Word: protest
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...sketches is the reason artists persist with the techniques. The new print exhibition of Indonesian pop artist Agus Suwage, running at the STPI from Sept. 26 to Oct. 24, is a case in point. Agus began his residency at the Tyler Institute in January with a desire to protest a 2008 Indonesian antipornography law that he felt curbed the freedom of women and artists like himself. "It affects pluralism and Indonesia needs to be pluralistic," he says...
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...Tensions had been building in the weeks leading up to Monday's protest after Camara hinted that he may run in the presidential election set for January 2010, going back on an earlier pledge not to take part in the election. The move infuriated the opposition, which wants to see free, democratic elections held in the country. Many opposition members were arrested in Monday's crackdown, according to Mohammed Jalloh, a Guinea expert at the think tank Crisis Group in Dakar, Senegal...
...What They're Dumping in Belgium: There was no honey, but Belgium was a land flowing with milk on Sept. 16 when farmers dumped 790,000 gal. (3 million L) of dairy product onto their fields to protest low prices. In an effort to draw attention to the cause, thousands of European Union milk farmers have also launched a milk strike, halting deliveries to industrial dairies and demanding strict production quotas...
...original version of the Sept. 27 news article "Locals, Students Protest Uribe's Speech" incorrectly stated that the Harvard Colombian Society collectively decided to draft a letter opposing any attempt by President Alvaro Uribe to seek a third term. In fact, it was a group of students from the organization who drafted the letter—not the entire organization...