Word: protested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alternative to the traditional placard-and-march Harvard protest format, the club members dressed themselves as member of endangered species and lay motionless on the sidewalk for about 20 minutes beginning...
...Another protester wore an eagle's head, complete with bright yellow beak, to symbolize the endangered bald eagle. Committee members dressed entirely in black carried signs explaining the costumes and the intent of the protest...
...share of the comeback? Their discontent seemed ready to boil over last week, even as striking flight attendants returned in triumph to their jobs at American Airlines. No sooner had American resumed its normal flight schedule than pilots and mechanics at United Airlines began a slowdown to protest the prospect of thousands of new layoffs. In Los Angeles more than 150 police officers scheduled for the morning shift called in sick to pressure the city into negotiating a new contract to replace one that expired 17 months ago. And in Illinois Caterpillar workers staged slowdowns at plants in six locations...
...held power since the end of World War II fell to ignominious defeat: its candidates won only 14% of the vote countrywide. In search of a party with a stronger message, or perhaps just in revenge for the havoc politicians have wrought on the country, Italians registered their protest by turning to both the far left and the far right. The Northern League, an upstart populist movement centered in Milan, continued to gain power. It has threatened nothing less than the partition of the country into autonomous federations, dividing < the wealthy north from the poor south. The Democratic Party...
...other ethnic group had its own department, a university task force on the subject noted, and there was not enough academic substance to justify adding that one. Within days, however, 300 students -- equivalent to a tenth of the school's Chicanos and about 1% of total enrollment -- staged a protest that escalated into a window- breaking skirmish with police. Next came a hunger strike by five students and one faculty member. In June UCLA backed down, creating the Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana (in deference to women) and Chicano Studies...