This article is from Prachatai, an independent news site in Thailand, edited and republished by Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. The mass protest at Democracy Monument in Bangkok on August 16 has now been dubbed the largest protest in Thailand since the 2014 coup . More than 20,000 people joined the demonstration which started at 3 pm and went on until around 11 pm. On the main stage, speakers took turns giving speeches about many issues from violations of human rights in schools, gender equality, and labor rights to the issues facing people in the southern provinces. They also continued pressing for the three demands made at the mass protest on July 18: stop harassing citizens, draft a new constitution, and dissolve parliament. The group also added that the demands are made on the conditions that there must not be a military coup or a national unity government and that there is “one dream,” in which they hope to see a democracy with the monarch under the co