Word: counterprotest
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Others at the meeting recommended a middle ground, suggesting that awareness and counterprotest events should be held, but indoors, away from the church group picketers...
...class professionals who took to hanging their washing lines over Government House's hedge topiaries - clapped as their leaders called for the government's downfall. But after a week, the celebratory mood began to fade. On Sept. 2, after a deadly street battle erupted between the PAD and a counterprotest group, Samak declared a state of emergency. The decree didn't deter many in the antigovernment camp. "When the party is over, we are ready to fight," vowed Jantana Klinchan, a sandwich vendor from Saraburi province, as she swayed to a folk song calling for political change...
Students for Israel set up a counterprotest that afternoon, arguing that security concerns in Israel merited the use of checkpoints...
...antiforeigner violence that has spread across their nation this year, 300,000 German demonstrators -- nearly four times the number expected -- converged in Berlin's Lustgarten to rally for goodwill. But in full view of world media, the demonstration turned into an ugly spectacle of egg-splatting, paint-bombing counterprotest -- staged not by the neo-Nazi right, whose xenophobia prompted the march in the first place, but by some 400 left-wing anarchists. Chancellor Helmut Kohl was forced to abandon the procession shortly after beginning it. More enduring was the image of Germany's distinguished President, Richard von Weizsacker, his coat...
...students staged a satiric counterprotest yesterday against Concerned Christians at Harvard (CCH), a group which is calling for the removal of the Rev. Peter J. Gomes as minister of Memorial Church...