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  • And rather than concern myself with the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, I'm sending some money to Somalia, because despite the fact that the Somalians are dirt poor, they have their priorities right.

    Here Are Some Thoughts I Had For America! This Week In Pundit Pontifications The Huffington Post News Team 2011

  • But many public-safety unions quickly changed course to rally against Mr. Walker's bill as an attack on the middle class, joining teachers and other state employees in protest marches and overnight "sleep-ins" in the capitol building.

    Sparing Police, Firefighters Makes Cost-Cutting Tough Jeannette Neumann 2011

  • Indeed, Occupy Wall Street and its sister protests are merely the latest in a long and historic line of populist protests to use sleep-ins, sit-ins and marches to oppose government policies, counter injustice and bring about change outside the confines of the ballot box.

    John W. Whitehead: It's Time for All Americans to Occupy Washington, D.C. John W. Whitehead 2011

  • Indeed, Occupy Wall Street and its sister protests are merely the latest in a long and historic line of populist protests to use sleep-ins, sit-ins and marches to oppose government policies, counter injustice and bring about change outside the confines of the ballot box.

    John W. Whitehead: It's Time for All Americans to Occupy Washington, D.C. John W. Whitehead 2011

  • �In recent months, other state assemblies have seen protests, sit-ins, sleep-ins and various types of disorder.

    Brawls, Sit-Ins: Politics As Usual In India 2010

  • Yet she is merely one of a long and historic line of Americans to stage populist protests in the form of sleep-ins, sit-ins and marches to oppose government policies, counter injustice and bring about change.

    John W. Whitehead: It's Time to Join the Resistance 2009

  • It's been a chore waking up early enough to get Max off to kindy and Lola off to the chinderhuus after blissful holiday sleep-ins.

    Snow mouse 2006

  • It's been a chore waking up early enough to get Max off to kindy and Lola off to the chinderhuus after blissful holiday sleep-ins.

    January 2006 2006

  • Hand over multiple household chores and demand sleep-ins for a week!

    Reasons I tell Myself I love him @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy 2006

  • N's Dad was slated to have him this weekend, and had to cancel at the last minute so my grandiose plans for sleep-ins and cupboard cleaning were abandoned.

    blog: Sundayitis 2007

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