Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, the pro-democracy protest succeeded in turning the people against the government and the government against the people. Was the escalation of tension between the government and the people a tactical mistake? If so, should the student movement accept part of the responsibility for the tragic outcome...
...Since the end of rent control we've reallybeen galvanized toward keeping people in theirhomes," said Janice Zazinski, who organized Mondaymorning's protest...
...list of clients, including companies infamous for their overseas sweatshop labor and poor pay, such as Nike, Reebok and Liz Claiborne. These connections could lead to an awkward situation among the partner schools and their monitor and perhaps even result in an immobilizing conflict of interest. PSLM continues to protest the move, submitting its own suggestions for companies which should be hired to do the monitoring...
Instead, by urging students and workers to persist in a hunger strike and by preventing the government from welcoming Soviet leader Gorbachev on Tiananmen Square, the leaders of the protest humiliated and alienated Chinese leaders. The movement turned a paternalistic government into an authoritarian regime...
Ironically, the pro-democracy protest succeeded in turning the people against the government and the government against the people. Was the escalation of tension between the government and the people a tactical mistake? If so, should the student movement accept part of the responsibility for the tragic outcome...