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Harvard Law School professor Charles Fried may face a rocky ride in his bid for confirmation to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) in the wake of an outpouring of protest following his nomination last week...
Though advertisers haven't banded together yet, some citizen groups are trying it. Dennis Walcott, president of the New York Urban League, organized a protest last week at radio station wqht in New York to persuade the station to stop playing Shimmy Shimmy Ya, a rap song that the protesters say encourages sex without condoms. "I'm not asking for censorship,'' says Walcott. "I'm asking for corporations who make money from these things to think about content and message...
...Johnson on arson charges, accusing him of having set fire last August to Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...
...protest, which was held from 3:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., included several members of the Local 40 Carpenter's Union. "We're happy to support the police," said Jack Wayland, president of the union...
Indeed, PBHA and HAND leaders worked togetherthis year to coordinate a student protest againstthe College report. Leaders of both groups wrotein a memo to Knowles, Jewett and Maull last fallthat their primary concerns were with a reductionin staff or the elimination of the senior staffpositions...