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    Sit in
    • attend a meeting or discussion without taking an active part in it
    • (of a group of people) occupy a place as a form of protest

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  3. Apr 19, 2024 · The Greensboro sit-in was an act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that began on February 1, 1960. Its success led to a wider sit-in movement, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, that spread throughout the South.

  4. 4 days ago · sit-in: 1 n a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move Type of: civil disobedience a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)

  5. Apr 30, 2024 · The sit-in comes after two students were arrested Thursday for their participation in the encampment and charged with trespassing. In his statement, Eisgruber said that the "vast majority of the ...

  6. 5 days ago · Faced with sit-ins, past administrations responded with engagement and discussion. By contrast, the University’s hasty arrests and barring from campus of students engaged in the Clio Hall sit-in marks a shameful break with its own past, and represents a rejection of core principles that have long guided the school’s culture of the vigorous ...

  7. Apr 18, 2024 · Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday night over their involvement in a 10-hour sit-in at offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, to protest the company’s $1.2 billion cloud contract ...

  8. 1 day ago · Police in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad have prevented a pro-Palestinian rally by a radical Islamist party from moving toward the U.S. Embassy, where demonstrators wanted to stage a sit-in ...

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