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Soon after saying his customary dawn prayers, Mahatma Gandhi emerged from his ashram to greet a crowd of thousands gathered to witness the start of his latest and most defiant protest against the "curse" of British rule. A volunteer band raised its horns and, it was reported, blared a few bars of God Save the King before it apparently dawned on the musicians that a rousing salute to the English sovereign was not the most appropriate send-off. Their fading notes were overtaken by the sound of coconuts being smashed together, a traditional Hindu sign of devotion...
Rosa Parks was tired after a hard day as a seamstress in the basement of the Montgomery Fair department store in Montgomery, Ala., and she had to run a youth-group meeting later that night for her local N.A.A.C.P., which had been trying to find a way to protest the city's segregation laws. Still, Parks didn't get right on the bus when she left work that Thursday evening. The bus stop was crowded, so she headed to a drugstore to shop for an electric heating pad, thinking she would be able to get a seat home...
...They could not be easily ferreted out--or understood. But Oklahoma City also wrote the book on recovery. The survivors have become indispensable companions for the families of 9/11 victims. And the memorial to the tragedy shows that traumatized cities can unite, as author Edward Linenthal puts it, "to protest the anonymity of mass death." --By Amanda Ripley
Nothing slows down a mass movement like nuance. Many protest groups realized that the hunger for antiwar sentiment subsided the moment that U.S. troops were put in peril. "The mood changes," says Claire Gorfinkel, who co-chairs Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, a Pasadena, Calif., coalition with a 1,000-member mailing list. At rallies and marches, Gorfinkel says, passersby are less willing to flash peace signs and honk car horns. "My hunch is that there will be a reassessment on a broad scale throughout society for a period of time, a pendulum swing, if you will...
...Abbas, 30, a carpenter and father of two, says his whole family was mowed down at once. His story: Fedayeen in civilian clothes rolled an antiaircraft gun into his backyard. Abbas, having seen his neighbor protest and get a bullet in the head in front of his children, didn't say a word. "They started firing at American helicopters," he says. "The Americans started returning fire ... We had to leave...