Word: rioting
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...routine police raid of a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn turned into a riot as the customers resisted arrest and cornered the arresting officers in the bar, throwing bricks at them through the windows from the outside. Later in the same week, two demonstrations in front of the Stonewall turned into riots as police struggled to disperse them. Becoming Visible strives to both challenge the popular assumption that gay liberation was born with the Stonewall riots and to show the wide ranging effects of those riots on gay movements up to the present...
...investors scrambled for bargains; the next few weeks will likely be turbulent as investors and speculators learn the ropes of what will be a very different Malaysia as far as outsiders are concerned. Inside Malaysia, Mahathir?s plan has already caused chaos ?- after Anwar?s sacking, three truckloads of riot police were dispatched to the prime minister?s residence to quell protests by Anwar supporters...
...black men and women lunge at the suspected killers, enveloping them and oozing onto the surrounding streets like volcanic lava. I have seen the sheer power of their hatred stop eight lanes of traffic and shatter bus windows. I have witnessed walls of white police officers dressed in riot gear equipped with tear gas, dogs and clubs and yet powered by much more. And I have stood between the two, helpless before the baying masses, but rigidly constrained by the iron wall of police...
England's solution lies with those like Stephen, the black children who can still race across the football pitch with white children. During the riot, as I frantically shouted my story above the screams of the protesters to my editor on the other end of the line. I watched a tough, black man with a scarred face and missing eye--wounds from a fight that must have happened years earlier. He carried a large photograph of the smiling Stephen in his M*A*S*H shirt, shouting racist epithets to incite the crowd. I silently compared the two men, Stephen...
Part of the reason for Riot Grrrl's impact is that it often focused on the issue of childhood sexual abuse. Not only did the songs relate harrowing personal experiences but the band members started 'zines and websites through which teenagers who had been molested could communicate with one another. Riot Grrrl's concerns paralleled those of feminists in the grownup world who, around the same time, also became preoccupied with sexual abuse and self-help (even Steinem got in on the act with her 1992 book, Revolution from Within). But many of those grownups, who called themselves feminist therapists...