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[[File:Day of Anger marchers with out signs.jpg|thumb|'''Egypt, 25 January 2011:''' marchers in Cairo with ‘OUT’ signs on the 'Day of Anger' against President Mubarak. On 11 February he left office.]]
* the [[Arab Spring]] uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, starting in [[Tunisia]] in December 2010, and resulting, in 2011, in the fall of rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. In some countries the movements were followed by war (e.g. [[Syrian Civil War]] and [[Yemeni Civil War (2015)|War in Yemen]]) or by a return to military rule, as in [[Egypt]] in 2013 following the [[Egyptian Revolution of 2011]]
*the [[Anti-austerity movement in Spain|15M or ''Indignados'' movement]], which included the peaceful occupation of squares all over Spain un may-june 2011, and a mosaic of other forms of civil disobedience by many of the groups that were created, or strengthtened, after the squares occupations. In particular the [[Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca|Platform for People Affected by Mortgages or PAH]].
* the [[Gezi Park protests]] in [[Turkey]] in 2013, in opposition to urban development plans, and also to government encroachments on freedom of expression and on Turkey's secularist traditions
* the early phases of the [[Euromaidan]] protests in [[Ukraine]] in 2013–14, demanding closer integration with European Union countries, and the resignation of President [[Viktor Yanukovych]]
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