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...campus protest over the presence of Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC) on campus came to a head with a forceful student takeover of University Hall. The protesters’ occupation ended only after over 400 policemen charged the building early one morning and forcibly–and at times violently–removed the several hundred students in the building. Between 250 and 300 people were arrested, and nearly 75 students were injured, according to The Crimson’s reporting from that...
...Career Forum, where banks, consulting firms, and even hospitals recruited Harvard students for internships and jobs. Outside of the event, a group of about 30 individuals—many who were not Harvard students but residents of Cambridge or Boston—smeared themselves with fake blood to protest the presence of military recruiters amid the firms and organizations offering jobs at the Forum. Across the street from them, about a dozen counter-protestors from the Harvard Republican Club accused the progressive protestors of "telling lies about the military...
...Activists are made, not born," says Gould-Wartofsky. "A lot of students haven’t necessarily seen movements before. This stuff was never taught at school….A lot of folks have a hard time understanding why people march in the street or even protest at all." Gould-Wartofsky says he hopes that more people who are taught and exposed to protest movements will mobilize...
Fifteen years later, McCarthy has become the co-author of "The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition." He has also co-taught Literature and Arts A-86: "American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac...
...Patricia Duran, whose home is perched precariously on a hillside in Western Caracas, is one of many residents of poor barrios who often gather outside the government's housing ministry to protest their poor living conditions. "If you saw where we're living right now, there are waterfalls around the houses and the stairs are really bad," Duran said. "We're human beings, but we're [living like] animals out there...