Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it comes to demonstrations, few countries can match France for style or frequency. Piqued farmers fill Parisian streets with fruit and vegetables to protest low prices; striking truckers shut down major highways until their demands for better working conditions are addressed. And last week, another howling, angry mob jammed a cavernous exhibition hall in Paris to vent its outrage over a proposed change in French labor law. Only this time the participants were senior executives and business owners...
...retrograde," "idiotic" and "criminal." "This law is antieconomic," thundered Ernest-Andre Seilliere, head of the main employers association. "Nobody can make more by working less!" Truer to form, the Confederation Generale du Travail, one of the country's largest labor unions, was leading tens of thousands of workers in protest marches across the country, demanding that the law even mandate the hiring of new workers...
After Wu organized the recyclers and mobilized 100,000 people for a protest march in Taipei, the Taiwanese government investigated the foundations, concluded they were not doing the job and closed them down. Now the manufacturers' fees are funneled to the recycling companies that Wu represents...
Harvard's queer community must protest this silence which is, at least in part, self-imposed. It is our responsibility to speak as queer students for those who are still closeted, those still hiding behind a mask of counterfeit heterosexuality and sincere, if disinterested, concern...
...responsibility to challenge and push the limits of what has heretofore been held as "acceptable," "courteous" behavior, and to thereby expose that courtesy for the garrote that it is. In short, we must come together in protest, under a threat that is perhaps more immediate and closer to home than we had heretofore been willing to admit...