John Lewis staging a sit-in Nashville in the 1960s v John Lewis staging a sit-in in Washington in 2016 pic.twitter.
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Seventeen demonstrators were arrested on Monday while staging a sit-in against Sen.
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Eleven of them were arrested after staging a sit-in to protest a cut in their perks.
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On Tuesday, members of the NAACP protested his nomination by staging a sit-in in his Mobile office.
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John Lewis of Georgia, who are staging a sit-in to demand a vote to address gun violence.
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Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor to push for action on gun control legislation.
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You may have heard that the Democrats in Congress are staging a sit-in to demand gun control legislation.
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Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor to demand a vote on their gun control bills.
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Google employees are staging a sit-in tomorrow to protest the alleged retaliation toward employees at the hands of managers.
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Democratic members of the House of Representatives protested by staging a sit-in on the floor of their debating chamber.
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It's Wednesday evening here in Washington, where Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor over gun control.
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Police this morning used water cannons to push out a group of protesters staging a sit-in on a city street.
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The city's airport reopened on Tuesday after operations were crippled on Monday due to demonstrators staging a sit-in at the airport.
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Local businesses and tradesmen were distributing free food and water to demonstrators staging a sit-in in the streets, multiple eyewitnesses told CNN.
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With the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 and Congress staging a sit-in, our funding allows for only a top-ten list this week.
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When Ms. Abula settled into the front yard with her children, the staff complained that she was staging a "sit-in," Mr. Branders said.
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Government headquarters ADMIRALTY 500 FEET Hong Kong ADMIRALTY Victoria Harbour Police cleared a row of demonstrators staging a sit-in at Hong Kong Station.
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Sarandon, 71, took part in the rally at the Department of Justice, staging a sit-in at the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building.
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A GOP representative on Wednesday slammed the Democrats for staging a sit-in on the House floor to push for action on gun control legislation.
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Democrats seized the floor and the political spotlight on gun control Wednesday, staging a sit-in that shut down the House and C-SPAN's cameras.
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Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to support the Green New Deal, to Ocasio-Cortez encouraging climate protesters staging a sit-in in House speaker Nancy Pelosi's office.
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Democratic members of Congress have been staging a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives for three hours to demand action on gun violence.
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Democrats in the US House of Representatives are staging a sit-in on the House floor, calling for their Republican colleagues to vote on gun control legislation.
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What was taboo was not sitting with a black activist at a white-only lunch counter or staging a sit-in against the bureaucratic machinery of war.
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Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake is staging a sit-in outside the Nigerian High Commission in central London to put pressure on the Nigerian government, he says.
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House Republicans will attempt to wrest control of the House from Democrats staging a sit-in over gun control with a vote to override President Obama's fiduciary rule.
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Paris police teargassed protesters staging a sit-in to demand action on climate change at point-blank range Friday, on a day when temperatures in France topped 110 degrees.
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On Tuesday, nearly 50 people protesting the planned repeal of the ACA were arrested after staging a sit-in outside of the office of GOP senator Orrin Hatch of Utah.
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Democrats have used other tactics to keep their priorities in the spotlight before, including staging a sit-in on the House floor after a mass shooting at an Orlando, Fla.
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Led by Khadim Hussain Rizvi of the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan party, at least 3,000 protesters were staging a sit-in on one of the main highways leading to the capital.
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She says she witnessed one sham trial firsthand when she and other civil rights activists were arrested after staging a sit-in at a lunch counter that refused to serve blacks.
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Harcourt Rd. Government headquarters ADMIRALTY 500 FEET Areas occupied by protesters Areas closed by police Hong Kong Police cleared a row of demonstrators staging a sit-in at Hong Kong Station.
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House Democrats are staging a sit-in today in an effort to push their Republican colleagues to vote for a gun control bill that would exclude suspected terrorists from purchasing automatic weapons.
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Image 2 of 2 WARSAW, Poland – Hundreds of people have gathered in Warsaw on Mother&aposs Day in Poland to show solidarity with parents of disabled children staging a sit-in inside parliament.
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C-SPAN turned to Periscope and Facebook Live on Wednesday for coverage of Democrats staging a sit-in on gun control on the House floor after GOP leadership cut off the chamber's cameras.
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WARSAW, Poland – Former Polish president and anti-communist leader Lech Walesa is meeting with disabled people who have been staging a sit-in at the parliament for over a month, offering them his solidarity.
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Kim Kardashian West is supporting House Democrats staging a sit-in on the House floor, adding her voice to the chorus of people calling for Congress to stay in session until they pass legislation on gun control.
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By the evening, just a few streets over from the clashes, a couple hundred people tried a different technique, staging a sit-in at the police cordon, hoping for some sign that the students inside were okay.
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Princeton has been the scene of racial unrest for other reasons in recent months, with students staging a sit-in at the university president's office in an effort to combat what they said were racial tensions on campus.
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Last week, fifty-one young people were arrested in Nancy Pelosi's office for staging a sit-in, demanding that the Democrats embrace a "Green New Deal" that would address the global climate crisis with policies to create jobs in renewable energy.
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At least 8,000 police officers in riot gear and a separate paramilitary police force that had encircled the approximately 2,000 protesters began trying to clear the protesters staging a sit-in on the main interchange in the city early on Saturday.
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Many blame it for the massacre of June 3rd, when militiamen killed more than 100 people and raped and looted their way across the capital after being set loose on peaceful protesters who had been staging a sit-in outside the army's headquarters.
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The US House of Representatives' Democrats have taken the floor, quite literally — since Wednesday just before noon, they've been staging a sit-in on the House floor in an attempt to get the chamber's Republicans to hold a vote on gun control legislation.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims are staging a sit-in protest in China's western region of Ningxia against government plans to demolish a huge new mosque, amid tightening curbs on Islam to pull its practice in line with the Chinese mainstream.
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Democrats, led by Lewis and Pelosi, have been staging a sit-in on the House floor since Wednesday morning, demanding a vote on gun control measures in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting where a gunman opened fire and killed 49 people.
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"Sometimes I wonder, what if Greta Thunberg's mother had not wanted to have children because of climate change?" said Day, referring to the 16-year-old girl who has inspired youth climate protests worldwide, after staging a sit-in outside the Swedish parliament every Friday.
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More than 500 people, including at least one member of Congress, were arrested and escorted from the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday after staging a sit-in during a women-led march against the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" approach to illegal immigration.
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Hundreds of mostly young people surrounded police headquarters in the city's Wan Chai district Friday, after blocking several roads in the area and near government offices in Admiralty, where they had been staging a sit-in demanding the city's chief executive, Carrie Lam, resign and officially withdraw the bill.
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Sunrise, which has more than a hundred local chapters, has focused on direct confrontations to draw media attention and pressure lawmakers to embrace the Green New Deal, including staging a sit-in in Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE's (D-Calif.) office attended by Ocasio-Cortez.
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Dozens of elderly activists demanding campaign finance reform were arrested Tuesday for staging a sit-in outside the Capitol Building as part of the week-long Democracy Spring protests happening in Washington, DC. According to the US Capitol Police, 85 activists were taken cheerfully and willingly into custody, on top of the more than 400 protesters who were arrested during a sit-in on Monday.
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In June, British designers began to publicly declare their anti-"Brexit" stance using the London men's wear shows as their soapbox, with one designer, Daniel W. Fletcher, not only staging a sit-in outside the official show site but also dressing his protesters in "stay" hoodies and T-shirts, and the Sibling designers Sid Bryan and Cozette McCreery likewise donning slogan tees to take their post-collection bows.
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Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE (R-Ala.), where they had been staging a sit-in to protest his selection as President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's attorney general.
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Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump, arrives at the secure offices of the House Intelligence Committee on March 28, in Washington, DC. Senator Martha McSally speaks about her sexual assault while serving the United States Air Force, during a Senate Armed Service Committee on prevention and response to sexual assaults in the military, on March 22019, in Washington, DC. Dominique Harrell stands in solidarity as she joins other protesters staging a sit-in for Stephon Clark, who was killed by police, in Sacramento, California on March 28, following the Sacramento District Attorney's decision not to charge officers involved in last year's shooting of Clark.
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In 2014, 14 people protesting cuts to the earned income tax credits program and Tillis's refusal to expand Medicaid were arrested after staging a sit-in in his office.
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On 5 March, protests in the country have spread to Haima, a key oil region about southwest of the capital Muscat, with oil workers staging a sit-in and calling for more government investment in the area. There were also protests in Ibri during the month.Ministry of Manpower shut down forcibly in Sohar – Oman News. Muscat Daily.
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Protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline occurred at several places because of concerns about the pipeline's impact on the environment and to sites sacred to Native Americans. Indigenous nations around the country opposed the pipeline, along with the Sioux tribal nations. In North Dakota, next to and on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, nearly 15,000 people from around the world protested, staging a sit-in for months.
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In 1961, a group of nine African- American men was arrested for staging a sit-in at a segregated McCrory's lunch counter in Rock Hill. The group gained national attention and sparked many other sit-ins across the nation. A major goal of these "Jail, No Bail" protests was to strain the prison system and force integration. The group became known as the "Friendship Nine".
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200 people (South Wales Police estimate) brought Cardiff city centre traffic to a standstill leading to at least six arrests. There was a lunchtime anti- war demonstration on the Humber bridge in Hull which involved some friction between motorists and protesters. In Derry, up to a dozen anti-war protesters stormed the Raytheon defense technologies company building staging a sit-in until removed by police. Thousands joined a protest in Manchester.
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In 1968, Alberta NewStart was established in Lac La Biche as part of the federal government’s initiative to research basic adult education. NewStart offered instruction in areas as diverse as academic upgrading, trapping, wild fur management, and oilfield management. However, after several months the government decided to close the facility and cease the research. A group of Aboriginal students faced with the pending closure of their school decided to challenge the government by staging a sit-in.
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One of Johnson's most notable direct actions occurred in August 1970, staging a sit-in protest at Weinstein Hall at New York University alongside fellow GLF members after administrators canceled a dance when they found out was sponsored by gay organizations. Shortly after that, Johnson and close friend Sylvia Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) organization (initially titled Street Transvestites Actual Revolutionaries). The two of them became a visible presence at gay liberation marches and other radical political actions.
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White officials and local KKK members countered it with violence and intimidation to suppress black voters. In addition to the physical attacks on activists, Herbert Lee, an older member of the NAACP, was murdered in front of witnesses at a cotton gin in nearby Liberty, Mississippi, by white state representative E.H. Hurst. The attacker claimed self-defense and was exonerated by an all-white coroner's jury. In 1961, Brenda Travis, Robert Talbert, and Ike Lewis were arrested for staging a sit in at a Greyhound station. They were charged with trespassing and kept in jail for 28 days.
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Jesse Jackson, one of the Greenville Eight arrested for staging a sit-in at the public library in Greenville, SC. By 1960, public libraries in Columbia and Spartanburg integrated without much controversy, but the library system in Greenville remained segregated. Jesse Jackson, a Greenville native, who later became known for his civil rights activism, returned home from college over Christmas break during his freshman year at the University of Illinois. While in Greenville, Jackson required a book to write a research paper. The book Jackson needed was not available at the colored library branch, a one-room, dilapidated house on East McBee Avenue.
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Sievey grew up in Ashton-on-Mersey, Sale, Cheshire (2.5 miles from Timperley, the town with which Frank Sidebottom would be associated). In 1971 he decided on a career in music and hitch-hiked to London with his brother, staging a sit-in at the Apple Records HQ, demanding to see one of The Beatles.Robb, John (2009) The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City (1977–1996), Aurum, , p. 22 When they were asked to leave they insisted on recording something, and were booked into the studio after playing a song to head of A&R; Tony King.
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Around the turn of the millennium, the tower was the site of continual occupation by Mainland Chinese activists, led by Shi Junlong (), demanding right of abode in Hong Kong. At 2:00 pm on 2 August 2000, visa overstayers petitioned immigration officers to issue them Hong Kong Identity Cards on the spot. The officers refused on the basis of the law, and told them to apply in writing. They refused to leave, staging a sit-in until closing time at 6:00 pm when staff attempted to evict the protesters, who responded by splashing highly flammable paint thinner around the 13th storey and setting it ablaze with cigarette lighters.
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CFA was slated to close at the end of the 2010-2011 school year by order of the Emergency Manager of the Detroit Public Schools, Robert Bobb, if a buyer could not be found. The closure or sale was part of the Emergency Manager's deficit reduction plan to consolidate public high schools and increase class sizes to 60 students by 2013. A buyer was not found by the spring of 2011, and the school was scheduled to be shuttered. CFA students and teachers protested the decision by staging a sit-in and occupying the school during spring break, with 10 of the protesters arrested by the Detroit Police on April 16, 2011.
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By mid-1984 a number of environmental opinion leaders, among them Freda Meissner-Blau, started a campaign which sought to overturn the decision. A Volksbegehren (citizen's petition) was launched and a media campaign began to attempt to inform the public of the environmental risks posed by the project. As a leading figure in the campaign, Meissner-Blau took part in the organization of mass protests during the latter half of 1984, culminating in almost over 8000 staging a sit-in at the worksite on December 8, 1984. The government attempted to restart work at the site by using federal police to clear the protesters on December 19, however the events escalated into violence and hundreds of protesters were injured.
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After staging a sit-in protest in front of the main door, a banner with a photo of police chief Lawrence Cutajar accompanied with the words "No change, no justice – irrizenja (resign)" was placed on the headquarters' gate. On 17 April 2018, a consortium of 45 journalists from 18 news organisations, including The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde and the Times of Malta, published The Daphne Project, a collaborative effort to complete Caruana Galizia's investigative work. After her death, crowds gathered in front of the Law Courts, to mourn and express solidarity with the Caruana Galizia family and to demand justice. The Great Siege Monument became a focal point for protests and calls for justice, with tributes, memorials and vigils held there frequently.
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The initial goal of the march was to request electoral reforms such as disallowing corrupt incumbents from standing for election and to bring forward the date for the general election due in 2013. Qadri also called for a pre-election interim government to be appointed with input from the country's judiciary and military. The demand for an interim government was met with skepticism because the military's involvement in civilian affairs would set back the democracy that had often been abrogated in the history of Pakistan; the military denied this charge. Upon reaching Islamabad the goal of the march evolved to call for the dissolution of the Parliament of Pakistan by 15 January and making President Asif Ali Zardari "an ex-president" by staging a sit-in in front of parliament (a deadline that was overlooked).
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In front of Minya's Al-Rahman mosque which is known in the city as an Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya spot, thousands gathered in a march towards the city's Palace Square where hundreds of anti-Morsi protesters had been staging a sit- in against the recently appointed Islamist affiliated governor. According to Al-Ahram, a number of people from the pro-Morsi rally reportedly fired at protesters in front of the governorate building which resulted in a violent confrontation. Thousands of Morsi's supporters took to the streets in Sa'a Square in Qena in a rally organized by the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, along with their allies, Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, the Raya Party and the Homeland Party. Assiut's Omar Makram Mosque vicinity also saw thousands gathering in support of what they called "the present's legitimacy".
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The "Czech TV crisis" occurred at the end of 2000 and lasted until early 2001 as a battle for control of the airwaves, which included jamming and accusations of censorship. During the Czech TV crisis, Czech TV reporters organized an industrial dispute by staging a sit-in and occupying the news studio and rejected attempts by Jana Bobošíková to fire them. They were supported in their protest by politicians such as the then President Václav Havel and by Czech celebrities, but every time they tried to air their news broadcasts, Bobošíková and Jiří Hodač would jam the transmission either with a "technical fault" screen reading: "An unauthorized signal has entered this transmitter. Broadcasting will resume in a few minutes", or with their own news broadcasts featuring Jana Bobošíková and a team she had hired to "replace" the staff members she had sought to terminate.
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City University of Hong Kong students staging a sit-in during 2014 Hong Kong protests over blocking of electoral reforms Students demonstrating against university privatization in Athens, Greece, 2007 Shimer College students protesting threatened changes to the school's democratic governance, 2010 Tufts University students demonstrating for disinvestment from fossil fuels, 2013 Student activism or campus activism is work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change. Although often focused on schools, curriculum, and educational funding, student groups have influenced greater political events.Fletcher, A. (2005) Guide to Social Change Led By and With Young People Olympia, WA: CommonAction. Modern student activist movements vary widely in subject, size, and success, with all kinds of students in all kinds of educational settings participating, including public and private school students; elementary, middle, senior, undergraduate, and graduate students; and all races, socio-economic backgrounds, and political perspectives.
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Others have said the salaries of endowment managers are justifiable, asserting that they are less than what could be earned in the private sector and pay for themselves with the endowment's high rates of return. Yale's endowment has been widely criticized for its investments in fossil fuel companies, Puerto Rican debt, private prisons, companies which provide services to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, subprime mortgage lending companies, and for other controversial holdings. In December 2018, after years of criticism from campus fossil fuel divestment groups, Yale University arrested 48 student activists for staging a sit-in at the Yale Investment Office to protest Yale’s holdings in the fossil fuel industry and Puerto Rican debt. That same quarter Yale sold 99 percent of its direct investment holdings in Antero Resource Corporation, a natural gas and oil company, according to Yale’s 2018 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The "Czech TV crisis" occurred at the end of 2000 and lasted until early 2001 as a battle for control of ČT, which included jamming and accusations of censorship. During the Czech TV crisis, ČT reporters organized an industrial dispute by staging a sit-in and occupying the news studio, and rejected attempts by Jana Bobošíková, the newly appointed head of the news department, to fire them. They were supported in their protest by politicians such as the then President Václav Havel and by Czech celebrities, but every time they tried to air their news broadcasts, Jana Bobošíková and Jiří Hodač would jam the transmission either with a "technical fault" screen reading: "An unauthorized signal has entered this transmitter. Broadcasting will resume in a few minutes," or with their own news broadcasts featuring Bobošíková and a team she had hired to "replace" the staff members she had sought to terminate.
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City University of Hong Kong students staging a sit-in during 2014 Hong Kong protests over blocking of electoral reforms Campus protest or student protest is a form of student activism that takes the form of protest at university campuses. Such protests encompass a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academics issue and mobilization to communicate this dissatisfaction to the authorities (university or civil or both) and society in general and hopefully remedy the problem. Protest forms include but are not limited to: sit-ins, occupations of university offices or buildings, strikes etc. More extreme forms include suicide such as the case of Jan Palach's, and Jan Zajíc's protests against the end of the Prague Spring and Kostas Georgakis' protest against the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.. Quote: During the years of dictatorship in Greece (1967–1974) many Corfiots were enlisted in resistance groups, but the case of Kostas Georgakis is unique in the whole of Greece.
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Protesters mobilising on 1 December Demonstration at the Ministry of Labour, Bangkok On 25 November 2013, anti-government protesters from the People's Democratic Reform Committee led by Suthep began marched to several government offices and forced their way inside the Ministry of Finance, the Budget Bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Public Relations Department, forcing their closure without police intervention, due to government fears that this could result in a repeat 2006 military coup. Yingluck invoked the Internal Security Act (ISA) in all districts of Bangkok and Nonthaburi Province, and the Bang Phli and Lat Lum Kaeo Districts of Samut Prakan and Pathum Thani Provinces respectively. (This was in addition to the central districts of Bangkok, where the ISA had been in effect since the previous month.) However, no direct confrontations between the protesters and security authorities occurred. The protesters continued on 27 November by rallying outside another ten ministry offices, cutting off electricity and forcing the evacuation of the Department of Special Investigation's headquarters, and staging a sit-in at the Chaeng Watthana Government Complex.
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