Nathanael

=Protesting through History=

Protest time-line

 * 1) **1857** began as a mutiny of sepoys of British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857 in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India
 * 2) **1905** Bloody Sunday was an incident on 22 January 1905 O.S. 9 January in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by the Imperial Guard.
 * 3) **1930** In early April, 1930 Gandhi, 61 years old, reached Dandi after walking 241 kilometers in 24 days. He then defied the law by making salt
 * 4)   On her way home from work one day in **1955,** Parks was told by a bus driver to surrender her seat to a white man. When she refused, she was arrested and fined, an action that motivated local black leaders to take action.
 * 5)    During the **1960s and 1970s**, the women's movement made considerable progress in elevating public awareness of inequalities between the sexes. A central player in the movement was the National Organization for Women (NOW), which was formed in 1966 by Friedan and other like-minded activists to promote womans rights through legislation. In the late 1960s NOW lobbied for the end of job discrimination and for government-supported child-care services for professional mothers. In 1972 NOW helped to secure support for Title IX of the Education Amendments Act, which required colleges to guarantee equal opportunities for women, and the equal rights amendment, which was passed by Congress but subsequently failed in the ratification process. The organization also sought the legalization of abortion, a goal achieved with the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe //vs.// Wade case of 1973.
 * 6)    **1960** the PAC mounted a new nonviolent campaign against the pass laws. At one such demonstration in the black township Sharpeville, the police opened fire on the crowd, killing more than 60 people and wounding more than 180.
 * 7)     In the late **1980s**, as the people of Czechoslovakia watched the changes sweeping through Eastern Europe and saw no improvement in their own economic and political situation, they began to call for reform. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev suggested that Czechoslovak Communist party head Milos Jakes consider reform, but the suggestion was rejected. The younger generations of Czechoslovaks who did not remember the Prague Spring reforms, the invasion of 1968, and the repression that followed were less cautious in calling for change. On Nov. 17, 1989, a peaceful student demonstration in Prague was violently put down by police. Two days later another, larger demonstration was scheduled, and Civic Forum—an unofficial, loose coalition of opposition groups—was formed. Civic Forum demanded the resignation of the Communist party leader, the end of the Communist party's leading role in society, freedom for the media, and democratization of the government.



Original protest methods
early protest tactics include marching eg Bloody Sunday or gandi boycot and civil disobedience

Recent protest methods
reacent protests range from the devstating terrosim eg 9/11 to riots , peaceful marches and demonstrations

=How would the early protesters feal about current protests=

the early protesters would be proud of what they set off and what ther acheived dispite the bad that has come out of some protest eg terroism ,roits and fights still the good that has come out of protest has freed many people and races they should be proud of what they have accomplished