Word: protested
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...would be easy to dismiss his choices in college as reflecting the apathy of one who would always rather party than protest, but some of his classmates have a different theory. The all-or-nothing, in-your-face politics of the street was uncomfortable for someone from a family who didn't like conflict of any kind. "If you were not with the pack, there was no room for you--all the gradations were lost," says a contemporary. "But he was skeptical of the groupthink; he stayed independent of the mob." One reason some classmates didn't realize how bright...
...mischief. And from what I can tell, the animal-loving freaks at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are the only ones having any fun. So I called Tracy Reiman, leader of peta's Commando Chicks, a group of women who dress in skimpy showgirl outfits to protest chicken eating. These women were willing to degrade themselves for animals. That...
...Tuesday afternoon, except for six plain-clothes police officers and a podium, the protest pit was empty. One speaker, Cole H. Kleitsch of the Walking Civics group, knelt off to one side and gathered his belongings after he had finished his time at the podium. He warned the audience of six police about the evils of political parties taking quotes from George Washington's 1796 farewell address, in which Washington spoke of the same theme...
...city was kind enough to give us the spot and so I came and did my protest," he said...
...threw unidentified fluids in the faces of the police. Then, there were the black-suited members of groups like Black Bloc and the Upside Down Clowns whose agenda appeared to be petty vandalism and Republican harassment outside the Doubletree Hotel. One group which denied being part of any protest and said it was a jogging club, ran the streets in red dresses, flipping cartwheels in what appeared to be a protest against underwear. Another group, called "Billionaires For Bush (or Gore)" -one wearing top hats and brocaded dresses--lampooned the high hand of money in politics. Their slogan: "Because inequality...