Word: protestations
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Robert Robinson, a NORML staff member from New Paltz, New York, stood at the main entryway and shouted in protest of the BPD's frisking...
...successor, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), raises subway fares from 85 cents to one dollar. Even at a dollar the fare will remain one of the lowest in the nation, and the T's announcement of its first fare hike in almost a decade met only half-hearted protest from environmental and transportation advocacy groups...
...Limp Bizkit accepted the Best Rock video award. Cameras quickly cut away, but the bassist kept a Wayans family-size phalanx of security at bay for 10 minutes before being hauled down and charged with suspicion of assault and resisting arrest. Rage Against the Machine is renowned as a protest act, but this act of protest had even other musicians stumped. "What exactly is he raging against?" mused Kid Rock. "Podiums...
...place to begin to agree is before conception. The abortion debate begins at that instant--no conception, no fetus to be aborted and hence no debate over the rights of the unborn. (Some religious groups do press for protection even of the unconceived and protest the use of contraceptives; I challenge them to accept a compromise on acceptance of contraception as essential to reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies and hence potential abortions...
Gore had to pause after thanking Kennedy for his opening remarks when the protest group began chanting, "Al Gore's a corporate puppet." But they were quickly drowned out by cheers of "Go, Al, Go" by supporters...