They did it in all of these Sunderland Echo scenes when they protested over everything from a ban on the Bay City Rollers to cutbacks in East Herrington bus services.
Relive it all with us in memories from 1975 to 2014.
1. Rolling back to 1975
Schoolgirl fans screaming "We love you, Rollers," staged a demonstration about the ban on the Bay City Rollers performing at the Empire Theatre in Sunderland. | se
2. Hendon flashback
Some of the residents of Lawrence Court, Hendon, pictured during their protest over conditions in their flats in 1980. | se
3. On their way to London
Labour councillor John Donnelly, Sunderland's Housing Chairman, was on hand at the Civic Centre to give a send-off to Sunderland's contribution to the jobs demonstration in London in 1981. | se
4. Protesting in 1987
A demonstration outside the Civic Centre in January 1987 about the Harrison Buildings in Sunderland. | se