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Another crucial turning point was the nationwide sit-in in 1977 of government buildings operated by HEW ( the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare ), conceived by Frank Bowe and organized by the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, that led to the release of regulations pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Kingston gained prominence in 1998 when she led a sit-in of journalists at the federal election campaign launch of the One Nation Party in the Queensland town of Gatton.

In 1894, Polish Socialist Party organized a mass sit-in at Zawiercie ’ s Cotton Plant, and by 1914, the population of the village grew to 30, 000.

While the Austrian Green movement began in 1978 with the successful campaign to prevent the opening of the nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf ( which had been favoured by Bruno Kreisky's government ), the Green Party was born in 1984 during the successful sit-in protests which prevented the Danube power plant at Hainburg from being built.

Nearly 200 female workers of YH Trade held sit-in demonstrations at the headquarters of New Democratic Party ( NDP ) when 2, 000 policemen stormed the NDP headquarters on August 11, 1979.

In the 1960s the Harrison County Courthouse, center, hosted the first sit-in s in Texas.

Many would perform with the band ; and Brenda Lee's sit-in resulted in a duet record album recorded by her and Pete.

He Invited Payne to the club where he played with Morrison, hoping Morrison would invite him to join them, and after allowing Payne to sit-in on one performance, Morrison did extend an invitation that Payne accepted.

The concurring opinions of Justice Goldberg and Justice Douglas simply stated that they would reverse based upon their opinions in Bell v. Maryland, 378 U. S. 226 ( 1964 ), another case involving a sit-in demonstration by African American students that was announced the same day as the Bouie decision.

The sit-down strike was the inspiration for the sit-in, where an organized group of protesters would occupy an area in which they are not wanted by sitting and refuse to leave until their demands are met.

Students would sit-in at segregated lunch counters, accepting arrest in line with non-violent principles.

In October 1963, the Mel's Drive in chain was picketed and subjected to a sit-in by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination over the fact that while the restaurant would serve food to African Americans and hired them as cooks, they were not allowed to work " up front " where they could be seen by white customers.

In a concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on 2 September 2007, Jim Post recounted Unterberg when he claimed that, when he was in New York City, he wrote the song ( loosely corroborating the aforementioned Verve Records Discography ) and that the song became popular in San Francisco after a selective service sit-in there ( there was a Selective Service Office protest in San Francisco on 16 October 1967 ), then went to the Midwest and the South, finally taking off in New York City corresponding to Martin Luther King's assassination ( in April 1968 ).

Protesters rallied against racial laws, through such events as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Selma to Montgomery marches, the Birmingham campaign, the Greensboro sit-in of 1960, and the March on Washington in 1963.

Edelman identified Zinn as a major influence in her life and, in that same journal article, tells of his accompanying students to a sit-in at the segregated white section of the Georgia state legislature.

The sit-in lasted for 25 hours, with the central issue being a newly implemented " One Florida " plan to end official race / gender preferences in state government.

The Nashville sit-in movement was responsible for the successful desegregation of lunch counters in downtown Nashville.

* July 25 – The Woolworth Company's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the location of a sit-in that had sparked demonstrations by Negroes across the Southern United States, serves a meal to its first black customer.

Inspectors stage a 17-day " sit-in " outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.

Reports of discrimination and surveillance by the Public Security Bureau were escalating, and Falun Gong adherents were routinely organizing sit-in demonstrations responding to media articles they deemed to be unfair.

* February One California Newsreel documentary on 1960 sit-in by the Greensboro Four.

The anchor store, Woolworth's, was the scene of the first sit-in by black demonstrators from Florida Memorial College in March, 1960, and in 1963 four young teenagers, who came to be known as the " St. Augustine Four " were arrested at the same place and spent the next six months in jail and reform school, until national protests forced their release by the governor and cabinet of Florida in January 1964.

Numerous civil rights and anti-war protests took place, including large protests led by Marie Hicks to desegregate Girard College .< ref > Students took over the Community College of Philadelphia in a sit-in, race riots broke out in Holmesburg Prison, and a 1964 riot along West Columbia Avenue killed two people, injured over 300 and caused around US $ 3 million in damages.

* Parliamentarians in Iran end their sit-in of the country's parliament but vow to continue fighting the mass disqualification of reformist candidates by the conservative Council of Guardians.

The more successful sit-in occurred in San Francisco, led by Judith Heumann.

In 1978 disability rights activists in Denver, Colorado, organized by the Atlantis Community, held a sit-in and blockade of the Denver Regional Transit Authority buses in 1978.

Luanne Platter, Hill's niece, decides to protest this by climbing inside Big Tex and staging a sit-in protest.

The letter was read to journalists by Mohsen Armin, one of the organizers of the MPs sit-in criticizing the vettings of the Council of Guardians.

The letter was read to journalists by Mohsen Armin, one of the organizers of the sit-in by MPs criticizing the vetting of candidates by the Council of Guardians.

However, the first student sit-in was held at the London School of Economics in 1967 by their Student's Union over the suspension of two students.

In 1982 a downturn in the steel industry resulted in 189 employees ( 60 % of the workforce ) being retrenched, resulting in a 16 day “ sit-in ” protest by 30, and mining finally ceased on 27 September 1991.

However, there have been instances of actual " political activities " such as kidnapping Jerry Springer ; countering a breast-feeding sit-in organized by Marcy with a Beer Belly dance-off ; causing a riot over a proposed beer tax ; going to Washington to appeal to Congress when Psycho Dad is canceled ; and even forming a short lived misogynistic religion, whose chief theology is blaming all the world's problems on Eve, making it mostly a sect, rather then a proper religion.

He dissented from Brown v. Louisiana, in which the Court held that protesters were entitled to engage in a sit-in at a public library.

One of the sit-in leaders has said: `` Nobody from the top of Heaven to the bottom of Hell can stop the march to freedom.

for torpedo manufacture ( which were test-fired in Loch Long ) and then in the early 1970s was the scene of the Plessey sit-in.

On October 4, 2011, military and police squads used force late at night to disperse hundreds of angry Coptic demonstrators and their supporters who were attempting to stage a sit-in outside the Maspero TV headquarters in downtown Cairo to protest attacks on a Christian church in Upper Egypt.

* 1964 – Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents ' decision to forbid protests on UC property.

It boasted market leading performance, MIDI support and revolutionary peripherals including a light gun with recoil action and the Power Chair, a motorised seat designed to ape in the home what “ sit-in ” arcade games such as After Burner and Out Run delivered in the arcades using hydraulics.

After several major political rallies ( especially in January ), in April 1990, a sit-in protest contesting the results of the recently held parliamentary elections began in University Square, Bucharest.

In 1970, they also staged a sit-in at the Ladies ' Home Journal.

In response, 1, 500 students had a one-hour sit-in the LSA Building, which housed administrative offices.

* December 3 – Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest about 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover of and massive sit-in at the Sproul Hall administration building.

* April 3 – SCLC volunteers kick off the Birmingham campaign ( Birmingham, Alabama ) against racial segregation in the United States with a sit-in.

* March 19 – March 23 – Afrocentrism, Black power, Vietnam War: Students at Howard University in Washington, D. C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U. S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.

* February 1 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.

Whether expressed in a sit-in at lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest in Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, these are outgrowths of Thoreau's insistence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.

The Civil Rights Movement received an infusion of energy with a student sit-in at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The sit-in soon inspired other sit-ins in Richmond, Virginia ; Nashville, Tennessee ; and Atlanta, Georgia.

As students across the south began to " sit-in " at the lunch counters of a few of their local stores, local authority figures sometimes used brute force to physically escort the demonstrators from the lunch facilities.

The " sit-in " technique was not new — as far back as 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia library.