Word: protestation
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...train school principals for some of the poorest areas of the country. With collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Education, the program would seek to attract innovators in education to Soweto, the site of a major student protest during the struggle against apartheid...
...protest, Kaiser says he joined the countrywide “queer nation”—a queer rights movement that grew in the early and mid 90s—to counter the violent acts, even taking it upon himself to surreptitiously spray paint “a queer was bashed here” wherever he heard of a homophobic act had taken place...
...create "Africa Town," a district exclusively for black-owned businesses in the heart of downtown. She regularly sparred with the city's former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned in 2008 amid enormous legal problems. Just last month, she drew headlines for abruptly leaving the council's chambers to protest a rushed measure, backed by Christian conservatives, to restrict alcohol sales at Detroit's strip clubs. "It was an act of democracy to walk out and not let the process be hijacked by people with a narrow interest," she said later...
...recent weeks two landowners have immolated themselves to protest confiscation of their property. In November a 47-year-old woman in the southwestern city of Chengdu lit her self on fire to protest an effort to tear down a commercial building that the authorities said was illegally constructed. State television broadcast footage, shot with a bystander's cellphone, showing the woman igniting herself on the structure's rooftop and flames rising up around her. The woman, Tang Fuzhen, died two weeks later from her injuries. And, on Dec. 14 in a suburb of Beijing, a man, attempting to prevent...
It’s time for Harvard students to rise up like our predecessors to protest our modern equivalent—the cuts to hot breakfast. After all, the usurpation of our morning meal has a historical precedent, too. In the late 1970s, the university, facing budget cuts and an oil crisis, stripped students of their dietary rights. But even then, it did so with a few basic provisions to ensur the health, safety, and satisfaction of its students. The administration lowered board costs to reflect the change, and still served hot breakfast during exam period so that students trudging...