Word: protest
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...nitric oxide and sulfur, and some people worry that drilling holes deep into the earth destabilizes the land around it. This summer, police arrested a group of environmental activists who had chained themselves to machinery at a drill site near the nation's largest power station outside Reykjavik to protest the plans for a new aluminum factory. Iceland's government has responded to such criticisms by trying to diversify and attract companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Yahoo!, all of which have discussed building massive server farms on the island...
...Franklin-inspired” protest...
...bachelor's degree from Stanford University went on to earn a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford, where got her master's degree and wrote a doctoral dissertation on the transformation of white-ruled Rhodesia into black-ruled Zimbabwe. While a college student, she launched a divestment effort to protest South African apartheid. After earning her Ph.D. at age 25, she briefly worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company...
Brought together largely by e-mail and city-wide text messages, Indians from across the country's religious and ethnic spectrum marched together in Mumbai. The rally's most conspicuous demographic, though, was of another sort altogether and one rarely seen massed in protest: the affluent middle class. "This is surreal," says Dhruv Wadia, a young advertising professional, pointing to a gaggle of middle-aged women, a few sporting Louis Vuitton handbags. "All the aunties have showed up." (See a video of Mumbaikars taking to the street...
...clear if the verdicts will tamp down tensions or inflame opposing sides of the protests that have engulfed the Thai capital. Fears of clashes between the PAD and the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) have been mounting in recent days, and several PAD members have been killed or wounded in grenade attacks on their protest sites during the past week. One PAD member was killed and 22 wounded early Tuesday when an unknown assailant fired a rocket-propelled grenade into the passenger terminal at Don Muang airport. "We need a system in this country where elections...