Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in 1994 from the remains of The Latin Kings, once New York's largest street gang, the movement has denounced its criminal background to become a political movement working toward the betterment of New York's Latino community, according to the film...
King Tone, the leader of the movement, acknowledged his group's past but emphasized his hopes for its future...
...movement, which the film said has given people like Padilla a positive identity, has been subject to nothing but intimidation and brutality by authorities such as the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...long run, the goals of the progressive movement should be to reassert itself," Wehr said. "On a national level, labor could do a better job of asserting the interests of its members...
With the continuing dependence on graduate students for teaching in colleges and universities, it seems unlikely that graduate students will stop their fight anytime soon. As Mitchell indicated, the movement won't truly be a success until universities across the nation recognize the rights of all its workers...