Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Sep. 2010
A protest is that sample of dissatisfaction or discontent that an individual will express with respect to something or someone. Generally, that dissatisfaction has to do with some decision or action that touches him intimately, whether in his economic, professional or personal interests. “After the manager announced the freezing of wages for a period of one year, I asked to speak to express my resounding protest against this arbitrary measure.”
When they treat us poorly in a store or when we also receive poor service from a company that we hire, it is an attitude recurring that we feel the desire to express that dissatisfaction or disagreement through a protest that will be directed to the person responsible for the care to the client.
Most service companies have a call center to receive this type of protest, mostly via telephone, and they even have a book in which the customer who felt badly served can write down his bad experience.
The mission of implementing these resources is to offer a better quality service.
Act, word or document through which the claim is expressed
Also, to the document, act or word with which the disagreement or dissatisfaction in question is expressed it is designated by the term of protest.
This sense of protest, as a public display of the opinion of a group from a meeting in the streets on some date or symbolic place, it turns out to be one of the most popular uses of the word protest these days and also, it became the most common modality, which people use when having to proclaim themselves against a decision or project, or also to claim some right.
Groups that protest to claim rights or claim situations
Protests of this type are generated by some concrete discomfort, while the mass media frequently reflect the protests of various groups that consider themselves to have been harmed by some reason.
The protest always has a vindication character and expresses the desire to improve some contexts or situations of some social sectors, especially the most vulnerable.
Always, the mission of the protest will be to show that an important part of a country opposes a certain politics, personality or law recently enacted.
The more people call a protest, the greater the possibility that it will be able to distort the established order of the things, since the more people are in favor of an issue, the greater the chances that it will be achieved.
Unfortunately, a recurring consequence of protests is often the violence, since in many mobilizations internal disagreements are usually unleashed in the same group, or failing that, As it is a public meeting, it may be that there is an infiltrator that motivates a situation of violence.
Also, violence can come from the police authorities whose mission is to ensure the safety from the streets and take care that the protests do not get out of hand in terms of order and harmony.
When those mobilized practice violence, it usually happens that the police advance in their arrest and thus a fight is generated between both parties, which usually develops even more violence, because the police use certain elements to stop them, such as rubber bullets, tear gas, while who on the other side usually respond with forceful elements that they have on hand, sticks, stones, among others, and of course the balance is seriously injured both sides.
In those cases in which the police act violently to dismantle a protest that did not develop violence of any kind, it will be discussed in terms of police repression and, of course, the police authorities that have incurred in this action must answer to justice for that attack.
Argentine newspaper
On the other hand, Protest knew how to be a recognized newspaper transmitter of the thought anarchist in Argentina at the end of the 19th century, also establishing itself as the most important journalistic voice that Latin American anarchism had at that time.
It was founded by a group of workers belonging to different unions and in its first five years of life it was directed by the Catalan worker and cabinetmaker Gregorio Inglán Lafarga. Among its most outstanding feathers are the following: Mariano Cortés, Pietro Gori, Alberto Ghiraldo, Florencio Sanchez, José de Maturana, among others.