Word: protester
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With a membership of fewer than 150 activists, Oakland's Panthers are far from such feats, although trouble often follows them. Armed Panthers invaded California's state assembly last spring to protest a tough new gun law; Panther Defense Minister Huey P. Newton, 26, is in jail awaiting trial for killing an Oakland policeman; Chairman Bobby Seale, 31, was convicted last week of illegal possession of weapons, and Cleaver, who has spent 12 of his adult years in prison for narcotics and assault convictions, was being held under guard in a hospital as a parole violator...
...added that if anyone at Harvard needed more recognition, it was "the militant political activists whose demonstrations and acts of protest are about the only safety valve to prevent our government from getting us into World War III or into a civil war between blacks and whites...
...late fifties, when the South was preparing to close down its schools in protest against the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation decision, McGill's daily front-page columns were avidly read and misread by both Southern racists and Northern liberals. To the grasseaters of rural Georgia he was a "race-mixer" and worse; former governor Eugene Talmadge referred to him as "Rastus McGill." To the liberals he was the South's single beacon of rationality; they were apt to overlook his claim that "this was never a question of being for integration or against...
ALWAYS eager to join a battle and turn it into a crusade if he can, McGill has never let the battle-field slip away under his feet. In 1938, when he became executive editor of the Constitution, the Atlanta chapter of the KKK staged a protest parade around the Constitution building, denouncing him. Since then, particularly in times of racial tension, he has received a steady stream of obscene phone calls and occasional loads of garbage dumped on his front lawn...
...most reports, the NRA runs a "clean" lobbying effort. Like many of the other "educational" organizations, it is too powerful to have to stoop to blatantly illegal means of influencing legislation. One notice in the American Rifleman opposing a proposed gun law will send a stream of thousands of protest letters to Capitol Hill from gun-owners who see their prized possessions as prey to an encroaching government...