Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Soviet refusniks now students at Harvard were among those participating in the Washington, D.C. march on "Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews"--a nation-wide protest mounted by American Jews and other human rights activists on behalf of refuseniks who can't win government permission to emigrate...
Soviet brutality and blatant disregard for human rights was sharply brought into focus yesterday when Moscow security police beat and arrested CNN's Moscow bureau chief for "assaulting a Soviet citizen." The Kremlin must be complimented on its novel way of describing a journalist watching a refusnik protest. For most Russians, such incidents are a part of everyday life...
...since the 1970s had Italy been so gripped by labor strife and protest. From the Alps to the Mezzogiorno, Milan to Palermo, buses and trains came to a halt, airports shut down, and courts, banks and government offices closed as some 12 million workers last week staged a four-hour walkout. In the country's first general strike in three years, factory workers and police officers, teachers and students, white-collar workers and pensioners marched through city streets under banners demanding more money for health and education and less for defense...
...strike had been called by Italy's three big labor federations to protest tighter economic measures being proposed by Prime Minister Giovanni Goria's fragile five-party coalition government. But the walkout was also an attempt by the federations to reassert their muscle in the face of a series of wildcat strikes staged this fall by independent labor organizations. The COBAS (for Comitati di Base, or rank-and-file committees) have sprung up to counter the ineffectiveness of organized labor...
...after sharp protest from Lashman, who is Harvard's senior planning counselor, Chairman of the UMass Board of Trustees Andrew Knowles announced a new agreement that will give the two educators raises of $12,000 and $9000 respectively...