"It is surprising to me that a district attorney would find it a priority to prosecute a nonviolent protest conducted in the privacy of one's solitary confinement cell," said Carol Strickman, a staff attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.
MoveOn.org, another of the many groups taking part in the protests, also conducted an Internet-based organizing campaign, in response to the Congressional resolution on Iraq.
The relay — making its 16th international stop — has been disrupted by protests or conducted under extremely heavy security since it left Greece.
The police in Myanmar arrested thousands of people in the weeks after the crackdown on protests and conducted nightly raids to round up the leaders, some of whom fled to Thailand.
Many of these demonstrative protests were conducted through or in coordination with the organizing efforts of America's faith communities.
His girlfriend was thrilled, his principal quite the opposite -- in fact, she banned him and his co-conspirators from attending the prom altogether, despite a worldwide protest campaign conducted via Facebook.
Many of these pilots may not be paid journalists, but as Jason Koebler argued in Motherboard: "By any definition of the word, the drone pilots documenting the Dakota Access Pipeline protests are conducting journalism.
A majority of New York City voters disapproved of Bloomberg's handling of the Occupy Wall Street protests, while a majority approved not only of the views of the protesters, but also of the way the protests were being conducted.
Indian rights leaders, furious over the changes, conducted protests to defeat it.
