Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bricks & Stink Bombs. Nasser had heard the theme of change all too clearly only the week before, when Egypt was rocked by anti-government demonstrations. The trouble had started right in Helwan, where 3,000 workers took to the street to protest the leniency shown by a military court to four top officers accused of criminal responsibility for the defeat by Israel in June. Egged on by leftist agents of Nasser's own Arab Socialist Union Party, the workers attacked a local police post, were driven off only with riot guns. Their cause was quickly picked up by students...
...thousand Mattapan residents attended a public meeting Tuesday to protest MBTA extension plans which would place a rail yard in their community...
...students asked that the money be used instead to rehabilitate the buildings in ghetto areas. According to Joseph Pilati, editor of the News, the protest also intended to demonstrate to the administration that it should assess the sources...
...withdrawal of funds culminated a two month protest against Gordon by the B.U. News, Students for a Democratic Society, and other groups. They claim that Gordon maintains substandard housing in South Boston and Roxbury and has been recalcitrant in correcting housing complaints to the Massachusetts Commission on Discrimination...
...choose between the uncertain rewards of a controversial political move and the proven inspiration of substantial Olympic success. But the boycott against South Africa's presence has an obvious and specific goal--to bar the country from the Olympics. This gives it a greater justification than the black American protest, which has no motive other than a vague desire to arouse white America's attention to the misery of the ghetto...