Word: protested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state welfare department, for criticizing his freeze on hiring social workers. He canceled two scheduled 6% cost-of-living increases for welfare recipients, most of whom are children, and then asked private charities to help make up the difference. When welfare mothers gathered on Beacon Hill to protest, King refused to meet with them. He ordered a limit on the number of indigent elderly persons who can be accepted by state-funded nursing homes, producing howls of protest. Last week King backed down, saying the limit was only temporary...
...suddenly as they had begun, the women's marches ended. Three weeks ago, thousands of women spontaneously rose up to protest the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's apparent opinion that women should return to the veil, or chador (a shapeless garment that covers a woman from head to toe). When they shouted, "In the dawn of freedom, there is no freedom," they were supported by many others who feared that the promises of the revolution were not being kept: workers, ethnic and religious minorities, landless peasants, middle-class...
...women's protest, then, a short-lived eruption, a minor blip in the revolution? No. Many who protested against the chador respect Khomeini, are devout Muslims and believers in an Islamic state, and above all fear being separated from the revolution and divided among themselves (as they have been traditionally). But for them the anti-Shah revolution and the outbreak against the new regime's edicts proved an experience that, in the West, would be called consciousness raising. "We women don't yet know who we are," says Lily Mostafavi, a government worker. But, she adds...
Jones: I've tried to keep this thing from happening. But I now see it's the will of sovereign Being that we lay down our lives in protest against what's been done. If they come after our children, and we give them our children, then our children will suffer forever. [Cultists returning from the airstrip tell Jones that Congressman Ryan has been killed...
...Monday night's meeting, South House residents also elected Francis H. Strauss III '81 to fill the assembly seat of Angel R. Leon '80, who resigned last week in protest of the assembly's initial rejection of the referendum on political parties...