'''Protest camps''' are physical [[Campsite|camp]]s that are set up by [[activist]]s, to either provide a base for [[protest]], or to delay, obstruct or prevent the focus of their protest by physically blocking it with the camp. TheyProtest begancamps inmay also have a symbolic or reproductive component where 'protest campers' try and recreate their desired worlds through the 1920senactment of protest camp infrastructures (such as communal kitchens, child care, environmentally friendly compost toilets or use of greywater systems)or through the modes of organising and becamegovernance famous(e.g. indirect 1982democracy). dueCamping on and/or occupying land has a long history which can be traced back to nomadic cultures as well as the publicity17th generatedcentury by[[Diggers]]. However, the use of protest camps as a contemporary form of protest can be linked back to the US [[civil rights movement]] of the 1960s and, specifically, "Resurrection City", a protest camp held in May 1968 in [[Washington,_D.C.]] as part of the [[Poor_People's_Campaign]]. In the [[United_Kingdom]]] publicity around the 1982 [[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]] in [[England]] put protest camps in the public imagination. Since then the practice of protest camping has and continues to be used by many social movements around the world <ref>[http://www.greenhamwpc.org.uk// Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==See also==
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==External links==
*[httpshttp://webwww.archive.org/web/20180315215803/http://protestcamps.org/com Protest campsCamps research project]
