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Opponents of a sale protested yesterday by holding a sit-in at the museum that was organized by the Brandeis Budget Cut Committee, a student organization founded last month to protest what organizers call the administration’s policy of making decisions without first consulting students and faculty...
...force the return of convicted Italian terrorists, reversed his earlier decision, and blocked the extradition to Italy. While his wife was pleased and most of France barely noticed, many in Italy were outraged at Bruni's involvement. A week later, an Italian victims' rights group came to Paris to protest at the Elysee doorstep...
...Burma's ethnic groups face persistent discrimination by the military regime. They are the targets of unpaid forced labor campaigns, scorched-earth policies that destroy farmland and relocation programs that require entire villages to move at a moment's notice. (See pictures of Burma's 19 years of protest...
...Jihad and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The E.U. move, which came after a long lobbying campaign by the MEK's supporters in Europe, sparked an outcry in Tehran. About 300 people were gathered around noon on Wednesday in front of the British Embassy in Tehran to protest the E.U. decision. Some in the crowd threw stones at the embassy, while others held up shoes on sticks in a show of deep disrespect in the Middle East...
...Still, union leaders warn they may repeat the action if Sarkozy fails to respond to what they say was the biggest labor protest in 20 years. "I cannot imagine tomorrow we'll hear the same old 'I saw nothing, I heard nothing, and I have nothing to say,'" Bernard Thibault, general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor warned Thursday. "It's just not possible...