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  • The D.C. government will get in on the protest action during the Obama inauguration to press its case for fuller rights. Pete Savard (center) and Leonor Bocal (left) with Gelberg Signs put up banners on the John A. Wilson Building's presidential inauguration parade review stand on Wednesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    Protesters to share Obama's big day

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  • "The goal of it is to bring attention to issues that have been ignored or minimized by the Obama administration and the Congress," said organizer Joan Stallard, 71.

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  • "We were carefully supportive four years ago because Obama represented the hope for important change," she said. "The expectation this time around is we've seen what happened and we can see that we need to get much more forceful in demanding the kind of America that we had been promised."

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