Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Racial trouble has been brewing at Hehai since last November, when the authorities erected a wall around the African students' dormitory, ostensibly to "protect" the foreigners and their possessions from theft by jealous Chinese students. The Africans objected in a letter to university officials, denying any need for protection. Then they tore down the wall. The Chinese deducted the cost of the damages from the $75 state stipends that the black students collect each month. In reply, 54 African students occupied the campus bank that handled the penalty transaction, dispersing only after the university president promised full reimbursement...
From its opening sequence, Burning convincingly recaptures the racial dread of 1964 Mississippi. But the verisimilitude is soon sacrificed for a bogus conclusion: that to protect the rights of blacks, the Federal Government sank to the same level of lawless terror occupied by the Ku Klux Klan. To the extent they appear at all, blacks are portrayed as ineffectual victims, helplessly waiting for the "Kennedy boys" to set them free. In due course, that is just what happens, as the FBI cracks the case by brutally intimidating a white witness...
...film's depiction of an FBI so zealous in its defense of black rights that it would resort to vigilantism to promote them. That contention is laughable to civil rights veterans of the early 1960s, who pleaded with the bureau to take a more active role in protecting blacks. Only two weeks before the murders, a delegation of Mississippi activists journeyed to Washington to implore federal officials to protect the civil rights workers who were flocking into the state for the Freedom Summer. Yet despite repeated appeals to the FBI and Justice Department on the night the three civil rights...
...their professional peers and by one another. They all feel terribly fortunate and sometimes worry about the envy or ill will of the world at large. Glynnis thinks, "Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves...
Andy Lipkis, 34, a bearded, boyish, homespun half saint, knows something about delivering dreams. His life is a demonstration in respectable alchemy, creating gold from nothing. Inspired by the belief that planting trees can reduce smog, protect the ozone layer, feed hungry people and, when all is said and done and planted, save the planet, Lipkis has become a global Johnny Appleseed. The organization he founded 15 years ago, TreePeople, is directly or indirectly responsible for planting more than 170 million trees around the world. At the center of TreePeople's mission is the belief that people can save themselves...