SING OUT AGAINST OPPRESSION

650BC Messenian helots (serfs) revolt against Spartan rule | 464BC Helot uprising following a Spartan earthquake | 165BC Maccabean Revolt, a Jewish rebellion in Jerusalem | 1381 The Peasants' Revolt in England against high taxation | 1517 Martin Luther pins his 95 Theses, protesting Church practices | 1773 Boston protests British tea taxes | 1789 The French Revolution begins; Women's March on Versailles | 1819 Widespread protests in Britain for parliamentary reform and against high unemployment | 1842 General Strike in Britain, involving over 500,000 workers protesting pay cuts | 1888 Matchgirls' Strike in London against harsh working conditions | 1905 Bloody Sunday in Russia, sparking widespread uprising | 1906 Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) march | 1913 Women's Suffrage Procession in the USA | 1915-1917 Glasgow Scotland, workers organized the Clyde Workers' Committee to fight against industrial conscription, the Munitions of War Acts, and better wages | 1914-1918 Periodic waves of anti-war protest often led by women against food rationing and the war took place throughout Europe | 1915 Forced marches of the Armenian population during the Ottoman Empire resulting in the Armenian Genocide | 1917 Silent Parade, in response to racial violence and lynchings, it is estimated 15,000 African Americans marched silently down Fifth Avenue in New York City; demonstrations were held in London to support the Russian Revolution | 1919 Chicago Race Riot, known as the "Red Summer", was period of intense racial conflict in the United States | 1915-1920 Anti-German Riots following the sinking of the Lusitania, riots and protests targeted businesses with German-sounding names across the UK | 1920 Iraqi Revolt led an uprising against British occupation in Mesopotamia National Unemployed Workers' Movement (NUWM) | 1920 The Blind March, organized by the trade union National League of the Blind, 250 blind people marched across the UK to London to protest poor working conditions, culminating in a 10,000-person rally in Trafalgar Square and leading to the creation of the Blind Persons Act | 1926 General Strike, nationwide strikes where workers demonstrated their power | 1922-1930 Hunger Marches, unemployed workers and ex-servicemen marched on London to protest insufficient benefits | 1920 German Revolution Protests | 1930 International Unemployment Day coordinated by the Communist International, hundreds of thousands marched in major cities globally | 1933 Anti-Nazi Demonstrations in response to reports of Nazi brutality in Germany, American Jewish organizations and labor unions organized mass rallies in major US cities | 1939 Madison Square Garden Rally, the pro-Nazi German American Bund held a "Pro-American" rally with over 20,000 supporters but waiting outside an estimated 100,000 protesters gathered creating a massive counter-demonstration | 1920-1930 Labor Activism with strikes primarily driven by wages, union recognition, and safer working conditions especially among mine and textile workers; Anti-Radicalism & Surveillance--early in the decade, many protest actions were suppressed due to the aftermath of the First Red Scare; Racial Violence--the early 1920s saw significant racially motivated riots, often targeting Black communities; Depression-Era Protests--by 1930 protests pivoted heavily toward demand for government relief, unemployment insurance, and protesting evictions | 1927 Columbine Mine Massacre, a labor massacre occurred during a strike in Serene, Colorado, when state militia fired on striking miners | 1929 The Crash, the Communist Party organized mass demonstrations in over 30 U.S. cities, including New York, Detroit, and San Francisco, to protest mass unemployment | 1930 - 1940 this decade is defined by the global economic crisis of the Great Depression; the rise of fascism in Europe; resistance to colonial rule; international unemployment demonstrations, heavy anti-fascist resistance in London; the movement for independence in India | 1930 Unemployed Councils organized 107 demonstrations in 47 cities, focusing on relief for the growing number of unemployed citizens | 1930 Gandhi's Salt March against British rule in India | 1930's Anti-Eviction Rallies throughout the early 1930s, housewives and community organizers led protests against evictions and high food prices | 1932 20,000 World War I veterans and their families marched on Washington, D.C. demanding payment of bonuses, violent dispersion ended the protest when U.S. troops commanded by General Douglas MacArthur destroyed the veterans' camps with tanks and tear gas | 1933-1941 30 major strikes involving Mexican and Filipino workers took place in California's San Joaquin Valley | 1934 Triumph of the Will, the Nazi party held massive annual choreographed rallies, which became state-mandated propaganda events | 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, protests and marches occurred globally to support the Spanish Republic against Franco's fascists | 1936 The Battle of Cable Street involved thousands of anti-fascist protestors, including local Jewish residents and workers, that built barricades to stop a march by Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists | 1939 Anti-British Palestine Protests in Jerusalem, protesters marched against the British Palestine 'White Paper' | 1941 Lagos Market Women Tax Protest in Nigeria, protested against increased taxes imposed by colonial authorities, demonstrating strong anti-colonial sentiment | 1940-1945 European Nonviolent Resistance of WWII, in Norway civil disobedience against the Nazification of the educational system, including teacher strikes; In Denmark "Negotiation under protest" and unofficial resistance including sabotage and slowdowns in production; Berlin, The 1943 Rosenstrasse protest, where German women protested for the release of their Jewish husbands | 1945 Indonesian National Revolution Protests following the declaration of independence, massive demonstrations occurred, including a 200,000-person protest in Jakarta protesting the return of Dutch colonial rule | 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade and March on Washington for Civil Rights | 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, protesting police persecution of LGBTQ+ people | 1970 First Earth Day, marking a rise in environmental activism | 1975 Icelandic women strike for equality | 1990 Poll tax riots in the United Kingdom | 2003 Large-scale international protests against the Iraq War | 2019 Global climate strikes driven by Greta Thunberg | 2025 Anti-Trump Protests ("No Kings"), global protests for the removal of Authoritarian regimes | 2026 Iranian War Protests; Palestinian and Israeli conflicts lead to protests across the globe (again) ....
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