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Over 60 people gathered by MIT’s Stratton Student Center yesterday afternoon to protest Israel’s continued military attacks against Lebanon...
...Medical Detectives”; and Social Analysis 76, “Global Health Challenges.” Spring courses include Historical Study A-12, “International Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World”; Literature and Arts A-86, “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac”; and Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form.” Other courses include Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” taught by McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis...
...coercion, intimidation, inaccessibility, and inaction, the people of Meheba are cheated out of their right to complain. In a refugee camp with 14,000 people, no doctor, and inadequate resources, the most glaring human rights abuse is not the abysmal living conditions, but the refugees’ inability to protest or speak up about the problems in their lives.Officially, my job here is to deliver computer literacy and journalism workshops. Unofficially, I am approached every day by countless people begging me to help them get ration cards, passes to leave the camp, medicine, or sponsorship for education?...
...bloodshed. While not directly criticizing the White House's refusal to call for an immediate cessation of Israel's attacks on Lebanon, he complained that the crisis "could have been contained at its early stage" and demanded that the international community issue "a serious and urgent demarche"[diplomatic protest]to achieve peace and security...
...servant under Tung and the last colonial Governor, Chris Patten. Chan's return to the political arena has caused a commotion. Known as "Hong Kong's conscience" for her steadfast support of the city's freedoms, Chan was mobbed by supporters and reporters when she joined this year's protest; as many as 1 in 4 demonstrators said her participation encouraged them to march. Last week, Chan gave her most detailed speech yet, criticizing the slow pace of democratic reform, and announced that she'd form a working group to look at ways of hastening its arrival...