Word: protestation
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...countries. Rice prices have nearly tripled since January, reaching $1,000 per metric ton last month in India. Wheat has doubled in price in a year and jumped 25% in just one day in February. Reeling from sticker shock, tens of thousands of people have stormed the streets in protest across the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia, demanding that their governments offer relief. They have found bloodshed instead. More than 24 people were killed in Cameroon during food riots in February; five more died in Haiti in March, and two more were killed in protests in Somalia last month...
...This wasn't a riot! These people were just disrupting society ... The government will solve their problems.' ZAO MING, an official from Dujiangyan, China's foreign-affairs office, after hundreds of grieving parents were dragged away by local police during their protest over the poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last month's earthquake, killing thousands of children...
...Young people took this message to heart all across the country. Angry protesters filled the streets at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months later, provoking helmeted police into a brutal assault. At Harvard the following spring, in 1969, students took over University Hall to protest the institution’s alleged complicity in the Vietnam War, once again provoking a police incursion, followed by a student “strike” that shut down the university...
...Members of the Class of 1808 participate in a 1807 student protest against the quality of College food. Seventeen students are eventually expelled for their participation in the revolt, which would become known as the “Rotten Cabbage Rebellion...
...Ibar marks the dividing line between Mitrovica's Serb north side, and its ethnic-Albanian south side - enclaves that have, for the past decade, been so separate that they might as well have been different countries. In fact, the reason the "Descendants" are burning Old Glory is ostensibly to protest Washington's support for the "fake state" of Kosovo...