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Mary Beth Tinker was given detention for wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War, leading to the Tinker v. Des Moines case.. Many employers, educational institutions, [5] and professional associations [6] maintain demonstration policies that limit the rights of their members to protest, for instance by restricting them to free speech zones.
The free speech zones organized by the authorities in Boston were boxed in by concrete walls, invisible to the FleetCenter where the convention was held and criticized harshly as a "protest pen" or "Boston's Camp X-Ray". [15] "Some protesters for a short time Monday [July 26, 2004] converted the zone into a mock prison camp by donning hoods and ...
The Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948, one of the two primary labor conventions of the ILO, came into force on 4 July. 27 August 1950 (United States) President Truman ordered the U.S. Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike.
Students form a human chain to hold back the crowd and clear the way for rescue workers who are helping one of the shooting victims on May 4, 1970, at Kent State University.
In the 1980s-1990s and the 2010s-2020s, public debate over campus speech policies and the status of free speech on campus often turned on the question of whether American campuses provided an open or a hostile environment for the discussion of conservative or right-wing views, or for critical debate or "heterodox" approaches to liberal politics ...
Ian Fry, the United Nations’ rapporteur for climate change and human rights, has called Britain's anti-protest law a “direct attack on the right to the freedom of peaceful assembly.”
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
Thirteen people were arrested at the first major protest at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Over a dozen arrested on Dem convention's first day: What to know Skip to main content