SEALDs, short for Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (自由と民主主義のための学生緊急行動 Jiyū to minshu shugi no tame no gakusei kinkyū kōdō), is a student activist organisation in Japan that organises protests against the ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe who advocate a set of security-related bills that would reinterpret the Constitution and allow the Japanese Self-Defense Force to be deployed overseas.