0 someone who shows that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc. --
1 someone who protests publicly about something, especially as part of a group: --
They were protesters and, in the politically judgemental language of the time, they were rioters and comprised a mob.
In the urban activism of the '60s and '70s, protesters might chain themselves to trees to protect a park.
Some say it was horrible because of conditions surrounding the environment, having to walk through a crowd of screaming protesters.
His essay draws out the national and international limits to claims that the organisations had forged a transnational milieu of protesters and habits of protesting.
The linkage suggests that many gangsters and street protesters share an anti-state disposition.
It was rather because the protesters in the early 1960s had managed to broaden the appeal of radical pacifism.
As the war intensified, the tension between my academic and protester persona exacerbated.
Another decried the protesters' ' uncouth behaviour ' and their ' spitting and cursing ' (p. 144).