A14 Strike in Argentina Several major unions staged a 24-hour nationwide strike, crippling businesses and government functions to protest austerity measures intended to avert a default on public debt and economic collapse.
Even if there was no consistent political platform mobilising the protesters, the protests functioned as part of a large-scale educational process: the protesters' misery and discontent were transformed into a great collective act of mobilisation – hundreds of thousands gathered in public squares, proclaiming that they had enough, that things could not go on like that.
Midterm elections often function as a protest vote directed at the country's rulers.
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For the remaining unknown function clusters, the ProtEST section of each unigene allows the user to explore pre-computed protein similarities for the cDNA sequences found in a cluster.
The significance (p value <0.05 [ 47]) of any Procrustes transformation was determined by comparing the measure of fit, M (the sum of square distance between matched sample pairs), between matched sample PCoA plots to a distribution of M values empirically determined from 10,000 label permutations using "protest" function [ 47].
Mr. Chávez was quoted by Reuters as saying the country continued to function despite the protests.
In his later years, he became a prominent critic of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and would decline to attend official Israeli functions as a protest against what he called "growing extremism" in Netanyahu's government.
Mr. Gach, a founder of the Center for Tactical Magic, an Oakland-based arts group that advocates "positive social transformation," said he hoped the shirts functioned both as protest signs and as props to generate conversation between tourists and vendors, "many of whom reside in communities directly impacted by aggressive policing".
"History is full of people, men and women, who happened to be ahead of their time and were accused of treason by some of their contemporaries". In recent years, Oz spoke out against the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shunning official Israeli functions abroad in protest at what he called the "growing extremism" of his country's government.
