Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pumping Dissent Workers protesting the rising cost of fuel held a general strike in Nigeria, paralyzing the capital Abuja. Union officials claimed the government failed to execute a court order to cut gasoline prices...
...Vocal dissent under the Mahan administration has hardly been limited to major council reforms. Issues ranging from awarding student groups money for “recycling and minimizing waste” to council support for gender-neutral bathrooms have generated heated opposition at council meetings this semester...
Whatever Mahan’s true intent, he has not convinced his council of his willingness to hear their opinions. Council Secretary Jason L. Lurie ’05, a frequent Mahan critic, says dissent should be met with reasoned response and not the defensive e-mails Mahan often sends after being disputed with over the list...
Barro says that Mahan’s unwillingness to tolerate dissent has forced council members to resort to petty disputes and repeated motions...
...leadership doesn’t seem to value dissenting opinions in meetings so they don’t structure them to listen appropriately to them. So people in the minority—we had to assert more procedural rules guaranteeing us the right to express our views and have our amendments heard,” Barro says. “You heard less dissent during Rohit’s administration because there was less dissent...