Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there hasn't really been anything so big since the Anti-Sweatshop/Rape Awareness protest last year...
...Anti-sweatshop and Rape Awareness? What do they have to do with each other? See, when you pull stuff like that, real head-scratchers, it gives the appearance of shouting just for the sake of shouting. You guys don't even know how to protest well...
...trying to slay. Beijing ratcheted up its campaign against the religious group Thursday, branding it a "devil-cult" and vowing to show it no mercy. But despite the heavy prison sentences that Chinese law prescribes for members of cults, hundreds of Falun Gong members continued their almost daily protests in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China. Although the authorities fear the consequences of allowing a millions-strong religious sect whose leader is based in the U.S. to flourish beyond official control in China, the very form of the Falun Gong protest - quiet meditation and exercise - highlights the problem facing...
...Stop the Hate" rally against homophobia was organized to protest recent homophobic incidents on campus and throughout the world...
...carried a detailed account of how the Clinton administration decided to bomb the Al Shifa chemical plant in 1998 despite warnings by senior intelligence and security personnel that there was insufficient evidence linking it to either Osama Bin Laden or the manufacture of chemical weapons. Under pressure from international protest and media inquiries, administration sources have backpedaled substantially on both claims since the August 1998 strike, which, together with a similar raid on Bin Laden's Afghanistan camps, was launched in retaliation for the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. But the Times report also carries allegations from...