Word: protest
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...recent weeks, a variety of groups have come out in protest, from truckers to small business owners. The largest was a crowd of 10,000 demonstrating against the Kiev city council's handling of the financial crisis, which has pushed the mayor to propose novel ways of filling the city's coffers, such as charging entrance fees to cemeteries. And this is only the beginning: A recent KIIS survey revealed that 41% of Ukrainians are ready to hit the streets. "There is a crisis of trust in the authorities," says Volodymyr Fesenko, director of the Penta Center for Applied Political...
Over 150 workers, union activists, students, and faculty members gathered outside the Holyoke center yesterday to protest potential layoffs due to University budget cuts...
...Last year, the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) staged massive protests and besieged Bangkok's international airport for a week. They accused the then-government of being your puppet and vowed to protest until that government fell. In the end, the court ruled that the ruling party had committed electoral fraud, and the government was forced out of office. What is your analysis of what happened? The whole world condemned what happened with the PAD taking over the airport. It was really a quiet coup supported by the military. Many military officials were there, supporting the [PAD members...
...Some recent events have given cause for optimism that Medvedev may be relaxing some of the strictures of the Putin regime: The president withdrew Duma-approved legislation that would have broadened the terms for a treason conviction. Permission was granted for a protest march by an opposition party last month. And Medvedev visited the headquarters of Novaya Gazeta after the murder of journalist Anastasia Baburova - no such gesture was forthcoming from Putin after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya two years ago, a journalist from the same newspaper known for her exposes of human rights abuses in Chechnya...
...This comes down to making sure that we conduct our business in the most highly ethical and responsible manner possible,” Kerins said. Grassley’s letter also requested a response to allegations by Harvard Medical School students that a Pfizer representative photographed them at a protest they staged against conflicts of interest last fall. Pfizer has confirmed that a sales representative was at the protest, and that a photograph was taken of Medical School students. Kerins, the Pfizer spokesperson, told The Crimson that the company “regrets that a photograph of Harvard Medical School...