La. protests hark back to '50s, '60s
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Drawn by a case tinged with one of the most hated symbols of Old South racism &#151; a hangman's noose tied in an oak tree &#151; tens of thousands of protesters rallied Thursday against what they see as a double standard of prosecution for blacks and whites.
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Thousands protested a proposal for their provinceâs future, which they say falls short of their desire for independence.
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Vietnamese Catholics have ended more than a month of protests in Hanoi aimed at pressing the Communist government for the return of church land seized 50 years ago.
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PARIS : Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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Musicians marched a silent "second line" through the French Quarter on Sunday to protest the state of New Orleans' famed music scene nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.
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Thousands of people lined the streets of Paris Wednesday to watch a reenactment of the French and US liberation of the city from Nazi occupation 60 years ago.
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New Orleans, the "Big Easy" city famous for its good times and relaxed attitude, has become the Big Uneasy in recent weeks as its murder count has soared and anger grown at local leaders unable to stop the violence.
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Anti-Bush demonstrators filled the streets of New York City on Sunday. The march, organized by United for Peace and Justice, was largely peaceful, but by late afternoon some demonstrators had set fire to a
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Protests -- and arrests -- began in  New York on Thursday, days before the start of the Republican  convention, where President Bush will be nominated for  re-election in a city that voted overwhelmingly for his  opponent four years ago.
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LOS ANGELES Hundreds gathered today in Los Angeles to protest the proposed closure of the trauma unit at Martin Luther King Junior/Drew Medical Center.
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At least 60 people were injured in clashes between police and opposition activists during a nationwide strike on Saturday, the fifth in two weeks.
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"The whole world is watching!"  That was the chant of anti-Vietnam War demonstrators in 1968 as they clashed with police at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Paris turned back the clock Wednesday for a grand fete to remember the tears and the euphoria that heralded the liberation of the French capital 60 years ago as it threw off the shackles of Nazi occupation.
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Rally recalls early protests of campaigners still battling to ban the bomb
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Protests against a City Council plan to tear down low-income New Orleans housing turned ugly Thursday, with police using pepper spray and stun guns to clear a crowd angry they weren't allowed into City Hall for the vote.
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The state of Louisiana is on the skirmish lines of a growing fight waged by animal-rights groups, lawmakers and courts over the treatment of animals in relation to sports.
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JENA, La., Sept. 20 -- Thousands of demonstrators jammed the streets of this rural Louisiana town Thursday to protest what they view as excessive criminal charges against six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl.