Word: protesting
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Judge (Kadeem Hardison), a Vietnam vet studying at Berkeley, becomes involved when a friend persuades him to monitor the police handling of a community demonstration. When a police squad comes to "deal with" the peaceful neighborhood protest, they deliberately cover their badges before diving into the crowd of mourners. Van Peebles' camera careens through the crowd as the sickening thuds of police clubs thrashing innocent protestors rise to an unbearable crescendo above the images of their bloodied bodies being dragged into police vans...
Mohandas Gandhi used the hunger strike. Union organizer Cesar Chavez used the hunger strike. Last Friday, a few members of Harvard's Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC) joined this moral crew, skipping the daily offerings of Harvard Dining Services in an effort to protest the absence of ethnic studies courses at Harvard...
...hard to imagine the Harvard Republican Club fasting to bring George Will to Harvard or history concentrators staging a sit-in to protest the new intellectual history track. By using a hunger strike, ESAC undermines its call for recognition by displaying its cause as essentially political and not academic...
...argue that there is little to be gained by studying race and the immigrant experience in America. Put Hu-DeHart reveals these laudable academic goals to be only on the periphery of the call for ethnic studies. Hunger strikes and sit-ins are a display of ethnic identity, a protest by people who perceive the American university to be dominated by a "Eurocentric" mode of thought that excludes non-white Americans...
...courtroom on Friday after their session with Ito, which was to resume Monday morning--several seemed to have tears in their eyes. In one sense, the fact that 13 jurors (including the white woman and black man alleged to have been involved in a racial incident) joined the protest is heartening evidence that the group is bonding, as most juries do, and can agree on a course of action. But, cautions psychologist Hans, it does not bode well that they are "bonding against the court...