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  2. List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size

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    The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...

  3. List of boycotts - Wikipedia

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    Great American Boycott: 2008: German labor unions: Nokia: Nokia's closing of a German plant [14] 2008: Stonewall: Heinz: Heinz's pulling of a commercial featuring two men kissing [15] 2009: Various countries: Durban Review Conference: Scope of the conference: Durban Review Conference#Boycotts: 2010: Various: BP: Deepwater Horizon oil spill

  4. Transport and bus boycotts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a boycott of city buses launched on June 19, 1953, by African American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who were seeking integration into the system. In the early 1950s, they made up about 80% of the ridership of the city buses and were estimated to account for slightly more than 10,000 passengers based on ...

  5. Timeline of labour issues and events - Wikipedia

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    The Socialist Labor Party of America does not seem to have used its distinctive arm-and-hammer logo until it appeared on the front page of The Workmen's Advocate in 1885. 1878 (United States) Socialist Labor Party of America founded when the Workingmen's Party of the United States voted to change its name at its December 1877 convention. [18]

  6. Timeline of protests against Donald Trump - Wikipedia

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    March 4 – Counter-protesters at Pro-Trump rallies (Spirit of America) occurred on March 4, with one protest, at Berkeley, becoming a violent clash between pro and anti-Trump groups. [357] Ten people were arrested in connection with the violence and the protest briefly shut down the BART station at Berkeley. [ 358 ]

  7. Consumers are boycotting major retailers. Here's what they ...

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    The boycotts create attention for the cause, including from the media, which "puts a negative spotlight on the companies they're boycotting, and that could in the long run have reputational ...

  8. T. J. Jemison - Wikipedia

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    Theodore Judson Jemison (August 1, 1918 – November 15, 2013), better known as T. J. Jemison, was minister of Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in June 1953 when he led a bus boycott to protest the city's segregated public transit. It was the first boycott of its kind in the modern civil rights movement. He quickly ...

  9. Boycott - Wikipedia

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    Academic boycotts have been organized against countries—for example, the mid- and late 20th-century academic boycotts of South Africa in protest of apartheid practices and the academic boycotts of Israel in the early 2000s. In May 2006, Great American Boycott, also called the Day Without an Immigrant, took place across the United States. [26 ...