The White House yesterday confirmed that it had cancelled a poetry symposium after a number of American poets threatened to turn the event into an anti-war protest.
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At one extreme, the Supreme Court extended First Amendment protection to the words of a man who physically resisted arrest during an anti-war protest at a draft induction center.
The critique comes most strenuously from liberals in the U.S. who protest the war in Iraq.
Its leader Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui called on community elders and leaders to "channel the disquiet felt by the youth over the war into a peaceful protest campaign".
In March he postponed what should have been the biggest US tour of his career to protest against the war in Iraq.
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He said Rumsfeld's comments vindicated his decision to resign from his Cabinet job as leader of the House of Commons in protest against the war.
The biggest post-war union demonstrations took place in the early 1990s in protest against them.
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He resigned from the German government in 1992 in protest at Europe's inability to halt the war in the former Yugoslavia.
The lunchtime protest in Cardiff - organised by the Stop the War Coalition - had converged on the Aneurin Bevan statue in Queen Street from Cardiff University.
There was no such protest about Mr Libeskind's glass-shards war museum in Manchester, because it sits amidst cleared industrial dereliction as, indeed, do all the new buildings on the Tyne.
They include Andrew Wilkie, a former Canberra intelligence official who resigned in protest over the government's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence and who is standing for the Greens.
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Medea Benjamin, a protest leader, said they're urging Democrats who oppose the war to reject the spending bill as well.
Within hours, thousands of university students demanding his death poured into the streets of Dhaka, the seeds of what has grown into a mass protest that has exposed again the unhealed wounds from the nation's 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.
About 250 people turned out for the protest march, organised by the North East London Council of Action, from Chase Green war memorial through Enfield town centre to the hospital.
Dr Tutu's withdrawal comes as the local Muslim party Al Jama-ah is reported to be planning a protest against Mr Blair's participation at the event because of his support for the Iraq war.
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Protest leaders in the US want to generate the kind of opposition that was expressed against the Vietnam War 30 years ago.
As some of the cases at the special tribunal into war crimes have reached their final stages, there are concerns that Jamaat-e-Islami may intensify its protest.
When the Estonian government announced that it was relocating a Soviet war monument in Tallinn, the country's capital, the local Russian community took to the streets in protest.
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