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...streets rather than staying in the classroom where, so it is said, a student who really cared about education would be. The academic sacrifices suffered to support these campaigns for the protection of higher education are indeed real, and students across the UC system remark they are suffering from "protest fatigue...
That will prove difficult. For the last month, farmers have driven their tractors along Greece's highways to protest plans to cut subsidies. Even the government's tax collectors walked out for a day, and on Feb. 10, state employees paralyzed the country for 24 hours. A long season of more strikes is almost a certainty...
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Greece's capital on Feb. 24 to protest government austerity measures designed to dent the national debt. The march was organized by labor unions to coincide with the second 24-hour strike in two weeks, which grounded planes, stopped public transportation and shuttered schools. The recently announced belt-tightening measures include tax hikes and government wage freezes. Greece faces a budget deficit estimated at 12.7% of GDP and the possibility of being the first nation to default among the 16 countries that use the euro...
...China has some 1,500 missiles stationed along the Taiwan Strait. And a decision by U.S. President Obama in January to approve the sale of more than $6 billion in military equipment to Taiwan has angered the Chinese government, which has postponed some military exchanges with the U.S. in protest...
...competition between them," says Valeriya Novodvorskaya, a prominent Soviet dissident and a vocal critic of Putin's rule. First arrested by the KGB for her activism in 1969, Novodvorskaya is no stranger to the opposition, but she is wary of the latest flare-up in public resentment. "A street protest is not a grocery store," she says. "You go there to demand your freedom, not to ask for more sausage on your plate...