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Some Syrians took to the streets in protest last month after petrol costs jumped by 26 percent following a government decision to increase prices amid global surges due to the regional conflict.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

But when many urged him to call his angry supporters into the streets to protest what they believed was fraud, Cárdenas instead told them to continue the political struggle through the ballot box.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

At the Paris protest on Saturday, a row of police in riot gear led the crowd along the authorized route down boulevards on the city’s outskirts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The protest organising committee, which calls itself SADAR, meaning "aware" in Bahasa Indonesia, said the action was meant to mark a "revolution that is being proclaimed".

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Under protest, he finally agreed to rent them a team of horses and a wagon, with his son Charlie acting as driver for the trip south.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

In the wake of that scandal, which sparked weeks of protests, some argued that Bass would be a healing force at City Hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

But the cost of living is a key issue for voters, especially Spain's long-running housing crisis, with protests over the issue culminating in Sanchez's calling of a snap general election on November 29.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Countries across Europe are grappling with a wave of rising discontent over the cost of living, with weeks of protests breaking out across France this month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

As a college student, Cárdenas actively participated in protests against the U.S.-orchestrated coup in 1954 that toppled reformist President Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

In addition to attending protests over the murder at the Duke Chapel, he began reading about a branch of Catholicism called “liberation theology,” which Archbishop Romero had been preaching.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The Mothers of East L.A. organized and protested and lobbied, and put the brakes on plans for a state prison in their midst, and created a template for community power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

She protested at the Fresno County Board of Supervisors for increased pay for home healthcare workers, who made just $12 an hour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

A police officer told AFP that police fired shots into the air to disperse a crowd in Bara, a town in the province's western Khyber district, and five people were detained as dozens protested there.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Student groups and opposition parties have also protested in the capital over the past few days.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“I didn’t do it! He’s just clumsy,” Garth protested when Mrs. Brisbane angrily scolded him.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting in the streets.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026

After Dipke and Bora were released from custody, they made it clear they would keep protesting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Shahiza Huseynova, a mother who was protesting outside a school in the Mashtaga district of the capital, was detained on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 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

On the day of Woodrow Wilson’s second inauguration, March 4, 1917, one thousand protesting women encircled the White House in the biting wind, sleet, and pouring rain.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling