Obama ended up blocking a key part of the pipeline before the election, in the face of tens of thousands of people conducting sit-ins and facing arrest.
Many banks and schools, along with some factories, were closed or occupied, as employees marched in the streets or conducted sit-ins outside their places of employment.
In the Rockaways in Queens, Occupy Sandy members are teaching storm victims about conducting sit-ins, in anticipation of any government efforts to use eminent domain to remove residents' homes from vulnerable parts of the seashore.
He was there when two hundred students conducted sit-ins and seventy-seven of us got arrested.
In Japan, patients even conducted sit-ins around the Diet and the Ministerial buildings.
He listened and answered questions as we debated strategies for conducting sit-in demonstrations to challenge segregated public dining facilities and used his car to check out, diagram, and help choreograph planned civil rights events.
In addition to the interviews, the first author conducted sit-in observations at the antenatal clinic and attended HIV support group meetings based at the antenatal clinic.
Czech officials said the protesters had lied to them when they promised, at marathon negotiations before the meetings, to conduct peaceful sit-ins.
The government had already watched the students spit in the face of martial law by disrupting the visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and conduct massive sit-ins and demonstrations in and around Tiananmen Square.
