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Yippies carried out demonstrations in the streets outside the 1968 Democratic Convention. Chicago Police attacked them. Anti-War Protesters were trying to influence the Democratic Convention to choose a Peace Candidate to end the war in Vietnam which had escalated rapidly under LBJ.
Most of the protesters in the middle ages were peasants because they were sick of the way they were being treated. There were more of the peasants than anyone else so it made it easier for them to protest and eventually revolt.
Military conscription.
By taking part in demonstrations
They burned their draft cards.
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when people be on the look out for protesters.
Protesters protest about freedom of assembly because they feel strongly about this subject. The right to assemble and protest is a right that American feel strongly about and exercise when ever they choose to let others know how they feel about a subject.
The protesters are not in control of how their events are interpreted.
they arrested the protesters
A peaceful protest is simply a demonstration of a belief without violence. Picketing is one of the most common, as is a petition.
The anti-war protesters of the Vietnam era had a personal stake in their protest...they might get drafted! Today's protester doesn't have that personal stake.
Yippies carried out demonstrations in the streets outside the 1968 Democratic Convention. Chicago Police attacked them. Anti-War Protesters were trying to influence the Democratic Convention to choose a Peace Candidate to end the war in Vietnam which had escalated rapidly under LBJ.
People can protest in a dictatorship in the same way that they would protest any other form of government. Typically, a dictatorship has stricter laws prohibiting various types of protest, and therefore protesters would have to violate the law.
The first amendment gives people the freedom of speech. Protest is freedom of speech.
A brutally suppressed public protest is when armed forces (army, police) use force to disperse the protesters - causing some deaths and injury to some protesters.