Student protest

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Students protest in front of 600 Fullum Street, in Montreal on March 16 2005
Students protest in front of 600 Fullum Street, in Montreal on March 16 2005

Student protest encompasses a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academic issue and mobilization to communicate this dissatisfaction to the authorities (university or civil or both) and society in general and hopefully remedy the problem. Protest forms include but are not limited to: sit-ins, occupations of university offices or buildings, strikes etc. More extreme forms include suicide such as the case of Kostas Georgakis' protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.

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