14: Protest

• 140: Engage in civilian protest, not specified below
• 141: Demonstrate
• 142: Conduct hunger strike
• 143: Conduct strike or boycott
• 144: Obstruct physically
• 145: Violent protest, riot

CAMEO 140: Engage in civilian protest, not specified below.

DescriptionAll civilian demonstrations and other actions carried out as protests against the target actor not otherwise specified.

Usage NotesThis residual category is not coded except when distinctions among CAMEO 141 through 145 cannot be made. Note that any form of civilian direct action that is undertaken as a symbol of support for the target actor should be coded under CAMEO 05.

ExamplePalestinians of the Israeli-occupied West Bank shunned work on Monday to protest at the settlement of Soviet Jewish immigrants on Arab land.

CAMEO 141: Demonstrate

DescriptionDissent, publicly show negative feelings or opinions: rally, gather to protest a policy, action or actor(s).

Usage NotesThe target for this event form is the party that the protest demonstration is directed against.

ExampleUp to 100 ethnic Albanians demonstrated on Tuesday in a town in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, where 24 people were killed in nationalist riots last March, Belgrade radio said.

CAMEO 142: Conduct hunger strike

DescriptionProtest by refusing to eat until certain demands are met.

Usage NotesThe target for this event form is the party which the hunger strikers protest against.

ExampleUp to 1,000 ethnic Turks began a hunger strike on Monday to protest against Sweden's decision to send them back to Bulgaria, where they say they face imprisonment, homelessness and persecution.

CAMEO 143: Conduct strike or boycott

DescriptionProtest by refusing to continue to work until certain demands are met; protest by refusing to deal with, buy, sell, use.

Usage NotesThis event form does not refer to military strikes, which are coded under CAMEO 19 instead. "Strike" here refers to economic or other civilian activities that are undertaken, usually in the form of refusing to do something until certain demands are met.

ExampleSome 500,000 workers affiliated with the Serbian Workers' Union (SSS) stopped work on the first day of an open-ended strike on Monday over a controversial employment bill signed in by Serbian Labour Minister Dragan Milovanovic.

CAMEO 144: Obstruct physically

DescriptionProtest by blocking entry and/or exit.

Usage NotesUse this event form to code for protest activities that seek to disrupt routine and normal proceedings by blocking passage.

ExampleAngry French paper workers blocked the Europe Bridge spanning the Rhine from France to West Germany for more than three hours by dumping sawdust on the roadway, French border police said.

CAMEO 145: Protest violently, riot

DescriptionProtest forcefully, in a potentially destructive manner.

Usage NotesUse this event form to code for demonstrations and protests that are explicitly violent. Note however that violence directed against person(s) are coded under CAMEO 18 instead.

ExamplePalestinian prisoners rioted Monday at this jail in northern Israel, setting fire to their mattresses and smashing furniture in a protest against their detention, police sources said.