Word: protestations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Aguilera adds that SLAM—which has focused its protest and advocacy mainly on potential permanent employee layoffs this year—may move to address the loss of student jobs next year...
...body. With a new communications committee, we have spent a semester trying to inform students about how we work, and how they can get involved. Students came together to improve UC funding, provide new student services, work towards an ethnic studies secondary field, advocate for student social space, and protest budget cuts. When it was announced that the campus would close for five weeks in January next year, we had over 100 students ask how they could respond or change the decision...
...starting to emerge. Roeder had been following, and decrying, Tiller's work - which included performing abortions after 21 weeks - for years. Early reports on Roeder, who was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and is expected to be charged Tuesday, show a history of antiabortion, antigovernment philosophy and protest...
...mainstream pro-life movement operates as protest groups usually do - within the law, by peaceful means, working for legislative change on the one hand and cultural change on the other. But there is an uncomfortable consistency in the logic of the extremists: If abortion providers are mass child killers and the law refuses to act, the vigilante may see himself as the lone defender of justice - as vigilantes usually do. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who in 1991 was arrested while protesting in front of Tiller's office, released a statement that began, "Dr. Tiller was a mass murderer...
...stated that Roeder was charged on Sunday with first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault. He has not yet been charged with a crime. It also stated that Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry's statement "appeared to condone the murder." In fact, it encouraged supporters to "peacefully protest" abortion...