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City University of Hong Kong students staging a sit-in during 2014 Hong Kong protests over blocking of electoral reforms
Campus protest or student protest is a form of student activism that takes the form of protest at university campuses. Such protests encompass a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academics 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 Jan Palach 's, and Jan Zajíc 's protests against the end of the Prague Spring and Kostas Georgakis ' protest against the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. Contents
1 History
2 Participation and issues
3 Forms
4 Response and aftermath
5 Examples
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
History
In the West, student protests such as strikes date to the early days of universities in the Middle Ages, with one of the earliest being the University of Paris strike of 1229, which lasted two years, and University of Oxford strike of 1209. In more recent times, student demonstrations occurred in 19th century Europe, for example in Imperial Russia. In 1930s, some Polish students protested against anti-Semitic ghetto benches legislation. In the second half of the 20th century, significant demonstrations occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s: the French May 1968 events began as a series of student strikes;