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PROTESTS
!
Protests!
1
Pre-reading
What do you think the following 
protest movements are/were about? 
Occupy Wall Street 
(2011-2012, in New York, 
USA)
Occupy London (2011-
2012, in London, England)
The Arab Spring (2011-, 
in many Arab countries) 
The Salt March (1930, in 
India) 
The Great March on 
Washington (1963, in the 
USA) 
2
Reading I
Read the article once to compare 
your ideas from the Pre-reading task. 
3
Reading II 
Read the article again. Then, say 
what the numbers/dates, etc. 
refer to. 
1.
1963 
2. 
1930 
3. 
December 2010 
4.
May 2011
5. 
October 2011
6. 
February 2012
Recent protests from around the world. 
By Lauren Katz
ANSWERS
ON
PAGE
38
N
ew York, Cairo, London and Madrid have all 
seen large-scale protests in recent months. 
But what are the 
underlying causes
? 
There’s nothing new about protests. In the United 
States in 1963, 300,000 people marched to Washington 
D.C. to protest about the lack of 
civil rights
for African 
Americans. During the march, Martin Luther King, Jr. 
delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. And the 
protest led to the end of 
racial 
segregation
in the 
United States. Mahatma 
Ghandi’s “Salt March” in India 
in 1930 was an important 
step in India’s move 
towards independence 
from Britain. As part of this protest, Ghandi 
and his followers walked 390 kilometres to protest 
against the British 
salt monopoly
, and thousands of 
Indians joined him along the way. 
The 
wave of
recent 
protests began with the 
Arab Spring – a pro-
democracy movement in 
the Middle East. The very 
first protests took place 
in Tunisia in December 
2010, but they quickly 
spread
to other countries, 
including Libya, Egypt and Yemen. People were 
protesting about not having democratically-elected 
governments and about conditions in their countries. 
The protests led to social and economic changes, and 
in several cases leaders were forced to 
step down
.
Then came the Occupy 
movement. Inspired by 
the Arab Spring, this was a 
series of protests that began 
in Madrid in May 2011. 
It quickly spread to over 
ninety cities worldwide. 
Protestors were demonstrating against 
economic 
inequality
and 
corporate greed
. And, as the name 
suggests, they “
occupied
” public spaces such as 
squares and parks. In many cases, protesters 
pitched 
tents
and stayed for months. Two of the largest 
Occupy protests were in New York and London.
In New York, the protest movement was called 
“Occupy Wall Street”. It began in September 2011 
when a few hundred people 
camped out
in Zuccotti 
Park in the middle of the city. The occupation quickly 
grew, and on 5th October 2011 15,000 people 
marched through New 
York’s financial district. 
The movement’s slogan 
was “We are the 99%”, 
referring to difference 
between the 1% of 
extremely wealthy people in the United States and the 
rest of the population. In central London, protestors 
spent four months