Word: protest
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...Cabinet member, Women's Issues and Social Development Minister Carmen Vildoso, quit June 8 to protest the government's response and there is building pressure for the resignation of Cabinet Chief Yehude Simon and Interior Minister Mercedes Cabanillas, whose office oversees the National Police. Even the normally staid daily El Comercio, dean of Peru's press, called for both ministers to quit. (Read about the political troubles of Peru's Alan Garcia...
...jointly commemorated Sichuan earthquake victims). Only in Hong Kong are the killings still openly observed and debated by large numbers - a tribute to its unique status as China's freest society, and a reminder of the widely held view that China can truly move forward only when the 1989 protesters have been rehabilitated. "We have been China's conscience," said journalist Ching Cheong, who quit a pro-mainland Hong Kong paper in 1989 in protest against the crackdown...
...Peng," naming China's then Premier as responsible for the killings. Entire buildings were draped in black flags. Office workers were given lists of random fax numbers in China and asked to transmit newspaper clippings of events, news of Tiananmen having been suppressed in China itself. Slow-driving protest convoys of motor vehicles took to the streets at night. Wild rumors flew around - one held that Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, a student sympathizer, had fled to Guangzhou and was preparing to mobilize southern divisions of the People's Liberation Army in an uprising against the north. At rallies...
...Sarkozy's rightist Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) claimed first place with 27.9% of the Euro vote. The result marks the first time a sitting French President's party has won a European election since 1979. That success in avoiding the traditional midterm European protest vote was all the more significant against Sarkozy's modest 43% approval rating, as well as polls indicating the public continues to frown on how he and his government have responded to the global financial crisis. Despite all that, ruling conservatives came within four points of Sarkozy's commanding 31.1% score during the first...
...Freedom." A video showcased Iran's national icons, starting with heroes of the 1905 constitutional revolution all the way to the founder of the Islamic republic, Khomeini. Missing in the genealogy was Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. "For the first time in four years, we have an opportunity to protest this deceptive government," said Azar Sarikhani, 21, a student of applied mathematics. "We will never give up on the ideals we've had for more than 100 years, ideals of democracy and rule of law. Freedom is a wish that never dies!" (Read "Iran's Presidential Debate: Will Ahmadinejad...