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Given this diversity and the tangential connections between all these events, it’s almost easier to say what the protest wave of 2026 is not about than to define it precisely.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Clashes broke out in Paris at the end of the protest march on the eastern edge of the capital.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

For fans who made the trip, the combination of America’s favorite sport with France’s tradition of public protest has created an odd dissonance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

"This gathering is not simply about standing up for journalists," veteran journalist Zafer Arapkirli told AFP after the Istanbul protest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

A bunch of people carried protest signs and wore T-shirts with climate change slogans, and Akira and Natalie took pictures of the best ones.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

While the protests in Belgium and Italy are direct outgrowths of the French student movement, the proximate causes of unrest are local and distinct in every case.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

After this weekend's protests, many shopfronts in the city centre were still boarded up early Monday, just hours before Macron's arrival.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

In Greece the protests were initially about workplace safety and public sector wages.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

AFP has deployed reporters, photographers and video journalists in cities across France to document massive cost-of-living protests expected to take place nationwide Saturday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Even the terror of the post-Reconstruction era couldn’t quell these protests entirely.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Some protested specific projects, notably the World Bank-backed Pak Mun dam, a hydropower project completed in 1994 that fishing communities say damaged their livelihoods.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Survivors, students and advocates rallied and protested in communities and on college campuses across more than 40 states.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The following year Whittaker helped organise a walkout, in which some 20,000 staff protested against the company's handling of several issues, including what they felt was the rushed introduction of new technology.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The next morning, she protested her neighbor for the first time, grabbing a sign that said “Justice for All” and paddling back and forth in front of his home, hoping he would see.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Oh, Jonah, that’s not the way to look at this,” Mom protested, at the same time that Katherine said, “Oh, could I go to the conference with you? That’d be great!”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

"Seeing people on the front lines creating communities, protesting, running campaigns, tirelessly fighting for their own rights and the rights of others is what keeps me going," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting in the streets.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026

Weeks of student-led protests over conditions in the country’s schools morphed into a broader movement that drew people of all ages protesting the rising cost of living.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

There are so many ways to make societal shifts, whether that’s writing to your officials or protesting or creating art that is challenging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

The marchers were ostensibly protesting the School Board’s recent decision not to take part in a federally funded jobs program, the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson