Has there been an EFFECTIVE protest in the last 20 years?

Question

Where and when?

Answer 1

1986. Manilla in the Philippines. A massive street march with Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of the Philippines at the head of the march. Within days, Ferdinand Marcos resigned as President of that country and went into exile. I know it was 21 years ago, but it's pretty close.
August 1991. Moscow and Leningrad in the Soviet Union. People took to the streets. The President of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic stood on a tank and demanded that a group of coup leaders release Soviet President Mikael Sergevich Gorbachev from house arrest. He was released, yet the protests continued and led to the death of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on December 24th of that same year.
1989- Protests throughout many of the communist-ruled nations of Eastern Europe, including that of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). That nation went through a series of nighttime candle-lit marches in many of its major cities including Pankow (East Berlin). In November all of those nations disposed of their communist regimes, the Berlin Wall came down and Germany was re-unified for the first time since World War Two.
That's about it. Not bad for two decades worth of citizen involvement.

Answer 2

Don't know, but I would bet it was either the labor unions in New York or the Teamsters. Transit unions usually win their protests, as do the cops when they strike or threaten to. I would look there.

Answer 3

I protested my steak wasnt cooked enough and the pub brought me another so yes id say that was effectve.

Answer 4

poll tax !!