protesting

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He expressed his frustration at those chants, and chairman Alan Pace supported Parker in a BBC Football Focus interview - comparing protesting fans to children.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

In a democracy, violence should never be the response to political circumstances when voting, protesting, and many other forms of civic engagement are permitted.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2026

Five weeks ago, Becerra and other candidates of color were protesting their exclusion from a USC debate because they were all polling so low.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

“I think protesting, I think sharing information, I think doing podcasts like this, that needs to come way before we even consider that.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 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