Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal link to Jiang or China did not prove necessary for all who protested under the banner of Taiwanese Cultural Society (TCS) and the Students for a Free Tibet. A few Bostonians without affiliation to any identity group were present at the protests. They draped American flags over their shoulders to protest the red carpet the United States had rolled out for Jiang. And Chinese dissident Harry Wu spoke to crowds on such universal issues as the value of human rights...
Kovacevich, whose family owns a grape farm outside of Bakersfield, Calif., said most of the people attracted to his ad hoc Grape Coalition--organized to protest the boycott--had no agricultural background...
Nguyen fought back, arguing that the council'sselection process undermined the fair's claim torepresent campus extracurricular life. Nguyen, whois also a Crimson editor, rallied other studentgroups to her cause, asking them to sign a letterof protest drafted...
...think people who are approaching issues froman identity point of view have much more atstake," Nguyen says. "From [the UAC's] point ofview, it was perfectly logical to exclude ethnicgroups. But we're being passionate because we seeit as discrimination. We wouldn't protest it if itwasn't discrimination...
...group of Radcliffe alumnae--including Ruth B.Helman '43, former president of the RadcliffeCollege Alumnae Association (RCAA), and Amey A.DeFriez '49, former chair of the Radcliffe Boardof Trustees--wrote a letter of protest to Knowles,urging him to "reconsider this divisive strategy...