Protests in Birmingham began Process_start with a boycott led by Shuttlesworth meant to pressure Convincing business leaders to open Openness employment Employment to people of all races , and end Process_end segregation in public facilities , restaurants , schools , and stores .

Protests Judgment_communication against the highly controversial 2009 Iranian presidential election Choosing results ( ) ( a disputed victory Getting by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ) , in support of opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi , occurred Coming_to_be in major cities nationwide from 2009 into early 2010 .

Protests Judgment_communication began Process_start the night of 12 June 2009 , following the announcement Expressing_publicly that incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won nearly 63 % of the vote , despite several reported irregularities Confronting_problem .

Protests were forbidden Preventing_or_letting and `` timing errors were considered part of the regatta 's charm . ''

Protests Violence started Process_start in Tottenham , London , following the death Death of Mark Duggan , a local man who was shot Use_firearm dead Killing by police on 4 August .

Protests and ceremonies by Papuans raising Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale their flag for independence or federation with Papua New Guinea , and accuse the Indonesian government of indiscriminate violence Violence and of suppressing Hindering their freedom of expression .

Protests have occurred Coming_to_be in over 40 Mexican cities , including an estimated 50,000 in Cuernavaca and 20,000 in Mexico City .

Protests ended Process_end after the government promised Commitment to permanently suspend Process_end the project .

The Republic Protests ( ) were a series of peaceful mass rallies that took place in Turkey in 2007 in support of a strict principle of state secularism .

Protests Protest in Donetsk and Luhansk regions ( oblasts ) escalated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale into an armed pro-Russian separatist insurgency .

2005 Ahvaz unrest Violence or 15 April Ahvaz Protests Communication were violent Violence riots Violence , initiated Creating by Iranian Arabs in the city of Ahvaz in southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan .

Protests were based on concerns that the bills , intended to provide Supply more robust responses Response to copyright infringement ( also known as piracy ) arising Coming_to_be outside the United States , contained Containing measures that could possibly infringe online freedom of speech , websites , and Internet communities .

Protests Protest were ignited Causation over plans Arranging to expand Expansion a coal-fired power plant Placing in the town—a plan Arranging that residents opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act , arguing Quarreling that existing Presence coal-fired plants had caused Causation environmental and health damage Damaging .

Protests began Process_start on 15 October 2011 in City Square with a 6-day-long protest encampment , from which people were forcibly evicted Removing by Victoria Police at the request Request of the City of Melbourne CEO on 21 October 2011 .

Protests Protest have included Cause_to_be_included massive non-violent marches Social_event , but also a considerable amount of violence Violence on the part of a side of protestors as well as riot police .

Protests , both peaceful and violent , continued for more than a week in Ferguson ; police established Creating a nightly curfew .

Protests in Tiananmen Square ( April–June 1989 ) failed to stimulate major political changes in China , but influential images of courageous defiance during that protest helped to precipitate events in other parts of the globe .

Protests Protest , on a lesser scale , continued in University Square in Bucharest .

The 8888 Nationwide Popular Pro-Democracy Protests Protest ( MLCTS : `` hrac le : lum : '' ) , also known as the 8-8-88 Uprisings Violence , or the People Power Uprising Violence , the People 's Democracy Movement and the 1988 Uprising Violence , were a series of nationwide protests , marches and civil unrest Violence in Burma ( Myanmar ) that peaked in August 1988 .

Protests and clashes increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in January , after the Ukrainian parliament passed a group of anti-protest laws .