Event class: protest, arrested, police, meeting, rally, government, day, public, part, protests
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Anjem Choudary | Ignoring the ban, they held a rally on 25 August, for which Choudary was summonsed to Bow Street Magistrates Court on 14 January 2003, on charges which included'' exhibiting a notice, advertisement or any other written or pictorial matter'','' using apparatus for the amplification of sound'','' making a public speech or address'', and'' organising an assembly''. |
Arthur Ashe | He was arrested again on September 9, 1992, outside the White House for protesting on the recent crackdown on Haitian refugees. |
John G. Zimmerman | In 1950, he landed a job as a staff photographer at the Time bureau in Washington D. C. His first assignment on November 1, 1950 demonstrated his capacity for capturing split-second action - Zimmerman was driving away from the White House with a group of photographers when two Puerto Rican Nationalists stormed nearby Blair House, attempting to assassinate President Truman. |
Richard Gombrich | pdf) and in 2008 he participated in the'' Rally of the Impossible Professions : Beyond the False Promises of Security'' hosted by the London Society of the New Lacanian School. |
Maung Thaw Ka | When students in jail staged a hunger strike in 1991, Maung Thaw Ka gave his full support, For that, he was badly beaten, tortured and locked in small cell without food when Slorc sent soldiers to crush the `` prison insurrection''. |
Ng Ming-yam | He was a supporter for the protesters of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in Beijing, China, and is best-remembered for leading a supporting crowd with a flag during the protest in Hong Kong in support of the Chinese protest. |
Kathleen Antonelli | The latter could n't meet up with them, so Kathleen and Fran met in Philadelphia one morning in June 1942 for an interview in a building on South Broad Street (likely the Union League Building), where they were informed of positions available through Aberdeen Proving Grounds at the University of Pennsylvania. |
Donald Hodgen | Hodgen was present at this event as well as the August 1983'' Gluesniffers March'', when 200 skinheads descended on Belfast City Hall determined to riot with Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament members who were themselves holding a rally, with the march taking its name from the prevalence of solvent abuse among the skinheads. |
Sid Rawle | After re-printing, as publisher of International Times, an article similar to the leaflet which had led to the imprisonment of Windsor Free Festival organiser Bill' Ubi' Dwyer, Rawle was himself jailed for three months in 1975 to prevent him publicising that year's festival. |
Michael B. Coleman | In the spring of 2010 Mayor Coleman banned city workers from traveling to Arizona in a boycott over an Arizona law allowing police officers to demand documentation of citizenship of anyone suspected of being in the United States illegally. |
Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith | In 2006, Goldsmith gave a speech at the Royal United Services Institute, calling for the closure of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. |
Hoda Saber | On 2 June 2011, Saber and another nationalist-religious figure, Amir Khosrow Dalirsani, stopped eating food and later stopped drinking water to protest'' the conditions that led to the death of Haleh Sahabi'', and the government's crackdown against protesters. |
Samuel Ogbemudia | In November 2007, at an enlarged meeting of the PDP at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia spoke strongly against proposals by Anthony Anenih to change existing zoning arrangement of offices, then walked out of the meeting. |
John Carlos | On October 10, 2011, Carlos spoke and raised his fist at Occupy Wall Street. |
Steve Lonegan | On January 19, 2008, Lonegan was arrested by New Jersey State Police troopers for trespassing at a town hall meeting scheduled by Gov. Jon Corzine at a high school in Middle Township, New Jersey. |
Mario Savio | Savio's part in the protest on the Berkeley campus started when on October 1, 1964, former student Jack Weinberg was manning a table for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). |
Stephen De Staebler | In 1968, De Staebler participated in various `` Happenings'' around campus and conducted classes off site to protect students from police squads that had been stationed on campus during anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. |
Merle Hoffman | In 1989 Hoffman protested Cardinal John O'Connor's support of Operation Rescue, which she deemed `` Violent to women,'' by organizing the first pro-choice civil disobedience action at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. |
Hiram Gill | He took labor's side in several (though not all) strike actions, and even spoke out on behalf of the IWW after the 1916 Everett Massacre, earning him the wrath of the Times (while doing nothing to ingratiate him with his longtime enemies at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer). |
Paul O'Grady | O'Grady also voiced his support for student protesters who had occupied and vandalised the headquarters of the Conservative Party at Millbank Tower on 10 November 2010. |
Rod Quantock | He gave a speech at the 17 January 2010 rally at closure of The Tote Hotel. |
James Orange | In 1962, when Orange was only a year out of high school, he attended one of the weekly Monday night mass meetings at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and was transfixed by a speech on equality by Reverend Ralph Abernathy. |
Leonard Matlovich | Activists including Army Lt. Dan Choi, Army Staff Sergeant Miriam Ben-Shalom and members of GetEQUAL held a vigil at Matlovich's gravesite on November 10, 2010 before proceeding to chain themselves to the White House fence (and be subsequently arrested) to protest do n't ask, do n't tell. |
Deborah Peagler | On August 19, 2009, Peagler's family members and community supporters protested outside the Los Angeles office of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, demanding Peagler's release. |
Russell Means | In 2007, Means and 80 other protesters were arrested in Denver during a parade for Columbus Day which they stated was a'' celebration of genocide''. |
Masoumeh Ebtekar | Ebtekar served as spokesperson for the students in the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, where Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line occupied the US Embassy and held 52 Americans hostage of 444 days. |
Avi Weiss | In April 2002 Weiss organized a pro-Israel rally on the National Mall in Washington, D. C. and a boycott of several large newspapers perceived as having an anti-Israeli bias. |
Anton Abele | In addition, on October 12, 2007, Anton Abele arranged the demonstration'' Stop street violence'' with more than 10,000 young people and adults participating in Stockholm. |
Alejandro Goic | On 25 May 2006, a group of students threw stones at Goic's residence in the city of Rancagua, having done the same to the city's Liceo Oscar Castro. |
Volker Beck | On May 2007 he was arrested and put in a bus in front of the Moscow City Hall by the police. |
Harry Lawson | The biggest test Lawson faced was the 1923 Victorian Police strike, which saw riots and looting in the streets of Melbourne. |
Venedikt Miakotin | In 1905 he tried to mediate between striking workers and the authorities, but was unable to prevent the' Bloody Sunday' massacre, which triggered the Revolution of 1905. |
Moez Masoud | Masoud attended the demonstrations in Tahrir Square in January 2011, and used his public position to mobilize others to attend the demonstrations as well. |
Gary Schipper | His high profile as a proponent of racism in the early 1990s culminated in a June 1993 demonstration outside his house by 175 supporters of Anti-Racist Action in which rocks and paint were thrown at Schipper's residence breaking windows and causing property damage. |
Muntadhar al-Zaidi | On December 20, 2008, protesters in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto threw shoes at posters of George Bush in front of their respective U. S. consulates to support Muntadhar al-Zaidi, to demand his immediate release, and to celebrate his gesture. |
Lionel Phillips | On 11 December 1913, he was on his way from Corner House to the Rand Club for lunch, when he was shot at five times by a certain Misnun, a trade unionist and storekeeper who had targeted Phillips because of his repeated refusal to discuss a trading issue. |
Jaggi Singh | Singh also took part in a protest of Immigration Minister Monte Solberg's speech at the annual meeting of Citizens for Public Justice in 2006, demanding a moratorium on all deportations of refugees. |
James Drever | While the aftermath of the 1973 rent strike, which saw the suspension of the Dundee University Students' Association's constitution by the University Court and threats to sue some of the strikers, caused some students to express a degree of ill-feeling towards Drever, others thought highly of him. |
Pyotr Schmidt | On October 1, 1905, he made a speech during the meeting in Sebastopol, urging the citizens to stand up for their rights and demanding the authorities to free political prisoners. |
Gordon Thomas (politician) | The Detroit Free Press reported in 1965 about one such event, which culminated in a sit-in at city council chambers :'' About 100 sign-toting students from Michigan State University picketed East Lansing City Hall for the second straight day Tuesday, seeking' more affirmative action' against alleged racial discrimination in off-campus housing... police spent an hour carrying the limp-bodied youngsters to a rear parking lot... Midway through Tuesday's demonstration, Mayor Gordon Thomas agreed to meet with student leaders Monday on the MSU campus to discuss the problem.'' |
Scott Lively | In 1991, Lively assaulted Catherine Stauffer, throwing her against a wall and dragging her across the floor of a Portland church, at an Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) event she had been trying to film. |
Bumpy Johnson | In December 1965, Johnson staged a sit-down strike in a police station, refusing to leave, as a protest against their continued surveillance. |
Jean Charest | In 2012, the Charest government faced major challenges when students protested and went on strike by boycotting classes to protest planned tuition increases. |
Gaetano Bedini | He became the target of attacks by non-Catholics, and his visit triggered the Cincinnati Riot of 1853 in which several hundred men marched in protest against his visit. |
Allan Rock | As a student leader in June 1969 he met John Lennon and drove him around Ottawa while he was hosting him for a'' peace conference'' he was holding. |
Mosess Fishman | He also participated in protesting the U. S. Navy's use of Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico as a bombing range until 2003. |
Gloria Steinem | In 1984 Steinem was arrested along with a number of members of Congress and civil rights activists for disorderly conduct outside the South Africa n embassy while protesting against the South African apartheid system. |
Maurice Papon | Papon was in charge of the Paris police during the February 1962 massacre at the Charonne metro station, which took place during a peaceful anti- Organisation armée secrète (OAS) demonstration organized by the Communist Party (PCF). |
Hassan al-Turabi | A Sudanese Karate Black belt master, Hashim Bedreddin Mohammed, attacked al-Turabi by using two knifehand strikes to knock him unconscious into a coma, while al-Turabi was at an Ottawa airport in Canada in 26 May 1992. |
John Haynes Holmes | On May 25, 1919, Holmes was one of the speakers at a rally held in Madison Square Gardens, which demanded that the U. S. government stop support for the enemies of the Bolshevik regime in Russia. |
Raffi Hovannisian | On 15 March 2011, hoping to draw attention to his party's cause, Hovannisian began a public hunger strike in a small protest camp in Yerevan's Freedom Square. |
Andrew Murray (campaigner and journalist) | As chair of Stop the War, he presided at the concluding rally against the Iraq war in 2003, a rally which is claimed as the largest political demonstration in British history. |
Danny Glover | On April 16, 2010, Glover was arrested in Maryland during a protest by SEIU workers for Sodexo's unfair and illegal treatment of workers. |
Ibrahim Coomassie | At a police graduation ceremony in July 1998, Coomassie warned the new officers against corrupt practices, and said he had ordered the removal of all police roadblocks. |
Carolyn Leckie | On 20 January 2005 she was jailed for seven days for non-payment of a fine, arising from a protest outside Faslane nuclear base. |
Leila Deen | right | thumb | Deen after throwing custard at Lord Mandelson On 6 March 2009 Deen approached Lord Mandelson outside a Low Carbon summit on the government's carbon strategy at the Royal Society and threw a cup of green custard in his face, in protest over his support for a third runway at Heathrow airport. |
Ed Fallon | Fallon was arrested with a number of others on October 8, 2011 on the Iowa Capitol grounds when police broke up the Occupy Des Moines encampment, part of the Occupy Movement. |
Javier Solana | There as a student in 1963 he suffered sanctions imposed by the authorities for having organised an opposition forum at the so-called Week of University Renovation. |
Tony Benn | He spoke against the war at the February 2003 protest in London organised by the Stop the War Coalition with police saying it was the biggest ever demonstration in the UK with about 750,000 marchers, and the organisers estimating nearly a million people participating. |
David Dinkins | Dinkins's term was marked by polarizing events such as the Family Red Apple boycott, a boycott of a Korean-owned grocery in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and the 1991 Crown Heights riot. |
Danny Glover | On November 1, 2011, Glover spoke to the crowd at Occupy Oakland on the day before the Oakland General Strike where thousands of protestors shut down the Port of Oakland. |
Ahmed Ouyahia | In particular, prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia reached agreement on a number of Kabylie grievances with Arouch leader Belaid Abrika, who had been physically assaulted during a public protest rally and seriously injured in 2003 by members of government security services. |
Bertrand Russell | In 1924, Bertrand gained press attention when attending a'' banquet'' in the House of Commons with'' well known'' campaigners, including Arnold Lupton, who had been both Members of Parliament and had also endured imprisonment for'' passive resistance to military or naval service''. |
Prem Tinsulanonda | On July 22, 2007, thousands of protesters, mostly Thaksin's supporters, demonstrated in front of Prem's house, calling for him to resign. |
Jack Glass | On 1 June 1982, Glass and Paisley jointly led a protest march through Glasgow which culminated in a demonstration near the landing site of the Papal helicopter in Bellahouston Park. |
Harold George Nelson | On 17 December 1918, in what has since been called the Darwin Rebellion, Nelson led a protest march to Liberty Square, in front of Government House, to demand Gilruth's removal as Administrator. |
Jim McGovern (American politician) | He has been arrested twice during protests outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington D. C. On April 28, 2006, he was one of five members of Congress arrested while protesting atrocities in the Darfur region. |
Ricardo Cruz | At 5:00 am on January 20, 1970, LAPD officers arrested Cruz and twenty others, including Alicia Escalante, chair of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization, in connection with the Christmas Eve demonstration. |
Jan Palach | National Museum Jan Zajíc in front of the National Museum The funeral of Palach turned into a major protest against the occupation, and a month later (on 25 February 1969) another student, Jan Zajíc, burned himself to death in the same place, followed in April of the same year by Evžen Plocek in Jihlava. |
Rocky Jones | In March 1965, Jones joined the Students Union for Peace Action (SUPA) in a demonstration outside of the American Consulate in Toronto, Ontario. |
Howard Moscoe | In 1986, Moscoe took part in a demonstration organized by members of Toronto's Jewish community against the South Africa n government's policy of apartheid. |
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | He attended the following courses : On 30 June 2013 and as a response to the Tamarod movement, mass demonstrations took place in Tahrir Square and Heliopolis Palace in Cairo and other Egyptian cities including Alexandria, Port Said, Suez. |
Anton Abele | At the demonstration against street violence in October 2007, Abele gave a speech to over 10,000 people, who had gathered in Stockholm to show their disgust against violence. |
Ahmed Hassan Said | Said participated in FEP's political rally of 9 October 2011 among the Maspero demonstrations that led to the massacre of many protesters. |
Harold Edward Winch | He performed the same role as a new MLA in 1938, and assisted the police in ending a month-long occupation at the Vancouver Art Gallery on what became known as'' Bloody Sunday.'' |
Tang Baiqiao | He denounced the attacks, and called them reminiscent of a similar event that occurred in 2008 where mobs of up to 600 people physically and verbally assaulted Falun Gong members volunteering at a neighborhood community action center. |
George Tryon | In the summer of 1850, he took the tour, visiting Boston, New York, Washington, where they visited the House of Representatives, were introduced to senior politicians and witnessed a debate over California's requested admission to the Union as a free rather than slave state. |
Owen Spencer-Thomas | The fledgling Union caught the public eye in 1967 when Spencer-Thomas invited the notorious British criminal and escapee, Alfie Hinds, to take part in a College debate to give his controversial views on the flaws in the English legal system and speak about his daring jail breaks from three high security prisons. |
Stuart Murray | Murray later spoke at a Winnipeg rally held in support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. |
John R. Leopold | On March 7, 2012, David Holway, President of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers held a press conference in Annapolis to demand the immediate resignation of Leopold and the Chief of Police, James Teare. |
Reginald Stackhouse | In 1988, he urged a strong Canadian protest against the threatened arrest of Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa (Toronto Star, 6 September 1988). |
Ilia II of Georgia | Ilia II urged the Georgian authorities not to allow a gay rights rally being held in Tbilisi on 17 May 2013 to mark the International Day Against Homophobia to go ahead. |
Matthew Landy Steen | While underground, Steen was investigated for several federal conspiracies including an attempted 1971 triple bombing of the embassies of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in Washington, D. C. ; sabotaging the I-395 beltway during the 1971 May Day demonstrations in D. C. organized by Student Mobilization Committee ; the earlier bombing of the U. S. Capitol building ; the break-in at the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania ; the San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing ; and throwing a tear gas bomb at Vice-President Spiro Agnew's motorcade during his visit to Boston in March 1971, shortly before Agnew's own federal indictment and later resignation. |
Moustapha Niasse | He was briefly detained by police in late January 2007, along with other opposition leaders, after participating in a banned protest regarding the delay of the next parliamentary election until June 2007. |
Peter Taaffe | In 1988, 7,000 attended a Militant rally in the Alexandra Palace, and Peter Taaffe began assessing with the Scottish Militant members the prospects of battle around the government's Community Charge (Poll Tax) legislation. |
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh | Okechukwu has staged several protests - he was the chief organizer of the controversial Strike Out Strike (SOS) protest in 2010 against the Nigerian Federal Government and the Academic Staff Universities Union on the incessant strikes that affected university students in that year. |
Ante Gotovina | On 11 December 2005 (the first Sunday after his arrest), a rally organised by war veterans attracted between 40,000 and 70,000 Croatians in the city of Split to protest the arrest. |
Martin K. Weiche | A subsequent cross burning on his property in 1993 attended by approximately 40 people dressed in Klan regalia led the provincial government of Bob Rae to consider amending the Ontario Human Rights Code to ban the activity. |
Bill Clinton | While at Oxford he also participated in Vietnam War protests and organized an October 1969 Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam event. |
Donald Dewar | Dewar called the Royal High School on Calton Hill in Edinburgh a'' nationalist shibboleth'', mainly because it had been the proposed site of the Scottish Assembly in the 1979 referendum. |
Ron Kovic | On July 12, 1977 Kovic was arrested with 191 students and supporters during the Gym protests at Kent State University. |
Murder of Suzanne Jovin | After dropping off the penultimate draft of her senior essay on the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, at approximately 4:15 pm on Friday December 4, 1998, Suzanne Jovin began preparations for a pizza-making party she had organized at the Trinity Lutheran Church on 292 Orange St. for the local chapter of Best Buddies, an international organization that brings together students and mentally disabled adults. |
Badri Patarkatsishvili | On November 2, 2007, he addressed a large anti-government rally held in downtown Tbilisi and pledged to further support it. |
Todd Gitlin | (Letters to a Young Activist, p. 117) He helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War, held in Washington, D. C., on April 17, 1965, with 25,000 participants, as well as the first civil disobedience directed against American corporate support for the apartheid regime in South Africa - a sit-in at the Manhattan headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank on March 19, 1965. |
Gordon A. Craig | In addition, he often held visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin ; in 1967, Craig was the only professor there to sign a petition asking for an investigation into charges of police brutality towards protesting students. |
Fernando Cheung | After he won the election, he refused to visit Beijing on 30 September 2004 with nine other pro-democratic legislators ; choosing to protest on that day for Hong Kong citizens instead. |
Michael Bloomberg | Bloomberg has been cited for not allowing many emergency officials who responded to the September 11, 2001, attacks to attend the tenth anniversary observation of that day. |
Terry Jones (pastor) | Terry Jones led a rally at City Hall and then planned to speak at the annual Arab Festival on June 18, 2011, but on his way there he was blocked by protesters, six of whom were arrested. |
Hsu Hsin-liang | After the 2004 presidential election, Hsu, in protest of what he saw as an unfair election, arrived at Ketagalan Boulevard (in front of the presidential palace) on the night of March 24 and staged a 3-day hunger strike. |
Sid McMath | It was this Congressional manifesto, McMath laments in Promises Kept, that gave Faubus the impetus and political cover to call out the National Guard in September 1957 to bar the entry of nine black students to Little Rock Central High School.'' |