"For private employers, there is normally no special First Amendment right to get out of work to engage in a protest," said Rodney A. Smolla, the dean of the University of Richmond School of Law.
As one resident of Rangoon put it, "If you engage in a protest, police quickly appear to stop it.
"Anybody sitting on the sidelines right now or deciding to engage in a protest vote, that's a vote for Trump," he said.
AIDS activists, who say the Bush administration has done too little to fight the deadly disease, engaged in a protest yesterday that underscored their anger and frustration.
"If you can't, they say, 'Go home.' " In a meeting at the plant last week, which a student recorded on a mobile phone, a manager advised them they could be fired and the council might send them back home if they engaged in a protest.
Radical, anti-racist activists engaged in a protest march, including half a dozen Duke graduates and one former instructor, were shot down by self-proclaimed Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen.
With the support of many teachers and parents, the Colorado students have engaged in a protest of their own to teach the school board a lesson.
This is why I even understand when people insinuate that me engaging in a protest is childish or idiotic, because I know that I'm being pulled back in line.
The political head-butting led the opposition New Democratic Party, which had been employing parliamentary tricks to try and defeat and frustrate legislation that would make it easier to outsource manufacturing jobs, to engage in a silent protest.
"The founders made a point at Boston Harbor, but they made history in Philadelphia's Independence Hall". Lee said that the GOP has had "no choice but to engage in a number of protests" against Obama's agenda, which he said has been "Washington-centered" and has worsened, not improved, economic inequality.
"If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and - importantly - accept the consequences of his actions.
