Word: protested
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More than 50 Yale students were arrested this week along with Connecticut Secretary of State Miles Rapoport and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney during a protest supporting two labor unions engaged in a contract dispute with Yale University...
...protest is the most recent in a series of union activities including a strike by Local 35 in March that shut down 22 student dining halls...
...protest was an attempt to raise public awareness of the business as well as educational interests of the university, Chernoff said...
...East Timor was seized by Indonesia in an act of blatant aggression. About 200,000 East Timorese were killed because of the invasion, either in military conflict or as a result of the starvation and disease caused by Indonesia's savage policies. The occupation was greeted not by vociferous protest by the United States, but with tacit assent at the highest levels of the American government. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 assured our ally, Indonesia, that the U.S. would not contest nor attempt to rollback its illegal annexation...
...When WOODY HARRELSON has a cause, he gets arrested. In June, Harrelson was nabbed for planting four hemp seeds in Kentucky to promote hemp's usefulness as a crop. Last week he hung from the Golden Gate Bridge with other environmentalists, snarling traffic and doing interviews by phone to protest the logging of a redwood grove in Northern California. "I just lately learned about climbing," the actor told the San Francisco Examiner. "I didn't get much sleep last night." Back on earth, he was arrested (again) and faces a $10,000 fine...