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When the MPs reassembled, the opposition members – now joined by MPs from a rival regional party – marched towards the Speaker’s desk, making even more noise.
Just before the state elections, tens of thousands of farmers from around the country marched on the national capital, New Delhi, demanding that their grievances be addressed.
Thousands marched in protest to the National Assembly in June, and the amendment has since been withdrawn.
In the “Great Waltz” of July 1944 – which the Novgorod event will reenact – 57,000 German prisoners of war were marched through the streets of Moscow, Stalin’s goal being to humiliate the Germans and remind Muscovites of their hatred for their enemies.
Perhaps the greatest display of this political schizophrenia took place last month in Red Square, where a witch’s brew of Red “Victory” flags, tri-color “Imperial” flags, Stalin portraits, and Orthodox icons marched side by side during the 60th anniversary celebration marking WWII’s end.
Afghanistan’s Feminist RevolutionOn April 16, more than 300 Afghani women – many of them students – marched together in Kabul in protest of a new law passed by Parliament that would impose a series of Taliban-like restrictions on women.
The women, facing a crowd of furious men calling them “whores” and other epithets, marched two miles under a rain of abuse and delivered their petition against the law to legislators.
If one of those courageous Afghan women who marched in Kabul wrote – as I hope she or one of her sisters in the developing world is doing right now – the seminal text for the next 50 years on non-Western feminism, it would no doubt be equality-driven and practical.
They marched weekly for years, forcing public discussion of human rights abuses under the dictatorship.
In India, they have marched to raise awareness of widespread sexual assault.
In violation of a centuries-long tradition of university autonomy, the police marched onto campus, beat up students, and arrested a large number of demonstrators.
Governments marched to the center of economic life.
Still others – including the 700,000 people who marched through London in October – think that there should be a “people’s vote” on any final exit deal.
But they marched to fix the system, not to tear it down and replace it with something else.
The Ukrainian demonstrators marched against their government, not Russia’s.
At one demonstration, 60,000 participants marched against Article 23--the largest protests in Hong Kong since the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations.
Yet an estimated 17 million Egyptians marched to protest Morsi’s government, the majority of them citizens who had been mobilized through a petition process to demand a government responsive to their needs.
Through it all, China’s leadership did not follow any guidebook and resolutely marched to the beat of its own drummer.
Rarely in history has a national movement marched to its Promised Land with such a brilliant display of diplomatic savoir-faire and military skill as the Zionists did on their way to statehood.
At the euphoric outset of the 1989 demonstrations, more than 80,000 students marched through the streets of Beijing demanding a more responsive government.
As free Iraqis document the quarter-century nightmare of Saddam's rule, we must not forget who supported this war and who did not, who held that the international community's moral authority was enshrined in pleas for more time for the UN arms inspectors, and who marched against "regime change".
Decent, thoughtful, high-minded, the millions who marched against holding Iraq to account were catalyzed by the idea that only the UN Security Council has the authority to legitimize the resort to force.
As they marched toward Wenceslas Square, bearing candles, riot police cut them off, and many – men, women, children—were brutally beaten.
For on Bastille Day, a small Polish contingent marched down the Champs de Elysée alongside the forces of 26 other EU national contingents, including the Germans, in a display of European unity.
The hundreds of thousands who marched to Tahrir Square on the revolution’s anniversary will guarantee that.
Given that the two Koreas marched together in three Olympic Games since 2000, prudence is advisable.
During the Women’s March on Washington, up to two million people marched in solidarity around the world.
But Obama has marched the US and its allies too far down the current path.
The lawyers marched, sang, danced, and exchanged their briefcases for signs and, occasionally, eggs and stones.
While the Brexiteers are peddling increasingly divisive – even violent – rhetoric, hundreds of thousands of “Remainers” recently marched through London, calling for a “people’s vote” to approve whatever exit deal the government proposes.
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