Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse Jackson will speak at a noontime rally on the banks of the Charles today to protest the antiunion activities of airline magnate Frank A. Lorenzo, whose Harvard Business School class is celebrating its 25th reunion this weekend...
Rally organizers said yesterday that Lorenzo'spresence was not necessary for the protest to be asuccess. "We're making a statement," said oneorganizer who asked not to be identified, "whatdifference does it make whether he is there ornot...
Otherwise there have been no moves byshareholders to protest these companies' actions.Connolly said that of the 25 largest insurancecompanies doing business in Massachusetts, 19 ownstock in tobacco companies...
...little bit like correcting a rabbi on liturgy during services--sacriligious, audacious and irrelevant. If Bok and the Corporation did not believe they were somehow above the fray political convictions, why would Harvard fail to divest of its South African holdings, after faculty dissent, 10 years of campus protest and a general consensus on the question? Ignoring such ephemeral considerations may be well and good for the University, which one sage aptly described as being here forever, as opposed to the student body which is remade from scratch in perfect, four-year cycles...
Last week, briefly, an exaggerated wire-service report made it seem that protest had veered into real violence and an attack on the Games. On the route of the Olympic-torch procession, outside the Seoul city limits at the gate of Kyungwon University, police and students clashed in the familiar rock and fire-bomb ritual. The students were driven back, and one bomb was thrown over the university wall. It burned out at least 15 minutes before the torchbearer passed...