ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the social protest, movements and everyday forms of resistance that have emerged in Kushtia District and also describes the forms of resistance that have emerged in other local settings and at the national level in Bangladesh. The most vulnerable people occasionally take extreme actions against the people they hold responsible for their economic hardship, while less vulnerable people may use more traditional mechanisms or organize under the banner of a local or national social, political or community organization. There is a long history of public protest against the Farakka Barrage, for instance, and one of the most notable protests, the "long march" of 1976, was organized by a national level opposition party leader. Ninety percent of the total population of Bangladesh can be categorized as marginalized in terms of their economic status and level of exclusion from political institutions.
