sit-in protest

A student sit-in protest led to the creation of the station.

He once was suspended for leading a sit-in protest.

A sit-in protest by around 25 workers lasted for 18 days and made headlines around the world.

In his second year he got involved in a sit-in protest against segregation at a local movie theatre.

About 70 members of the 290-seat Parliament, who held a sit-in protest for nearly three weeks, are expected to resign on Sunday.

These 20 were allowed inside the royal grounds to begin bast, in this case a form of sit-in protest.

While still in high school, he and a group of students participated in a sit-in protest at a segregated restaurant.

"Shame on Birmingham University, which has just criminalised the sit-in protest."

Opposition lawmakers in turn staged a sit-in protest and vowed to refrain from parliamentary affairs.

After three days of sit-in protest they extracted a promise from Hazhir that he would conduct elections fairly.

On 30 December, thousands of students successfully launched a sit-in protest, the Associated Press reported.

In the 1960s, civil rights leaders lead boycotts, sit-in protests, marches, and other non-violent demonstrations.

Benson said slowly, "Downtimers, all of 'em, organized in a sit-in protest.

While he moved cautiously, southern black college students took the initiative, launching a wave of sit-in protests during the winter and spring of 1960.

Following the lead of the students in Taipei, six other sit-in protests sprang up around Taiwan:

Organizers agreed to spread the sit-in protests to include the lunch counter at Greensboro's Kress store.

Notable events at the courthouse include two lynchings and the city's first Civil Rights Era sit-in protest.

He said that students and teachers had suspended classes until all are released, and that students were holding a sit-in protest at the campus.

The only overt opposition faced by the Mayfield Ten was when the white students would refuse to attend classes and conduct a sit-in protest.

More than 2,000 Homsis turned out for a sit-in protest awaiting the Arab League team's arrival, an activist said.

Sit-in protests spread to over one hundred cities across the United States during the next year, and are considered the onset of the 1960s civil rights movement.

The New Frontier Party, which had staged a sit-in protest in Parliament, opposed the use of taxpayers' funds.

On 19 October 2012, activists and radio hosts began a three-day sit-in protest in front of the government headquarters in Admiralty.

According to Ming Pao, family members of the victims were dissatisfied with the official investigation and held a sit-in protest, calling for a fair judgement.

On the morning of 21 September 2011, hundreds of villagers participated in a sit-in protest against local officials outside government offices in Lufeng.