More than 50, 000 protesters first occupied the square on 25 January, during which the area's wireless services were reported to be impaired.

The first was Columbia's proposed gymnasium in neighboring Morningside Park ; this was seen by the protesters to be an act of aggression aimed at the black residents of neighboring Harlem.

Isidore of Miletus was a renowned scientist and mathematician before Emperor Justinian I hired him, “ Isidorus taught stereometry and physics at the universities, first of Alexandria then of Constantinople, and wrote a commentary on an older treatise on vaulting .” Emperor Justinian I appointed his architects to rebuild the Hagia Sophia following his victory over protesters within the capital city of his Roman Empire, Constantinople.

The first group of protesters was distressed by this second, more aggressive group.

The first IMC node, attached as it was to the Seattle anti-corporate globalization protests, was seen by activists as an alternative news source to that of the corporate media, which they accused of only showing violence and confrontation, and portraying all protesters negatively.

The first public demonstrations occurred on 14 July 1942 when several hundred protesters took to the streets along the Avenue de la Victoire and Place Masséna.

On 22 July 2005, the first Latvian gay pride march took place in Riga, surrounded by protesters.

In the article, he wrote that catching " a glimpse of the forces supporting the Countryside Alliance: the public schools that laid on coaches ; the fusty, belch-filled dining rooms of the London clubs that opened their doors, for the first time, to the protesters ; the Prince of Wales and, of course, Camilla ... and suddenly, rather gloriously, it might be that you remember you voted Labour once again.

Tactics of a black bloc can include offensive measures such as street fighting, vandalism of corporate property, rioting, and demonstrating without a permit, but mainly consists of defensive tactics like misleading the authorities, assisting in the escape of people arrested by the police (" un-arrests ' or " de-arrests "), administering first aid to persons affected by tear gas, rubber bullets and other riot control measures in areas where protesters are barred from entering, building barricades, resisting the police, and practicing jail solidarity.

In an open letter to the Occupy protesters, Quinn described the Occupy movement as the " New Tribal Revolution ," a term he first used in Beyond Civilization.

Budapest and her defense team described the event as " the first witch prosecuted since Salem ," and the ensuing trial became a focus for media and pagan protesters.

* 1965-Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D. C., with about 25, 000 protesters

Kunstler represented the first Title IX Removal jurisdiction | federal removal cases under the Civil Rights Act of 1964: protesters at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

King Solomon Dupont-AME clergy who in the 1950s was the first African American to seek public office in northern Florida since Reconstruction era ; as VP of the Tallahassee Civic Association, he led a bus boycott, in which protesters lives were threatened, simultaneous to the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955.

The protest demonstrations were at first dealt with quickly and harshly by the junta, with dozens of protesters arrested and detained.

A number of clashes with police took place on Friday afternoon, with the first perimeter breach on Boulevard René-Lévesque Est, less than 5 minutes after the protesters arrived at the site, and in the evening.

In June 2005, during protests by Ialá's supporters alleging fraud in the first round of the presidential election, in which Ialá officially took third place, police fired on the protesters and arrested Sanhá, who was leading the march and was found by police to be carrying a loaded gun.

The first took place on May 1, 2010, where, following a speech delivered to hundreds at Lafayette Park, Gutiérrez marched with protesters to the White House and refused to leave until Presidential action was taken on immigration reform or he was arrested.

In March 2012, more than 130 protesters were arrested at the corporate headquarters of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, the first day of the plant's operation after the expiration of its 40-year license.

Kennedy invited the group into the White House ( the first time protesters had ever been so recognized ) and they met for several hours with McGeorge Bundy.

Following both incidents, the US soldiers asserted that they had not fired upon the protesters until they were fired upon first.

One of the most controversial " counter-terrorism " measures was the declaration of a designated free speech zone for protesters, limiting where and when protesters could exercise their first amendment rights.

Bartolucci was one of the three MPPs prevented from attending the Harris government's first Speech from the Throne in September 1995, when police officers contracted by the government to guard against protesters refused them entry into the legislature.

In the early 1950s, law students and their supporters petitioned the Law Society, and in 1953, a group of 50 student protesters marched on Osgoode Hall demanding formal recognition for the Faculty of Law.

* 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

The government successfully repressed the Indian protesters, but the public outcry over the harsh treatment of peaceful Indian protesters by the South African government forced South African leader Jan Christiaan Smuts, himself a philosopher, to negotiate a compromise with Gandhi.

Because the majority of ministers in the Petre Roman government were ex-communists, anti-communist protesters initiated a round-the-clock anti-government demonstration in University Square, Bucharest in April 1990.

Two months later, these protesters, whom the government referred to as " hooligans ", were brutally dispersed by the miners from Jiu Valley, called in by President Iliescu ; this event became known as the mineriad ( see June 1990 Mineriad ).

Later Parliamentary inquiries showed that members of the government intelligence services were involved in the instigation and manipulation of both the protesters and the miners, and in June 1994 a Bucharest court found two former Securitate officers guilty of ransacking and stealing $ 100, 000 from the house of a leading opposition politician.

Contested elections in late 2000 led to a massacre in Zanzibar in January 2001, with the government shooting into crowds of protesters, killing 35 and injuring 600.

On 26 August 2008, the protesters illegally occupied several government ministries, including the Government House which they sacked, to force the government to give in to demands.

In the same month, the home of opposition leader Jean Pierre Fabre was raided by security forces, and thousands of protesters again rallied publicly against the government crackdown.

* The Tlatelolco massacre – was a government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.

** In South Korea, military government forces and pro-democracy protesters clash ; 2, 000 protesters die.

** 1989 Ürümqi unrest: Uyghur and Hui Muslim protesters rioted in front of the government building in Ürümqi.

Mass murders occurred, notably in Abidjan from the 25 to 27 March, when government forces killed more than 200 protesters, and on the 20 and 21 June in Bouaké and Korhogo, where purges led to the execution of more than 100 people.

The government initially attempted to appease the protesters through concessions, but a student-led hunger strike galvanized support for the demonstrators around the country.

Internationally, the Chinese government was widely condemned for the use of force against the protesters.

Following 4 June, the government conducted widespread arrests of protesters and their supporters, cracked down on other protests around China, expelled foreign journalists and strictly controlled coverage of the events in the domestic press.

Norway has been aligned with the Western nations ' criticism of the Assad government and with allegations from human rights organizations of violence against protesters from the military and security forces.

; October 2009: Clashes: Palestinian protesters gathered at the site after rumours that an extreme Israeli group would harm the site, which the Israeli government denied.

The Tlatelolco massacre, also known as The Night of Tlatelolco ( from a book title by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska ), was the killing of student and civilian protesters as well as bystanders by Mexican government employees that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.

While at the time, government propaganda and the mainstream media in Mexico claimed that government forces had been provoked by protesters shooting at them, government documents that have been made public since 2000 suggest that the snipers had in fact been employed by the government.