Word: protesting
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Minister Louis Farrankhan, head of the Nation of Islam, has called for fellow African-Americans to join him in our nation's capital in order to protest the policies of the United States government. A promotional pamphlet promises, "The whole world will be watching to see if this march will produce civil unrest and strife. The world of investors will be watching to see if it is safe to invest in the economy of America. We say to the world you will be witnessing the power of Allah's (God's) Own Hand on the children of ex-slaves whose...
...element of our protest went insidiously overlooked by media coverage. outside of the classroom, we distributed an educational flyer which outlined our position and the reasons for it--using quotations from Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfied '53 as the appeared in The Crimson. In the flyer, we noted that Mansfield believes that blacks cause grade inflation and that their presence at Harvard is dubious. One might argue that Mansfield's comments about blacks render him unfit to teach, since his biases would prevent him from treating black students fairly or humanely. Mansfield's comments do not offer dialogue...
...Louis Gates and A. Leon Higginbotham have noted that The Bell Curve proves that it is not the uneducated racist who is the most dangerous. Mark Fuhrman's racism is easy to spot and "blacklist," but have you looked at your own "white lies" lately? This is what our protest is about. We urge members of the Harvard community to make loud opposition to institutionalized bigotry part of their daily routine in order to create a more harmonious and honest community. Ann Seaton, GSAS Michele Hunter, GSAS Joshua D. Oppenheimer '96-'97 James Clayton '97 Alexis Zubrow...
Oppenheimer said he will lead a protest next Tuesday in front of Widener Memorial Library to counter AALARM
...political storms that swept across China in 1989, "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" has drawn fire both from both the Tiananmen Square dissidents (who say it discredits the movement) and the Chinese government, notes reviewer Emily Mitchell. In three hours of interviews, television news coverage of the protest and archival footage, the movie re-examines those seven weeks when the student discontent of April grew into a mass movement that culminated in the June 3 carnage when the military ended the protests. Television in the West promoted a simplified view of a unified leadership among the students with a single...