Word: protesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hour of our choosing." But it 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon will also come in a way we still cannot imagine, because we are fighting an enemy we have never met. Suicide bombers are supposed to be 17-year-old zealots with nothing to live...
...response to an alleged race-based hate crime that occurred in a Boston College (BC) dormitory late Thursday night, students at BC staged a rally Monday. The participants said they were protesting what they saw as the lack of a uniform hate crime policy at BC. “We’re speaking out against the fact that there is no public or institutionalized hate crime protocol,” BC senior and former African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American (AHANA) Leadership Council President Omolara Bewaji told The Heights, the student newspaper, Monday. Five students were involved...
...harrowing. If you think you might be called up and killed in a pointless war, you’re much more likely to protest loudly than if you are under no risk of such a fate," Rich writes...
Still, campus activists point out that all student movements have to start somewhere. Gould-Wartofsky says he has spoken to a number of members from the movement that led the 1969 protest, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and he has discovered that "we have a lot of the same experiences. SDS started out as just a handful of people...
...Civil Rights and Feminist movements that buoyed and energized activists of the 1960s and 1970s. Changes in the economy over the past 40 years have enabled young Harvard alums to make substantial amounts of money in investment banking or consulting right out of college, discouraging radical action or protest during their time as undergraduates could...