Word: counterprotests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...antiforeigner violence that has spread across their nation this year, 300,000 German demonstrators -- nearly four times the number expected -- converged in Berlin's Lustgarten to rally for goodwill. But in full view of world media, the demonstration turned into an ugly spectacle of egg-splatting, paint-bombing counterprotest -- staged not by the neo-Nazi right, whose xenophobia prompted the march in the first place, but by some 400 left-wing anarchists. Chancellor Helmut Kohl was forced to abandon the procession shortly after beginning it. More enduring was the image of Germany's distinguished President, Richard von Weizsacker, his coat...
...students staged a satiric counterprotest yesterday against Concerned Christians at Harvard (CCH), a group which is calling for the removal of the Rev. Peter J. Gomes as minister of Memorial Church...
Though Defeat Homophobia's counterprotest was an AALARM-esque exercise in self-promotion, they did cut to the quick of the conflict: the decision was not institutionalized censorship but the choice of two individuals...
...counterprotest formed by 2 p.m. and soon swelled to a noticeably greater size than the conservative group...