Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holton's actions inspired the organization of a group that demonstrated against the games and circulated a petition calling for their removal.
After a demonstration, a petition drive, and even some violence, five video games have been banned from a campus recreational area at Duke University.
The anti-drug trafficking petition, which drew 10,000 signatures was drafted in January by the Concerned Christians of Greater Boston a group made up of members of the First Church and four representatives of the Seymour Society.
The representatives met with white officials, but they would not "surrender the petition until they could give it to the mayor in person. Sanders said, because it was addressed to White Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Police Commissioner Joseph Jourdan.
Concerned Christians was formed in January as a response to the problems in the Roxbury community not being addressed at the time." Silva said adding that "That point of one petition who pull the community together and say that we retired of having our community used for a dumping ground...