So, it's a way to protest, it's a way to resist, and it's a way to get to the world to say here, this is who we really are.
This is not only a new age of protest, it is also the age of social.
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Although thousands of union members turned out at the capitol to protest, it was an open-and-shut case.
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Yet, Americans will protest, it is still near the bottom of the pile.
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The young people stealing flat screen televisions and burning shops that was not about politics or protest, it was about theft.
But his recent habit has been to float an idea, endure the storm of protest about it, and then go ahead anyway.
The site in Northgate was home to Sedgemoor Splash which was the subject of much protest when it was closed in August 2009.
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Now seems like a good time to agitate for a change: the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has pledged to enhance the rights to peaceful protest that it claims Labour eroded.
Having donated to a foreign-language learning program at my sons' school, for example, I felt motivated to write letters of protest when it became threatened by the school board.
Whenever anything radically new is proposed, such as Daniel Libeskind's cubist spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum, there are howls of protest that it does not fit in.
There were reports of violent outbreaks on the outskirts of the protest as it reached central Paris, with dozens of youths throwing bottles and lighting fires in a main shopping street.
And this week, Verizon kicked off a roundelay of protest when it announced that existing customers would have to give up their unlimited plans when they upgraded to the new 4g LTE network.
Whilst many will argue with many aspects of the Thatcher legacy - and some will, no doubt, protest about it today - that is an analysis which few will contest - though, of course, any consensus can be broken and re-made just as privatisation did to the previously widespread belief in the value of nationalisation.
"It is a traditional midterm protest vote and it's found its lightning conductor through UKIP, " Travers said.
But UKIP believes it can offer more than just protest, and perhaps it's testament to the party's rise that the more established parties are looking to address that threat.
The Occupy London protest group says it has taken over a fifth site in London.
"Some African Americans are still doing protest art because it sells well, " he told Hurst.
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It came as the firm served an eviction notice on a protest camp, which it said was "illegal, unsafe and disruptive".
The most ringing endorsement of Oren's appearance that Mizrachi could muster in response to Sussman's latest attack was to say that it was a waste of time to protest his appearance and that it "would truly be a disgrace to our university, " if protesters were to shout Oren down at commencement.
On Wednesday night, the company announced plans that made that fact painfully clear and being that Google evidently weighed the decision beforehand, it is unlikely that any protest, no matter how long it trends on Twitter, will get Google to change its mind.
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Campaigners have been camping in a south London playground to protest against plans refurbish it.
Conservative councillor Peter Bedford, who lost his seat to a UKIP candidate, called it a protest vote.
Bob McCauley, a member of the Boston Protest Group, said it wanted to make its point legally.
Villagers objected to the removal of the tree and two people later climbed and occupied it in protest.
The long-running conflict escalated in July when the selected squad for the two-Test series with Bangladesh boycotted it in protest.
However, Robin Newton, of the Democratic Unionist Party, said a lack of engagement from protest organisers was making it difficult to see an end to the unrest.
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PayPal changed its mind not because it respects free speech but because it got caught with its ethical trousers down and enough people cared about it to protest.
Just because the analogy to sit-ins breaks down, that does not mean that DDoS cannot be a form of political protest, nor that it cannot have an effect.
With President Barack Obama speaking out against the Stop Online Piracy Act and a looming Internet blackout to protest the act, it looks like SOPA is as good as dead.
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