Word: protesting
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...called a traitor to unionism by the likes of Ian Paisley, the blunderbuss leader who has made a career of fanning hatred in the North of Ireland and who refused to participate in the talks. Paisley's recalcitrance left him with no role other than leading a pathetic midnight protest outside the gates of the final negotiations and, with luck, a permanent position on the outer fringes of Northern Ireland politics...
...demonstration of solidarity with Ulin, Herzfeld and other leaders in the field of European anthropology have organized a campaign to protest Allegheny's decision...
...Allegheny protest is not Herzfeld's first encounter with what he calls issues of academic freedom...
Bauer recalled the Chinese protesters who brandished copies of the Declaration of Independence during the Tiananmen Square protest...
Gandhian nonviolence is widely believed to be the method by which India gained independence. (The view is assiduously fostered inside India as well as outside it.) Yet the Indian revolution did indeed become violent, and this violence so disappointed Gandhi that he stayed away from the independence celebrations in protest. Moreover, the ruinous economic impact of World War II on Britain, and--as British writer Patrick French says in his book Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division--the gradual collapse of the Raj's bureaucratic hold over India from the mid-'30s onward did as much...