Word: protestants
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...past decade, the busy thoroughfare overlooking Jantar Mantar has served as New Delhi's officially designated protest zone. All other public spaces and government buildings are off-limits. As a result, the area surrounding Jantar Mantar hosts a rich daily marketplace of complaints, ranging from tribal members demanding compensation for lost land and farmers seeking better prices for their crops, to demonstrators demanding greater rights for women and gays, and everyone in between. The 18th century observatory is now witness to what the writer V.S. Naipaul called "India's million mutinies" - the dizzying array of fault lines, small and large...
China detains people who apply for PROTEST PERMITS, then gives them dunce caps...
Obama's rise has demonstrated so far that a lot of that protest worked, and this latest wave of black politicians is living, breathing evidence of it. Only one generation removed from the protests their parents led, many are Ivy League graduates in their 30s, 40s and 50s who remember the 1960s--and even the 1970s--only from old video and the printed page...
...attorney Kamala Harris, 43, is the first African American and first woman to hold her city's top law-enforcement post. The Howard University graduate spent several wintry days knocking on doors in Iowa for Obama. She comes to her activism honestly: her parents met at a Berkeley student protest. Another Obama backer is Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, one of only two current African-American governors. Patrick, 52, shocked the commonwealth's political establishment in 2006 when he came out of nowhere to defeat a long-favored Democrat in the primary and trounce an incumbent Republican lieutenant governor...
...Obama's rise has demonstrated so far that a lot of that protest worked, and this latest wave of black politicians is living, breathing evidence of it. Only one generation removed from the protests their parents led, many are Ivy League graduates in their 30s, 40s and 50s who remember the 1960s-and even the 1970s-only from old video and the printed page...