Global protest activity surged sharply after 2010 following decades of decline

Evidence

Taking the incidence of demonstrations and spontaneous strikes as an indicator of repoliticization, the results are unequivocal, even spectacular (see Figure 2). After a prolonged period of low and declining protest activity—interrupted only briefly around the year 2000, when alter-globalists demonstrated against summits in Seattle and Genoa—protest levels surged dramatically from 2010 onward. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 172

Categorization

• SHARE: The detail that the only pre-2010 spike was Seattle and Genoa alter-globalist summits circa 2000 is the kind of anchor a protest-research friend would appreciate.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 172
• XREF: connects to: The 2010s exceeded the 1960s as the largest protest decade in history — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 45; Over ten million people protested worldwide against the 2003 Iraq war invasion — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 123; The 2010s saw more mass protest than any prior decade — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 45