Word: protested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Witt said he was concerned that black students would be offended by the sourcebook and that parents would protest the fact that their children were required to purchase the material...
...this problem, of how to become empowered. The speakers didn't call for sit-ins. They didn't call for the replacement of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68. They didn't call for a complete alumni boycott of the University's capital campaign in protest. They didn't even call for any specific administrative response to the crisis that precipitated the rally: the hiring of Assistant Dean for Public Service Judith H. Kidd. Instead, they took shots at the administration, reminded Harvard students of how special we are, and called repeatedly for the vague sweetness of "empowerment...
...would like to call upon my classmates to put down their protest signs and pick up their school-books. If you want to ruin your own lives and educations, fine. But please stay well away from the lives of those of us who are self-aware and humble enough to recognize the limits of our abilities...
...protest began on Nov. 24 with a one-day general strike by civil servants. The movement snowballed when employees of the debt-ridden national railroad, protesting plans to restructure the company, launched an open-ended work stoppage. They were soon joined by mass-transit workers, mail sorters and state utilities workers. The result was cities snarled with traffic jams and millions of people forced to walk, bicycle or hitchhike to work. The economic cost to the country is hundreds of millions of dollars...
...They are not violated with a toothbrush and a hairbrush, and the neighbors do not hear them moaning and pleading at night. Last week, two months before her seventh birthday, Elisa Izquierdo lay in her casket, wearing a crown of flowers. The casket was open, which was an anguished protest on someone's part; no exertion of the undertaker's art could conceal all Elisa's wounds. Before she smashed her daughter's head against a cement wall, Awilda Lopez told police, she had made her eat her own feces and used her head to mop the floor. All this...