Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personally offered to investigate, they showed no interest. "I don't care about no facts," he quoted Maddox as saying. "I'm not going to pursue it legally; I'm going to pursue it politically." Sharpton, McKinnon asserted, was all for exploiting the case to get a political protest movement going and boasted that the controversy would make them the "biggest niggers in New York." A new wrinkle developed at week's end, when McKinnon's cousin, Alvin McKinnon, revealed that Perry had a history of mental problems. Alvin, a Sharpton supporter, said his cousin "had popped the cork again...
Murray officers and employees contend that foreign ownership might harm the familial character of the company, which is still partly owned by descendants of Founder C.W. Hannon. In protest, workers have gathered more than 5,000 signatures, erected GO MURRAY billboards and even staged a pep rally starring Country Singer Larry Gatlin. The firm's board has rejected Electrolux's offers of $48 and $52 a share, but Wall Street investors think Electrolux is prepared to offer even more. Anticipating another bid, they sent Murray's stock to a high of $64 last week...
...winning a talent contest. Even Tracy Chapman, 24, a singer-songwriter out of Boston, sounds like a flashback. Her warmly praised debut album resounds with high purpose, in marked contrast to the growing legions of pube rockers, but to anyone who actually made it through the '60s, Chapman writes protest just like Phil Ochs and sounds just like Odetta out for a ride in a convertible...
Labeled a "national peaceful protest" to skirt the February ban, the walkout paralyzed manufacturing and transportation throughout the country. Nearly 80% of black service and industrial employees stayed off the job in Johannesburg and other major cities. The Association of Chambers of Commerce estimated the cost of the protest at $250 million nationwide. The sector least affected by the action was South Africa's important mining industry, where less than 10% of black workers put down their tools. Most miners, who live at the mines and are insulated from the political passions of the townships, simply walked to work...
...large, police and government officials avoided cracking down on the protest. In Cape Town, Minister of Manpower Pieter du Plessis offered to discuss the proposed labor-law amendments with COSATU. He declared that the controversial bill, which bans sympathy walkouts and, according to COSATU, encourages management to sue unions for losses incurred through unlawful strikes, was not in its final form. The conciliatory statement confirmed that despite two years of repression, black labor unions could still make their voices heard...