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The late 1920s saw an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons, Anthony Martin Fernando condemned the failure of British rule in his country. Fernando is believed to be the first Aboriginal person to protest conditions in Australia from the streets of Europe. His various forms of action, from pamphlets on the streets of Rome to the famous Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, distinguish this lone protestor as a unique Aboriginal activist of his time

The memoir of futures trader, investor seminar guru, and tax protestor Larry Williams From the Boston Tea Party to the modern Tea Party movement, history is replete with examples of organized resistance to paying taxes. But it's not just large groups, as Henry David Thoreau was briefly jailed for refusing to pay taxes. Confessions of a Radical Tax Protestor: An Inside ExposŽ of the Tax Resistance Movement is the true story of another famous tax protestor-Larry Williams. From his arrest in Australia and extradition to the United States to his victorious fight against the IRS and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the book Reveals the seedy underworld of tax avoidance specialists Explains the difference between honest tax protests and illegal estate planning strategies and tax havens Details why the famous money manager, high profile Libertarian, and father of actress Michelle Williams ultimately agreed to do PSAs for the IRS denouncing tax protests on an individual basis From South Africa to Australia to the United States, Confessions of a Radical Tax Protestor is the incredible true story of one man's victorious fight for what he believed in.

Tahrir Square was the critical event that prompted a new generation of Egyptian feminist and human rights activists to join citizens in the streets to claim a new social and gender contract. While female protestors were an essential part of the revolution, their bodies powerfully triggered the economy of shame to ostracize some activists and to underpin, as Williams explains structures of feeling that sidelined the need to address rape in the square. This paper argues that the female protestor is a focus of political violence whose experiences illuminate the matrix that sustains and normalizes sexual violence in a society. This allows us to connect female body politics with broader socio-economic and political conflicts and with processes of state reconfiguration in marginal/liminal spaces.

Scholars have long studied how social movements frame and deliver their messages, yet less is known about how these "signals" are received by the public. In this study, we examine how a social movement participant's characteristics interact with a bystander's to influence movement support. In addition, we examine how perceived likelihood of violence mediates these outcomes. We propose five competing models based on previous theories of emotion, race, and political views in social movement support. To adjudicate between these frameworks, we conduct an experiment using a 2x2 factorial design in which participants read a news story about a protest accompanied by an image of a neutral/angry, white/Black protestor, measuring three types of social movement support, and examine results and model fit. Results provide support for a politicized-race model: a Black protestor is more motivating for liberals' social movement support, while a white protestor is more motivating for conservatives. Both liberals and conservatives are more likely to associate the protest with violence after seeing a Black protestor compared to a white one. Racialized perceptions of violence explain part of conservatives' hesitancy to support the movement when seeing a Black protestor and inhibits part of the otherwise-positive effect of seeing a Black protestor for liberals.

pro-choice protestor holding up a sign depicting an abortion drug

This photo essay is an account from the perspective of an unknown citizen of the protest movement that happened in Delhi after the rape of a young girl on a bus in the city in December 2012. Chandan Gomes documents the movement not as a documentary photographer or a photo journalist, but as a protestor.