Word: protested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...apparently, city officials changed their minds, forcing the protesters to cut short their 100-hour protest just 40 hours after it began yesterday morning...
...Heard: “But it really is art. You can’t pay any attention to the materialistic constructions of mainstream society. Didn’t you come to Harvard to protest the suppression of creative intellect...
...Fresh from Washington D.C. where she went last weekend to “stand tall with people who were fighting various forms of repression,” Rebecca Reider ’00 has the pocket of a true protest princess. A pin in her jeans rebelliously rings “Subvert the Dominant Paradigm: “[It’s] a slogan that’s been a dominant theme in my life...
...gloss, or an apology, applied to something that is nothing like Eden. Cities tend to create such places (find the tulips in New York City's Madison Square Garden) as a sort of nostalgic glance at the rural world they supplanted. If the farmers had not carted their bucolic protest to Paris on that day, the citizens there, like people in cities everywhere else, would have continued to conduct their life disconnected from anything in nature, much less paradise...
When Bob Hunter, right, and Paul Watson joined buddies in Vancouver in 1971 to protest U.S. nuclear testing in the Arctic, they didn't realize they were setting off their own explosion. Calling themselves Greenpeace, the Canadians went on to stage demonstrations against sealing and whaling, all with media-savvy stunts, like hovering over a seal pup in front of a huge icebreaker. Even so, Watson quit Greenpeace as too timid and started the more radical Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose tactics include ramming whaling ships. Eventually Hunter quit as well, but the two left a big legacy: a wavemaking...