Students staged a sit-in at one of M Zingales's classes.
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The nonviolent protesters staged a sit-in near the Uber tent.
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This isn't the first time Congress lawmakers have staged a sit-in.
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House Democrats staged a sit-in over a gun control measure. 98.
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NAACP protesters staged a sit-in on Tuesday at the Mobile, Ala.
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In the nearby town of Wellington, high schoolers staged a sit-in.
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A dozen activists staged a sit-in near the gates of the U.S. embassy.
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Earlier this month, over 22017 Harvard students staged a sit-in at University Hall.
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John Lewis (D-GA), staged a sit-in to force a vote on gun control.
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Students at Sciences Po last month staged a sit-in against selection out of "solidarity".
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House Democrats staged a sit-in to draw attention to the issue after the massacre.
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The Hazara community also staged a sit-in protest over the violence earlier this month.
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At the crossing with Austria, frustrated drivers left their cars and staged a sit-in.
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Dozens of Democratic lawmakers staged a sit-in on the floor of the House in protest.
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Current and former students staged a sit-in at the school Wednesday to protest the shooting.
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Other supporters — including parents of some students at the university — staged a sit-in outside campus.
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John Lewis staged a sit-in on the Capitol steps to discuss the Senate health care bill.
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John Lewis and a dozen other Democratic members of Congress marched into the House and staged a sit-in.
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New York City police arrest protesters who staged a sit-in in front of Trump Tower in New York.
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On Monday, the protests continued as the advocacy group Mums4Refugees staged a sit-in at Parliament House in Canberra.
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Three days later police arrested 11 princes who staged a sit-in at a palace in Riyadh, the capital.
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NOW: A goup of anti-Trump demonstrators have staged a sit-in during a tour in the Capitol rotunda.
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Hundreds of women staged a sit-in against family separation and detention Thursday in the Senate's Hart Office Building.
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Tsang's classmates boycotted school and staged a sit-in vigil at Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College.
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Three protesters staged a sit-in to protest that lack of public access and were arrested as a result.
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In June, John Lewis and several other legislatures staged a Sit-In to protest Republican inaction regarding gun control laws.
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Democrats staged a sit-in protest at the House in June after lawmakers failed to vote on gun control legislation.
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Protesters rallied and staged a sit-in outside the presidential palace and in front of the military headquarters in Khartoum.
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Students of the law school staged a sit-in last month calling for an investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh.
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Kramar and others staged a sit-in at the convention hall and were nearly cited for trespassing, the Sun reported.
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Instead he was inside the hotel, where the Trans Mountain hearings were happening, cheering on protesters who staged a sit-in.
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On Wednesday, hundreds of furloughed workers staged a sit-in at the US Capitol and called for a meeting with McConnell.
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Four years earlier, four African-American college students staged a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Angry residents staged a sit-in outside the office of the regional administrator to protest the violence and lack of security.
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Thousands of protesters staged a sit-in inside the arrivals hall that led to the airport shutting down for several days.
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He and his friends presented his petition to administrators on April 4 and staged a sit-in in the school's main office.
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After a series of addresses at the museum's entrance, the protests staged a sit-in on 53rd street, blocking the street for traffic.
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For one week, nine students staged a sit-in of Duke University's Allen Building, the main administrative building on the university's West Campus.
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And a group of sobbing parents staged a sit-in vigil outside the school, blocked by officers who refused to allow them inside.
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More than two dozen protesters staged a sit-in outside Schumer's office Monday, calling on him to step aside for Sanders or Warren.
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Around 180 of them staged a sit-in to demand compensation; police stormed the factory, and a 21-year-old protester died from beatings.
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Dozens of protesters on Thursday staged a sit-in at the U.S. Senate Hart Building in Washington to protest the Trump administration's immigration policy.
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Some students at another top private school, Poly Prep, also staged a sit-in this year over what they considered a racist school culture.
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They are "firsts": the first time a black woman refused to give up her seat or the first time students staged a sit-in.
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Liberal activists staged a sit-in Monday at Manchin's campaign office in West Virginia in an effort to pressure him to vote against the nominee.
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In addition to their statements, current Yale Law School students staged a sit-in on campus on Monday to demand an investigation into the allegations.
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When she arrived, she learned that, back home, a group of students had staged a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in North Carolina.
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And dozens of women who appeared to be the mothers of trapped protesters staged a sit-in directly in front of the cordon last night.
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The Harvard-Yale football game was delayed Saturday afternoon when student protestors from both universities staged a sit-in in the middle of Yale's field.
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He led thousands of his supporters and staged a sit-in outside the Parliament in 2014, accusing Mr. Sharif of rigging the last general elections.
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Left: Muriel Lawton and her granddaughter, Katherine, were among 500 demonstrators who staged a sit-in at a construction site in Brooklyn on July 22, 1963.
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Last month, workers at a solar power factory in Guizhou Province staged a sit-in, and poorly paid taxi-app drivers protested in Shandong and Guangxi.
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Last week, members of the NAACP staged a sit-in inside the senator's Mobile, Alabama office with the goal of getting Sessions to decline the nomination.
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John Lewis, staged a sit-in on the House floor on June 22, vowing to remain there until Republicans agreed to vote on gun control legislation.
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Cameras covering the House floor were turned off on Wednesday as Democrats staged a sit-in to try to force a vote on gun control legislation.
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Students at Yale Law School staged a sit-in on Monday and called for an investigation into sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Even after those votes failed, House Democrats staged a sit-in, a largely unprecedented tactic in legislative bodies, putting pressure on congressional Republicans in that body.
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Cameras covering the House floor were turned off on Wednesday as Democrats staged a sit-in to try to force a vote on gun control legislation.
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Police officers remove members of ACT UP, who staged a sit-in inside the hallway of the New York State Capitol in Albany on March 28, 1990.
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During the NEB's Trans Mountain hearings in Burnaby, BC last week, activists staged a sit-in at the event to draw attention to its restricted public access.
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At one point, dozens of women who appeared to be the mothers of trapped protesters staged a sit-in directly in front of the police cordon. 26.
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In April of 913, 37 representatives of small businesses staged a sit-in in the LeEco lobby, demanding LeEco pay $10 million that was owed to them.
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And Monday morning, ahead of these events, students at Yale Law school, Kavanaugh's alma mater, staged a sit-in in silent protest of Kavanaugh's confirmation to the court.
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The group staged a sit-in at the Barnes Center last week, and said they wouldn&apost leave until the chancellor agreed to their list of 19 demands.
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Hundreds of students staged a sit-in at the campus&apos main gym last week, refusing to leave until the chancellor agreed to all 19 of their demands.
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Google employees were forced to organize yet again in May, when employees staged a sit-in to protest the alleged retaliation toward employees at the hands of managers.
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The players staged a sit-in protest shortly after Nigeria were beaten 3-0 by double champions Germany who continued their unbeaten run to reach the quarter-finals.
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Last week, students staged a sit-in in the school's hallways to protest Ms. Jahoda's appointment as the school was being visited by Leticia Pineiro, a deputy superintendent.
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Students at Winthrop House staged a sit-in this month to protest Sullivan's defense of Weinstein, according to a report at the time in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.
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Sunday's night protests continued into Monday, when protesters staged a sit-in at Hong Kong's international airport, forcing all flights into and out of the city to be canceled.
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Students and faculty staged a sit-in on the first floor of the Sterling Law Building, where they sat in silence for about 30 minutes before participants gave speeches.
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Hundreds of students at Manhattan's LaGuardia High School staged a sit-in to protest what they say is a focus on academic rigor at the expense of arts programs.
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That same year female writers at Newsweek filed an equal pay lawsuit, while feminist activists staged a sit-in at the Ladies' Home Journal to protest its stereotyping of women.
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Frustrated by inaction over gun control in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando, Democrats in the House of Representatives have staged a sit-in on the House floor.
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After all, the sit-out came almost a year to the day after House Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor to protest Republican inaction on gun control.
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Yet, the administration has refused to meet with student groups who have asked to discuss these issues, and it has threatened to discipline students who staged a sit-in protest.
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The incidents have caused upheaval on the campus, where black students have formed the #NotAgainSU movement, and staged a sit-in of a campus building until their demands are met.
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The Democratic Members who staged a sit-in Wednesday in the well of the House to protest the lack of action on gun control legislation were, no doubt, well-intentioned.
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House Democrats staged a sit-in on the floor of the chamber on Wednesday that lasted 2628 hours and were joined at various points by some members of the Senate.
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In 2014, Mr. Khan led thousands of his supporters to the capital and staged a sit-in outside Parliament for months, accusing Mr. Sharif of rigging the previous general election.
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After the Vermont senator announced Clinton's nomination, his supporters walked out of the roll call vote at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center and staged a sit-in at a nearby media tent.
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The streets of Gao were quiet on Wednesday, but hundreds of protesters staged a sit-in, blocking streets in front of the regional governor's office as they awaited the delegation's arrival.
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Worried about the proposed cuts to Medicaid in the Senate Republicans' version of the health care bill, several activists with disabilities staged a sit-in at the Phoenix office of Sen.
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A woman with the group Extinction Rebellion stood atop the bloodied bull waving the group's green flag; other protesters, also splattered with the red liquid, staged a sit-in around the statue.
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Democratic lawmakers staged a sit-in in the well of the House just before noon on Wednesday in an attempt to force votes on a bill that would strengthen firearms background checks.
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Dozens of Democratic representatives staged a sit-in on the House floor to demand that the Republican majority hold a vote on a gun-control measure before a weeklong recess begins Friday.
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In a sign of their frustration, House Democrats staged a sit-in in Congress, as part of an attempt to get a vote on gun control (which they would almost certainly lose).
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An activist in Jerada said residents had staged a sit-in against a statement by interior ministry on Tuesday that had warned it was ready to act decisively unless the protests stopped.
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The leaders of #NotAgainSU staged a sit-in of the campus health center and refused to leave until the chancellor agreed to their 19 demands, something he did in part on Thursday.
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Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit-in near the border with North Korea, to protest Kim's arrival and facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police.
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Sixty years ago, four young students in Greensboro, North Carolina, staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter — and started a movement, spurring sit-ins throughout the country to protest segregation.
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Of course, Republicans have been here before — they even staged a sit-in of their own in 2008, and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacted much as Ryan did — and have gone further.
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Three dozen priests staged a sit-in against the verdict overturning the ban that kept women aged between 10 and 50 out of the temple, where a celibate deity, Lord Ayyappan, is worshipped.
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Dozens of activists staged a sit-in outside the Rabat court before the first hearing in her trial, chanting: "What a shame freedoms are in danger, what a shame journalism is in danger".
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As the panel discussion came to an end, dozens of young activists from the Fridays for Future movement stormed the stage, where they chanted and staged a sit-in to demand immediate action.
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Dozens of House Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor Wednesday in protest of the GOP leadership's refusal to allow a vote on a gun control measure following the Orlando massacre.
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It's these so-called DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States while children, who Gutierrez was vouching for on Monday, when he staged a sit-in at a Chicago immigration office.
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Where the Green New Deal stands: The activists staged a sit-in outside of Nancy Pelosi's office after the midterm elections and have also lobbied other top Democrats, including Steny Hoyer and Jim McGovern.
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In the United States, young environmental activists of the Sunrise Movement created a major stir when more than 150 staged a sit-in at Representative Nancy Pelosi's office a week after the midterm elections.
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Wednesday night's vote came as Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor, starting around nearly 12 hours earlier, to push for a vote on legislation to prevent terror suspects from buying guns.
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One of the ugliest scenes came in Yuen Long, where protesters staged a sit in to mark two months since an attack at a subway station in the northern town by alleged triad groups.
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Earlier on Saturday, hundreds of activists staged a sit-in at the Venice Film Festival's red carpet to demand a ban on large cruise ships in Venice and call for action on climate change.
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Yesterday afternoon, Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor in an effort to force a vote on gun control, kicking off a protest that, as of this morning, is still going strong.
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By nightfall, about 100 people staged a sit-in directly in front of the police cordon near the university, including women who were said to be mothers of trapped protesters, sobbing and being comforted by others.
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About 100 conservative lawmakers and activists staged a sit-in at Tongil Bridge, anticipating it would be along the route traveled by the motorcade after crossing the heavily militarized border into the South on Sunday morning.
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The Farmer Hoggett actor was one of six environmental protestors found guilty of obstructing traffic when they staged a sit-in on the site of Competitive Power Ventures' prospective natural gas-fired power plant in the town.
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House Republicans were understandably upset on June 22 last year when their Democratic colleagues staged a sit-in on the House floor to protest inaction on gun control legislation in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shootings.
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Last Wednesday, a group of Democrats staged a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives to draw attention to the gun responsibility debate raging across the country in the wake of the Orlando shootings.
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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said early Thursday that he plans to go out and buy a new gun after the Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor to demand action on gun control legislation.
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Several Kuomintang lawmakers staged a sit-in protest in front of the speaker's podium during the parliamentary session, holding signs that read "Objecting to bad law" and "Damaging human rights" while wearing black masks that read "Objection".
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition staged a sit-in on Thursday to protest against proposed changes to parliamentary procedure that it says will restrict lawmakers' ability to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party in the assembly.
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The 2000rd, 22013th, 643th, and 264th shootings of 220 happened this past Wednesday, the day Democratic members of the House staged a sit-in to demand action on gun control — one that was stymied by our government's political gridlock.
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More than two dozen protesters staged a sit-in in Schumer's office on Monday, arguing he should stand aside for Sanders, but Briggs told The Nation last week that his boss would not mount an uphill bid against Schumer.
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Mr. Trump has repeatedly emphasized his support from the National Rifle Association, a contrast as congressional Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor to demand gun control measures in the wake of the shooting in Orlando, Fla.
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Citing the 1869 biography of Tubman by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, highlighted by Yoni Appelbaum at the Atlantic today on Twitter, Lind explains that Tubman staged a sit-in in order to raise the $20 necessary to emancipate her father.
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I was a Brooklyn high school student in February 1960, when four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State College staged a sit-in at a "whites only" Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro and ignited the 1960s.
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Some of the protestors had staged a sit-in in the middle of the street and were arrested after they blocked traffic at a busy intersection on 5th Avenue, according to reporters on the scene who posted on social media.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats staged a "sit-in" on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday demanding the chamber remain in session until the Republican leadership agrees to a vote on gun control legislation following the Orlando mass shooting.
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Across the Delaware River in New Jersey, teenagers at Washington Township High School staged a sit-in Thursday after white and black students clashed over racist text messages between a group of students that went viral after being shared on Snapchat.
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House Democrats staged a sit-in to force a vote on gun control, focusing on two measures: one that would expand background checks and another that would allow the attorney general to stop people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns.
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The request, in the form of a letter to ATF Director Thomas Brandon, comes after Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor this summer to bring attention to what they see as congressional inaction in response to mass shootings.
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By the time I arrived this week, protesters had already staged a sit-in at a Holiday Inn Express in Janesville in an attempt to stop Donald Trump from holding a rally at the hotel conference center the next day.
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Palantir isn't the only target: Protesters staged a sit-in outside a Microsoft store in New York City the day after the Palantir protests, and another group of protesters was arrested during a sit-in at an Amazon store in August.
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On the other side of the gun debate, House Democrats staged a sit-in to protest a lengthy Republican blockade against any sort of reform measure votes, and resorted to Periscope to get the word out when the GOP pulled C-SPAN's plug.
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With the frustration over the failure to tighten the nation's gun control laws boiling over, House Democrats staged a sit-in for more than 25 hours to demand votes on two measures — both of which had failed in the Senate on Monday.
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Burnaby RCMP are recommending charges of criminal mischief against three protesters who staged a sit-in on Saturday that drew attention to restricted public access to hearings for a controversial pipeline in Burnaby, B.C. RCMP spokesperson John Buis confirmed the charges to VICE News Monday.
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Majority Leader Paul Ryan proposed the fines in response to one of the most dramatic moments in the House last year, when Democrats staged a sit-in to push for a vote on gun control measures in the wake of June's Pulse nightclub shooting.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan on Friday blocked off roads into Islamabad, the capital, as an Islamist party that backs strict blasphemy laws staged a sit-in on a key highway, demanding the resignation of a minister it blames for changes to an electoral oath.
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Dozens of flights to and from London City Airport, near the heart of the British capital's financial district, were canceled or diverted after a small number of activists from the group Black Lives Matter staged a sit-in, blocking the airport's only runway for several hours.
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The demonstrators staged a sit-in at the Microsoft store on Fifth Avenue to demand the tech company stop allowing the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use their technology, according to a press release from the "Close the Camps NYC" coalition that organized the protest.
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Diab's graffiti, along with the work of several other local artists, has been screaming from walls and telephone poles all over the Sudanese capital of Khartoum for months now, ever since demonstrators staged a sit-in demanding civilian rule after the military ousted former president Omar al-Bashir.
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In solidarity with Ford, students and faculty at Yale Law School, Kavanaugh's alma mater, staged a sit-in in the gothic Sterling Law Building — many of them wearing all black, as activists and actresses did at the 2017 Golden Globes to raise awareness for the Time's Up organization.
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The Sunrise Movement, a group of young environmental activists that organize throughout the United States, caused a stir last week when more than 218 of its members staged a sit-in at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's office in Washington, D.C., to demand aggressive action against climate change.
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The Sunrise Movement, a group of young environmental activists that organize throughout the United States, caused a stir last week when more than 150 of its members staged a sit-in at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's office in Washington, D.C., to demand aggressive action against climate change.
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Demonstrators had staged a sit-in outside of the military's headquarters: After the peaceful and triumphant removal of thirty-year dictator Bashir, who was accused of genocide, stealing billions of dollars, and torture, the military junta that removed him after popular protests refused to hand over power to civilians.
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On weekends, with a handful of other black students, she marched in front of an F. W. Woolworth & Co. store in Manhattan in solidarity with blacks who had staged a sit-in at an all-white Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they had been refused service.
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"This is not about personality, this is not about rebuke, this is not about confrontation — it's about making sure that we are getting the job done," she declared, moments before she spoke to young activists who staged a sit-in to demand a Green New Deal to address climate change.
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As the 2017 school year came to a close, protesters at Pomona College staged a sit-in, symbolically unregistered themselves from sociology classes and called for rescinding a visiting scholar post that was awarded to Alice Goffman, a white sociologist who chronicled the impact of prison and policing on black youth.
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Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit-in near the border with North Korea, facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police to protest against the arrival of a northern delegation led by an official accused of being behind a deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean warship.
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Mr. Jones, who came from a family of ministers, was a seminary student at Johnson C. Smith University of Charlotte in early February 19603 when he heard on the radio that four black men had staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, 21960 miles to the northeast.
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As a teenager, she staged a sit-in at a segregated restaurant and marched for civil rights with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After obtaining her degree in political science at the University of Illinois and studied law at the University of Chicago, Moseley Braun worked in the US Attorney's office from 1973-1977.
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You know it's a weird day when C-Span is must-see TV—or, more precisely, when a C-Span broadcast of shaky smartphone livestreams is must-see TV. But that's what happened this past week when House Democrats, led by famed civil rights leader John Lewis, staged a sit-in on the House floor to demand a vote on gun control legislation.
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Chris MurphyChristopher (Chris) Scott MurphyOvernight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces White House eyes September action plan for gun proposals Trump phoned Democratic senator to talk gun control MORE (D-Conn.) held a 15-hour filibuster and House Democrats staged a sit-in, both of which drew national attention to the issue of gun control.
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The decision was made at Pride Toronto's annual general meeting Tuesday, months after BLMTO staged a sit-in at last year's Toronto Pride Parade, presenting a list of eight demands including the removal of police floats in parades and marches, increased funding for Blockorama (a party for LGBTQ people of color), space and funding for Queer Black Youth, a commitment to increase representation of black trans women and Indigenous people on staff, and a public town hall to discuss an action plan to meet these demands.
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