extreme forms include suicide such as the case of Kostas Georgakis' protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
[edit] See also
- Academic Crisis
- Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989
- Student strike
- Kent State shootings
- Protests of 1968
- Bucharest student movement of 1956
- Athens Polytechnic uprising
- 1996–1997 protests in Serbia
- Iran student protests, July 1999
- 2005 Quebec student strike
- 2006 student protests in Chile
- 2006 student uprising in Iran
- The Great Butter Rebellion
- Civil disobedience
- Strike action
