Attending a recent international civil society gathering, I had the mortification of hearing the UK regulatory authorities referred to as "the knitting people".
The largest civil rights gathering in Australian history clogged Sydney and forced the police to close much of the city to traffic for up to eight hours.
"It won't be over until he's tried," said Sarah Rudolph, who lost both an eye and a sister when the bomb demolished the basement of the church, a civil rights gathering place at the time.
The largest civil rights gathering in Australian history clogged Sydney, a sprawling city of eight million people, and forced the police to close much of the city to traffic for up to eight hours.
As an act of civil disobedience, gathering to smoke weed doesn't seem to have been thought through all that well in regard to who exactly the organizers are trying to convince.
Her grandmother forced her to attend civil rights gatherings, and she went reluctantly, she said, both disinterested and fearful of possible violence.
Her grandmother forced her to attend civil rights gatherings and she went reluctantly, she said, both uninterested and fearful of possible violence.
When we talk about the historic civil-rights gathering whose fifty-year anniversary will be celebrated on Wednesday, we usually call it the March on Washington.
It was the fifth such event, and the biggest so far; at 21,000 people it was in fact the largest ever civil-society gathering in the well-policed country.Activists were heartened by the turnout.
The movement had begun drawing national attention, and the march through downtown was widely called the largest civil-rights gathering in the South since the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery; estimates put between fifty thousand and eighty thousand people there.
