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...save when its exploitation proved profitable. Mexico has seen an odd combination of civilian rule and illiberal policy, of great growth and modernization and extreme poverty and remnants of an old system, which created a constant tension between the successfully co-opting government and those few who sought to protest the lingering injustices. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) long held virtually complete power and brought many changes to larger Mexico, but few to Chiapas...
...crushed as other movements had been in Mexico due to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) agreements that were in U.S. Congress for debate during the attacks. The international media was scrutinizing Mexico to find any issues that might compromise the free trade agreements when the EZLN appeared, protest flier in hand. In order to achieve the passage of the NAFTA agreements, the government had to take this group very seriously, and it did. One of the many concessions given to the group was an assortment of autonomous regions placed under EZLN control. Usually consisting of pueblos like Oventic...
...group calling itself the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) swept into the tumbledown airport in the town of al-Fashir, killed 75 Sudanese government soldiers, shot up four military aircraft and kidnapped the air force chief, Major General Ibrahim Bushra. The rebel group claimed that the raid was a protest against both the government's neglect of Darfur and an increasing Arab militancy...
This is no rival to Phillips Brooks House. Rather, it is a meeting place for the Harvard left, and its growing momentum suggests that Crimson activism is hardly a dream of the “Red Square” past. Forum organizers imagine that when one group stages a protest, other members will help out, adding manpower and faces to the movement. That could mean the average living-wage protest along Mass Ave might have dozens rather than a handful of marchers—and it might even make more noise than a Lyndon LaRouche demonstration...
Students placed pink toy soldiers in classrooms Tuesday to protest Pentagon recruitment. And Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant ’00, president of the student gay rights group Lambda, said larger protests were slated to coincide with the military’s planned follow-up visits to the school next month...