protest
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"This gathering is not simply about standing up for journalists," veteran journalist Zafer Arapkirli told AFP after the Istanbul protest.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
For fans who made the trip, the combination of America’s favorite sport with France’s tradition of public protest has created an odd dissonance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Just like the protest movement from which it developed, the Student List has no hierarchy or nominated leader.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Proud as the French are of their politics being rooted in street demonstrations, many in Limoges felt the town hall's destruction went far beyond the parameters of reasonable protest.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
I was only ten, he wanted to protest.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Calls to defy the bans on protests in the city centre had circulated on social media.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Coverage of the French protests continue on the front page, where a large rally in Marseille is pictured under the headline "France on the March".
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
In Paris, shopkeepers boarded up windows and installed metal security gates ahead of Saturday’s protests, even as some were still repairing damage from last weekend’s unrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
But it also describes what happened in the U.S. in the 1960s, when protests over racism, the Vietnam War, and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. sometimes escalated into riots.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
He asked if he was, in fact, the same Theodore Graham who had been arrested during the protests at Fort Lawton.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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Some protested specific projects, notably the World Bank-backed Pak Mun dam, a hydropower project completed in 1994 that fishing communities say damaged their livelihoods.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Survivors, students and advocates rallied and protested in communities and on college campuses across more than 40 states.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The next morning, she protested her neighbor for the first time, grabbing a sign that said “Justice for All” and paddling back and forth in front of his home, hoping he would see.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Garvaghy Road had been part of the Drumcree parade route but by the mid 1990s nationalist residents protested against it.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“You must stand off from him,” Matthewson protested.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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Police fired tear gas to disperse about 150 people protesting in the southeastern city of Lyon, in an area banned to all demonstrations, an AFP journalist saw.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting in the streets.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
Weeks of student-led protests over conditions in the country’s schools morphed into a broader movement that drew people of all ages protesting the rising cost of living.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Shahiza Huseynova, a mother who was protesting outside a school in the Mashtaga district of the capital, was detained on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
I stop protesting because it’s three against one.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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