Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prior to the address by Moe Thee Zun, who was also the organizer of the 1988 student uprising in Rangoon, 12 student-activists burned Heineken packages and poured Pepsi into a trash can in front of Widener Library to protest those companies' investments in Burma...
During the event, several Lampoon staffers came to the microphone wearing disguises to "protest" Hartman's award...
...Lambda chapter wants to protest Colorado's Amendment Two, an anti-gay bill...
...every commander's nightmare. I said, 'Follow me,' and found myself alone." --Israeli militant Moshe Feiglin, leader of the group Zu Artzenu (This Is Our Land), after attempting to lead a group of West Bank settlers in a protest to block an Israeli highway. The protest was in response to the Israeli government's agreeing to transfer several West Bank towns to Palestinian control...
Superficially, such an event seems like a small victory for student activism. Certainly the substantive content of the protest was contemptible--only an idiot or an unreconstructed hedonist would wish to smoke cannabis after being fully apprised of the drug's ill-effects. Yet perhaps its form--with its persistent challenges to authority and the status quo--represented a first step toward a broader social consciousness among college students. Even if the cause of cannabis is bankrupt, Mass-Can could still claim a bit of credit for raising the political consciousness of its followers...