Word: counterprotests
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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...
Other artists felt obliged to counterprotest what they said was a curtailment of Tyler's right to free expression. The Art Institute school was the site of a similar controversy last year over a painting portraying the late Mayor Harold Washington dressed in lingerie. Ironically, at that time Tyler joined protests alleging that the portrayal of the mayor was racist...
...terrorize shopkeepers, block roadways and telephone anonymous threats to workers who went to their jobs. They poured sugar in gas tanks, fired shots at a school bus and bombed a rail line. When Mairead Corrigan, leader of the Women's Peace Movement, appeared to wage a counterprotest, they tore up her pacifist placards. Among the opponents of the strike who were subjected to "U.D.A. persuasion" was Thomas Passmore, the leader of the Protestant Orange Order in Belfast. Passmore, whose aged father had been shot dead by the I.R.A. last year, complained bitterly, "My own home has already suffered...
...disaffected agent, Robert Wall, recently quit the FBI when he found himself pointlessly transcribing the speeches of antiwar activists although even stronger protests were being voiced by Senators on the floors of Congress. He claimed that agents were engaged in counterprotest activity, sending out fake press releases to confuse or create strife within the peace movement. Clearly, the FBI has no business playing that kind of game...