Word: counter-protest
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...small group of students formed an informal counter-protest as they stood waving United States flags in front of Thayer Hall on the periphery of the sea of anti-war protesters that filled half of the Yard...
...student protesters, who described themselves as “The Organization To Defend America,” also had to face a counter-protest of about ten “anti-anti-French” demonstrators who began passing out pictures of the Statue of Liberty and shouting “Vive la France! Vive le Council de Securite!” before the anti-French rally had even begun...
When local feminists like Emily Hall, a board member of the Boston chapter of the National Organization for Women and a staffer in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences registrar’s office, found out about the anti-abortion demonstration earlier this month, they organized their own counter-protest...
...Alan M. Dershowitz’s recent article on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were not the only ones standing outside Science Center B yesterday (News, “Students Confront Dershowitz Over Article,” March 20). I was there, too, standing opposite the group with a counter-protest of my own. To make sure that both sides of the argument were represented, I wrote two signs of my own: “End Suicide Bombings” and (in response to the protesters’ “What if Cambridge were Bulldozed...
...what was the purpose of the counter-protest? Why a vehement opposition if they recognized the validity of the Palestinian claims human rights and self-determination? They were out there because they opposed the “one sidedness” of the demonstration and they didn’t want Israel being demonized...