Protest in sentence

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And I had this weblink that could be shared through social media, could be put in any website, and that time, the protest went along fine.

And I learned something else, that that was actually the first time that somebody had ever done a livestreaming in a street protest in the country.

So recently, we heard a lot about how social media helps empower protest, and that's true, but after more than a decade of studying and participating in multiple social movements, I've come to realize that the way technology empowers social movements can also paradoxically help weaken them.

So when, a year later, Turkey's Gezi protests happened, it started as a protest about a park being razed, but became an anti-authoritarian protest.

Less than one month after the first physical occupation in Zuccotti Park, a global protest was held in about 82 countries, 950 cities.

Now, compare that to what the Civil Rights Movement had to do in 1955 Alabama to protest the racially segregated bus system, which they wanted to boycott.

They were threatened with deportation, but they broke out of their work compound and they marched from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., to protest labor exploitation.

"Notepad" is an act of protest and an act of commemoration disguised as an everyday tablet of paper.

Let's see if we, in the civilized world, can protest against what he did through insulting him in his search results."

If you picture-Googled for him weeks after the July 22 events from Sweden, you'd see that picture of dog poop high up in the search results, as a little protest.

And on the 3rd of July 2013, the army ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, after three days of popular protest that demanded his resignation.

We complain, we tweet, we protest about the police, about sentencing laws and about prison.

Before now, if you wanted to be heard by your possibly tyrannical government, you were pushed to protest, suffer the consequences and have your fingers crossed that some Western paper somewhere might make someone care.

Years ago they held a protest.

And protest is only one.

This was a protest vote for many, a sense that nobody represented them, that they couldn't find a political party that spoke for them, and so they rejected that political establishment.

And Zelda wanted to protest, saying they had no right to his respect after this injustice they had caused him.

[Remain Incomplete] Recently I was in Paris, and a friend of mine took me to Nuit Debout, which stands for "up all night," the self-organized protest movement that had formed in response to the proposed labor laws in France.

Like Occupy Wall Street and other protest movements, Nuit Debout was born in the face of crisis.

And there was a popular protest in Iceland, so the sitting president thought they needed a trusted leader.

We comment on the news, we post our views on social media, we march, we protest ... But who among us is working on solutions, big solutions to big issues, like gun violence, mistreatment of workers, flood, famine, drought?

They regularly protest about the issues they care about, but nuclear weapons are not one of them, which makes sense, because Jasmine was born in 1991, at the end of the Cold War.

In the face of so much hatred and ignorance against those in the Middle East, every moment on site felt like a protest for peace.

Take, for instance, when Black Lives Matter protesters go out to protest unjust killings of black citizens by police, and the pictures that emerge from the protest look like they could have been taken 50 years ago.

They can't criticize the government, organize a protest, and it's also forbidden to post a kind of emoticon to remember the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

From baseball games to military funerals, we trekked across the country with neon protest signs in hand to tell others exactly how "unclean" they were and exactly why they were headed for damnation.

I clammed up and violently shook my head in protest.

The right to protest, the right to assemble freely, the right to petition one's government, these are not just rights.

When I would call my family in Tehran during some of the most violent crackdowns of the protest, none of them dared discuss with me what was happening.

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