Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even widespread grassroots anger may not be enough to bring down the indicted war criminal. "Milosevic won?t go simply because tens or even hundreds of thousands of people are out in the streets demanding his resignation," says Anastasijevic. "He?s been through that before and survived because the protest movement?s leadership was incompetent." Opposition leaders can trump Milosevic every time in the moral authority stakes, but to win they?ll need to match his street-fighting smarts...
...Killeen, Christians howl in protest. "We believe they are satanic and that they do not deserve to have any place at Fort Hood," says the Rev. Jack Harvey of the local Tabernacle Baptist Church, which sponsored a letter-writing campaign against the Wiccans. "Eighty percent of my congregation is military, and they are appalled...
...there were hundreds of thousands on the streets of Belgrade," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "And today there are far more laws and restrictions against opposition activity." In addition, the opposition is bedeviled by the divisions in its ranks. Vuk Draskovic, the opposition leader of the 1996 protest movement who later went into Milosevic?s cabinet as deputy prime minister -- and was later fired for his dissenting views at the height of the Kosovo conflict -- dismissed Tuesday?s protest as the work of small parties of no influence. Such divisions may encourage Milosevic to pursue his trademark divide...
Students involved in campus activist groups such as the Living Wage Campaign and the Coalition Against Violence organized a walk-out and rally that took place during Commencement Day exercises. The event was intended as a protest of Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan's economic policies and his selection as Commencement speaker...
Around three dozen students carrying red balloons walked out of the speech in silent protest of Greenspan's economic policies, which they said disadvantaged poor Americans. Protest organizers had expected as many as 100 students to leave...