"We made a very reasonable request to protest peacefully in an area near the front gates," Burk said.
The battle between Martha Burk and Augusta, Ga., took another turn yesterday when a federal lawsuit was filed against the city after her request to protest at the front gate of Augusta National Golf Club was denied.
Although union leaders rejected their request to protest and demanded they report to work, about 6,000 workers did not show up, according to a spokesman for the main West Coast employers group.
"It's an extremely cynical approach," Bay Buchanan, chief campaign strategist for her brother, said of Mr. Perot's request, asserting that he and his supporters are using the request "to protest Pat Buchanan and the appeal is the way they are going to do it".
Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, two elderly women whose requests to protest yielded one-year "re-education through labor" sentences, seem to have fared better.
[Mother Jones] Brookfield Properties tolerated the occupation of Zuccotti Park to a point, but last year, the company and the city refused a request to use the park for a protest against Park51, a planned Islamic community center.
Recently, tenants of notoriously bad Parkdale landlord MetCap Living Management went on a rent strike to protest ignored requests for repairs and rent increases above the regular annual limit moves that some say are meant to push current tenants out of buildings.
During her time in prison, Manning became a symbol of transgender rights when the LGBTQ community rallied around her after she went on a hunger strike to protest officials who denied her request for gender confirmation treatment.
They had a lot to protest about.
But they have a right to protest.
