The 14 PayPal defendants, some of whom were teenagers when the protest occurred, find themselves looking at 15 years in federal prison – for exercising their free speech rights; for redressing their grievances to PayPal, a major corporation; for standing up for what they believed was right.
In Buch, a down-at-heel suburb of Berlin, one Eritrean asylum-seeker said the only time he had witnessed any hostility was when a far-right protest occurred outside his refugee shelter.
Here was the arrogant Leo, the mandolescent who asked supermodels, "Do you know who I am?" Or the petulant Leo, hurling manure at Italian paparazzi when no more sophisticated form of protest occurred to him.
The most famous modern case of a monk using self-immolation as a form of political protest occurred in 1963, when a Buddhist monk in Saigon, South Vietnam, Thich Quang Duc, burned himself to death to protest persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic-dominated South Vietnamese government.
The administration's initial statements suggested it was triggered by a protest against the anti-Islam film "The Innocence of Muslims" at the consulate's gates -- when later reports said no such protest occurred.
But its most brazen protest occurred this month, when three undocumented immigrants -- Lulu Martinez, Lizbeth Mateo, and Marcos Saavedra -- returned voluntarily to Mexico then tried to reenter, along with six other undocumented immigrants who sympathized with the protest.
This latest protest occurred on Saturday afternoon, when about 100 demonstrators amassed near Justin Herman Plaza before heading down Market Street.
A similar protest occurred on October 30, 2011, when a splinter group from the Occupy Vancouver movement marched to the cathedral from the Vancouver Art Gallery.
With both research and protest occurring simultaneously, Africa appears as divided as the rest of the world when it comes to genetically modified foods.
Another smaller protest occurred outside the embassy on Sunday.
