"All we want to do is walk, demonstrate, protest on an area that already belongs to you, to the city," he said.
It was Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, who came up with the idea of creating a "national teach-in on the environment" and, with a team led by environmental activist Denis Hayes, built the momentum so that on that first Earth Day, 20 million Americans took to the streets to peacefully demonstrate, protest, and call attention to our environmental problems.
"If the UC police chief is demonstrating protest fatigue, then he should apply to be moved for a different assignment," Worthington said, adding, "the Berkeley [City] police seem to have learned how to manage protest and crowd control".
Trouble has already started: On Sunday, security forces surrounded a monastery where hundreds of monks demonstrated, protesting Chinese repression.
More surprisingly, opposition politicians walked out of parliament, complaining of vote-rigging, and threatened to demonstrate in protest.
No matter how many innocents are slaughtered, no matter how many Americans organize, demonstrate and protest, we assume the NRA and its allies will eventually overpower us.
In fact, they prompted thousands of Libyans to demonstrate in protest against the violence, especially the killing of the widely admired American ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens.
The women prayed, yes, but they also moved outside of the churches and the mosques to demonstrate, to protest, to enlist all who would listen in the cause of peace.
We need cast-iron laws to protect these pillars of democracy: the right to demonstrate and protest without being shut down without very good cause; and an obligation on the police to provide support or protection regardless of the cost – as is the case in the United States.
Inside the house, one or two people refused to sing, wanting to demonstrate a protest against the monarchy, but everyone else belted it out like English mustard.
In other words, civil disobedients can either breach the law they oppose or breach a law which, other things being equal, they do not oppose in order to demonstrate their protest against another law or policy.
