Word: protesters
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Alex, who says he is not gay but "95% girl," chose to leave. Dozens of classmates--biological boys included--argued that the school was violating Alex's rights and donned hair bows in solidarity. But the protest was little comfort to the teen. "It really took a lot of guts for me to be confident enough to be who I am, and then this happens," he says. Alex, whose future plans include home schooling and a sex-change operation, says he originally went to private school to get a better education. This wasn't the lesson he expected...
Eighteen months after an ad hoc committee denied him tenure, Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz continues to protest the decision...
...protest was organized by the Free Burma coalition, an umbrella group of organizations working to free Burma from the military junta. The organization has chapters at many universities, including Harvard...
Madan said she was inspired to join the protest by the detention of 18 people in Rangoon for distributing prodemocracyleaflets last August, an event that madeinternational headlines. The students wereoriginally sentenced to a five-year prison termbut were instead deported after pressure fromother countries. Two of the people arrested inRangoon also participated in the D.C. protest...
...hope the moral reasons [for the protest] aretaken into consideration, said Shalini Nataraj, aprogram associate with the UUSC. "I hope that thejudge o magistrate looks at in within thiscontext...