Word: protestations
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...uncompromising environmental activist; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Brower helped transform the Sierra Club from a 7,000-member club into one of America's most influential environmental groups. He later founded Friends of the Earth, the League of Conservation Voters and the Earth Island Institute. He resigned in protest from the Sierra Club board several times. "The world is burning," he said, "and all I hear from them is the music of violins...
...group of about 40 Boston area residents and college students gathered in Copley Square last evening to protest U.S. military involvement in Latin America...
...protest was organized by a conglomeration of small social action organizations, including the Latinos and Latinas for Social Change and the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES...
Watson said the protest was held in conjunction with similar demonstrations in Latin America and in Georgia...
...language art or manipulation of found objects, these artists saw their work as vehicles for dissent, stand-ins for forbidden speech and catalysts for thought. This is, in itself, another major problem with Global Conceptualism: the contradiction of a museum exhibition of works of art which were intended as protests against museums. Yoko Ono's "Painting in Three Stanzas," for instance, was meant as a set of instructions for the creation of a painting, not as an art object itself. Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg's "Life with Pop," in which the two artists sat in a Dsseldorf department store...