Word: protested
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Corpzilla's organizers say it is also a protest against the corruption of politics by corporate and special interest money, one of the foremost complaints in Philadelphia this week, a cause around which both Republican Senator John S. McCain and artist Melina Hammer can rally...
...deal with the city did, however, maintain peace throughout the day. The only injury occurred when an abortion-rights protester jumped in front of a slowly moving camper which served as headquarters for an anti-abortion group. The religious crowd had spent the day further up the Ben Franklin Parkway in a counter-protest holding "Abortion Kills Children" signs, shouting at UNITY2000 demonstrators, and pointing out communists for passing members of the press...
...protest annoyed many. A man in a white polo shirt, the casual Republican uniform, stood near the open door of his green BMW sedan talking speaking on a cell phone...
...Quiet in the Protest...
Despite rumors of more aggressive protests, Tuesday morning was hot and uneventful. At the First Union Center, behind three walls of eight-foot chain-link fence, were police in cars every 30 feet. Franklin D. Roosevelt park, where the March For Economic Human Rights had ended the day before, was enclosed by another perimeter of fencing, and more police. Only one entrance, at 20th Street, remained open. At the southwest corner, more than 300 yards from the convention center across a highway, a parking lot, four more fences and hundred of police, was a fenced-in enclosure dubbed "the protest...