From a morning blockade of a federal building in Chicago to a lunchtime march to the White House to an evening discussion at a Y.W.C.A. in Detroit, a cross-section of activists, celebrities and everyday Americans held more than 150 events across the country today to oppose a war with Iraq.
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From the moment the piece, "Exhibit B", had been announced, a section of the black activist community had denounced it as a racist work of colonial exploitation.
This section of India's poor, activists say, lives in inhumane conditions, and is often under the threat of displacement, harassment and arrest.
Founded by a small group of activists fighting for the repeal of section 28 of the 1998 Local Government Act, which, like Russia's 2013 law, aimed to prevent the "promotion" of homosexuality in schools, they hope they have something to give.
As a wide cross-section of Muslim community activists, academics, lawyers and politicians warned, the duty has in practice charged teachers, doctors and other professionals with monitoring people's religious and political views.
This day has long symbolized the struggle for workers' rights through the participation of unions and traditional left organizations, but Occupy brought a diverse cross-section of non-traditional activists who embraced a broad spectrum of issues, not merely those bearing directly on the economic plight of workers.
On Wednesday, an activist in another section of Deir al-Zour said rebels had seized two checkpoints near the Iraqi border, taking over government buildings as officials fled.
Plenty of activists had done the same.
Hundreds of activists have been rounded up.
