Word: protestation
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...During the screening, young opposition protesters tried to break the monotony by shouting "Putin is an executioner!" and throwing packs of anti-Putin flyers from the balcony, but security quickly rounded them up. The audience greeted the film, and the protest, with an indifference typical of today's cynical and worn-out Moscow. Only once during the screening did the audience react with real laughter and applause: when the fictional First Lady told the press that "Freedom of speech is sacred to us." I couldn't help laughing either. Love indeed conquers all. Happy St. Valentine...
...Dershowitz said that those interested would “have to wait and see” whether he will stage some kind of counter-protest outside of tomorrow’s talk, though he said that Trivers has no credentials to speak about issues concerning Israel...
...Numerous protest groups—including the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement, Massachusetts Global Action, the Boston May Day Coalition, and the Harvard Students for a Democratic Society—decried Caldéron’s legitimacy as a president, his treatment of indigenous Mexicans in Oaxaca and Chiapas, and his positions on continental trade...
...Javier J. Castro ’09 said he was “standing in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca and Chiapas and to protest NAFTA...
...Asia's youngest nation - and one of the region's poorest - has been on edge since the spring of 2006, when hundreds of army troops, predominantly from the country's west were sacked. In protest, army commander Reinado deserted, fashioning himself as leader of a rebel corps. The military dispute sparked a factional civilian conflict between the country's Easterners and Westerners - groups that until then had rarely even defined themselves along regional lines. Dozens died in the ensuing mob violence. An estimated 150,000 of the nation's 1 million citizens were forced to flee their homes. Reinado...