Word: protesting
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Having been attacked by some U.S. church groups over last year's controversial film Priest, the Walt Disney Co. is no stranger to protest. Now the company has incurred the wrath of a government. China's leaders hotly object to Disney's plans to distribute Kundun, a Martin Scorsese-directed film currently in production that tells the story of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. China's leaders get to play the villains, and they are not amused, to the point of making threatening noises about Disney's future in the great market of the future...
...area was that after it acquired Riemann, it promptly bought the Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home in Jackson, Mississippi, which had previously sold only O'Keefe's brand of pre-need insurance. Suddenly, however, the Riemanns began selling their own brand through the new acquisition. O'Keefe took his protest directly to Ray Loewen...
Although Condenzio granted the Fox Club's request, he said he doubted the sincerity of their protest efforts...
About 60 members of Harvard's largest union held a candlelight vigil outside President Neil L. Rudenstine's home last night to protest the benefits reductions for part-time workers that are scheduled to take effect Jan.1...
...that didn't stop the union members and several student supporters from marching around Rudenstine's front yard and singing protest ballads such as "Worker's Wonderland" (to the tune of the traditional "Winter Wonderland."), as well as renditions of "We Shall Not Be Moved," "Union Maids" and "Solidarity...