Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...console in the basement might be doing to her kids. She decided that there would be no more violent video games in the Smith house. "I told them they could go jump on the trampoline or play the pinball machine or air hockey," she says. "There wasn't much protest...
...hours, more than 10,000 devotees planted themselves eight-deep on the sidewalk surrounding the nation's Zhongnanhai government compound, demanding that their Falun Gong sect, led by Li, receive status as a permitted group. The silent sit-in was by far the boldest protest in Beijing since the butchering of the pro-democracy movement almost exactly a decade ago. And the regime's response was just as stunning. Rather than attack, it granted leaders an audience with Premier Zhu Rongji...
Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) added a new method to their repertoire of protest techniques yesterday. During prime time outside the Science Center--at high noon and again at 1 p.m.--they staged a street theater performance to protest the University's sweatshop policy...
...other speakers at the event echoed Wang's passion for the democratic cause. Lu Jing Hua, a labor activist in the Tiananmen protest, spoke about the importance of free speech for the Chinese people and told the audience about her experience as a protestor...
Xiao said that the increase in communication options among national and international protest groups helps to facilitate change. He said the Internet provides a way to inform Chinese people about democracy...