protest
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Shaw has showed up at track meets to protest Hernandez’s participation — which Hernandez’s mother has called threatening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Sunday's protest was organised by relatives of victims, local businesses, civil society groups and the Catholic church.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
It was noticeable many songs were sung in direct protest against Ratcliffe, as well as the Glazers.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Here’s a recent Associated Press headline: “Lyft and Uber drivers protest Waymo robotaxis.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
I start to protest, but she doesn’t stop pointing until I begrudgingly unload my homework on the coffee table.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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The club declined to comment on the protests.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
He also was a political activist who took part in protests against Myanmar’s military in 1988.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Xi's visit was the target of protests by dozens of Tibetans in New Delhi, exiles like their Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since fleeing a Chinese crackdown in 1959.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has an AI data center reporting website with 9,580 locations—suitable for finding protests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Someone in the back of the class—it sounds like Amy Teen—says, “But why are the protests so angry?”
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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Workers and retirees in the telecommunications, oil and teaching sectors have protested deteriorating living conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Tung era reached low points in July 2003 when 500,000 people protested against restrictive anti-subversion laws proposed by China, and again a year later when about the same number rallied for democracy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
She spoke out for the legalisation of abortion, same-sex marriage, and equal rights and pay for women, and protested against the death penalty and female genital mutilation.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Nithya has stood with us and our members through many fights,” Petersen said, noting that Raman was arrested as she protested with Unite Here workers in 2023 during their contract negotiations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
“It is an albatross ’round my neck!” he protested, but he also did as he was told.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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On the ground, though, the people protesting in Albania are against something much bigger.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
She has obtained more than 2,200 signatures on an online petition protesting its relocation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Residents in Gilroy, Calif., are protesting a $2 billion Amazon data center that was approved without public meetings or votes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Many Americans are out in the streets protesting and putting themselves on the line.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Durham, shut down by students protesting Jim Crow segregation on February 8, 1960.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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