Word: crowd
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...greatest risk to the protesters wasn't aggressive cops - the D.C. police, just as chilled as the activists, had little interest in confrontation - but frostbite from the hours of marching and standing in the cold. "It's icy out there, so be careful," organizer Joshua Kahn Russell told the crowd before the march began. (There were no reports of injuries, winter-related or other, although after six hours in the elements, this reporter is still waiting to feel his face again.) (Read "Nuclear's Comeback: Still No Energy Panacea...
...groups locked arms in front of the three entrances to the facility, fully expecting to be arrested by the dozens of police monitoring the event. But the arrests never came: the police simply waited and watched as speakers and musicians climbed a mobile soundstage and addressed the increasingly frigid crowd. After nearly three hours, with activists beginning to wonder what it took to get arrested in this town anymore, the protest's leader decided it was time to declare victory and go home. "We won!" Russell told the cheering crowd. "We shut this coal plant down...
...speaker after speaker addressed the plant-protesting crowd - from African-American activists whose cities are blanketed in pollution to protesters from Appalachia, where coal-mining has stripped the land bare - the message wasn't about polar bears or sea levels but the essential injustice of climate change. Unjust because in the U.S. and around the world it is those least responsible for climate change who will suffer the most from warming, and because it is a form of "generational theft," as one activist put it, with the young standing to inherit a ruined Earth. "My generation has blown it," said...
...attributed to a “bad translation.” But dinner was surprisingly tasty, with everything from pork and shrimp to incredible bubble tea, all of which caused attendees to declare the food superior to the Kong, despite eating it sober. The rowdy crowd was entertained throughout the meal by the Breakers, a Harvard break dancing troupe, the Asian American Dance Troupe, the Din & Tonics, and the performance martial arts group Harvard Wushu Club, a crowd favorite. When asked why the performance martial arts act was so popular, Annie Ye ’11, a Wushu performer, replied...
...Harvard men’s hockey team (9-14-6, 9-7-6 ECAC, 3-4-3 Ivy) royally out-skated Princeton (20-7-0, 14-6-0 ECAC, 5-3-0 Ivy) Saturday night, defeating the Tigers, 3-2, in front of a sellout home crowd on Senior Night. It marked the eighth-straight senior-night win for the Crimson. “It means a lot in front of your home fans and [its] your last regular season home game [so] it is important to end on a good note,” Harvard coach Ted Donato...