Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...were grumbling privately about the trial. When 300 prominent artists and intellectuals began a 48-hour sit-in at the Abbey of Montserrat near Barcelona, the center of Spain's Catalan autonomy movement, officials demanded that Abbot Cassia Mauro just throw them all out on grounds that the protest was "a provocation." Replied the burly abbot: "So was the Burgos court-martial...
...serve them. A bus conductor told one power man: "Your lot have put me to a stack of inconvenience. Get off and walk." One of the few signs of support came from unionized workers at London's Evening Standard who walked out and halted late editions in protest against a drawing they considered objectionable. The cartoon pictured the E.T.U. worker as "Homo-electrical-sapiens Britannicus, circa 1970"−with head of "solid bone," eyes "green with envy," ears "deaf to reason," mouth "permanently open," hand "always out," and only a hole where his heart should...
During the blackout, beleaguered Britons also had to endure a 24-hour nationwide strike by 350,000 workers protesting the government's proposed Industrial Relations Reform Act, which comes up for debate this week in the House of Commons. The Carr bill, so named for Employment and Productivity Minister Robert Carr, aims at legally preventing wildcat work stoppages. Though the bill is anathema to many union members, only a fraction of Britain's 24 million organized workers left their jobs in protest...
...held in which the pro-government party, ARENA, won 70% of the 310 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. ARENA'S victory against tame, regime-approved opposition candidates was not surprising, but neither was it convincing. A terrorist plea for the casting of blank ballots as a protest gesture, meanwhile, was totally ignored. Brazil's 30 million voters seemed determined to turn thumbs down on the terrorists, if not quite thumbs up for the generals...
Lazarus and Ballard said that some students plan to protest the decision by boycotting their seminars next semester and others hope to take the course as an extra-curricular activity...