A favorite folk protest song of the '60s lamented, "Where have all the soldiers gone?" Today, with 70percentt of African-American women unmarried, we might protest too, asking, "Where have all the African-American men gone?" (No, I am not suggesting intraracial marriage only).
They began to gather before 5 p.m., leading chants including, "We are the immigrants, mighty might immigrants" and a protest favorite, "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido" (The people united will never be defeated).
The government has arrested three people for unlawful assembly, closed an area near government offices that was a favorite spot for protests by Falun Gong adherents and rounded up Chinese immigrants who have lost court cases to remain in Hong Kong.
Over the years, Carl's Jr. restaurants became a favorite target of protesting feminist and gay rights groups.
The obsession with violence and chemically induced dementia in Thompson's writing gave it a kind of post-Altamont, Manson-family, death-of-the-sixties aura, and made him a favorite not of the protest marchers and flower children of the sixties but of the youth of the burned-out decade that followed.
EK Updated at 5.02am GMT 4.50am GMT Speaking of Kanye West and hurricane relief, our favorite hip hop hurricane protest track of semi-recent vintage was inspired by West's "George Bush doesn't care about black people" remark live on air after Hurricane Katrina.
A point of contention is likely to be the decision of the authorities to prohibit demonstrators from using stilts or giant puppets, favorite props in recent protests.
My favorite picture from the protests shows a young man pumping his fist at a line of riot police officers while his mother stands beside him, holding his jacket, to make sure he doesn't catch a cold.
Across the internet today, you'll see some of your favorite websites "blacked out" in protest of something called SOPA -- the Stop Online Piracy Act.
My mother and I got thrown out of a mall because we were holding a peaceful protest in our favorite place to shop!
