Word: protested
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Opponents of the proposed law who argue that taking free papers is a form of free expression make a valid, but limited point. When could taking free papers in protest express something that should be protected by the First Amendment? This condition would be met only when taking the paper adds a symbolic value to the protest which would be absent if the paper is not taken...
...example, taking one paper and burning it would certainly add symbolic value to a protest of the paper's content, in the same way that burning a flag might add symbolic value to a protest...
April 1969--Students take over University Hall to protest ROTC...
...First Lady draws her own share of fire. About 500 men, women and children braved a wet, bitter wind to protest her visit last month to Wausau, Wisconsin. BILL AND HILLARY, PREZ AND CO-PREZ OF SLEAZE, read many of the placards. In the middle of the crowd Constance Brockman, an apple-cheeked mother of two, talked about why she came out in such foul weather. Brockman, a 38-year-old homemaker, said she was worried about social ills -- crime and the lack of sexual abstinence among teenagers -- which she blames the Clinton Administration for exacerbating. "The country...
...vote, Alabama's Randolph County school board reinstated Hulond Humphries, the white high school principal accused of trying to cancel a prom to avoid interracial dating. The only white school-board member to join the lone black member in voting against Humphries resigned in protest...