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...support Chavez as he funnels billions of dollars of oil revenues into social programs for the poor. The opposition movement remains fragmented and has only presented one candidate for December's presidential elections. And since the largest opposition parties pulled out of last December's parliamentary elections in protest over the electoral system, the National Assembly is made up completely of Chavez's allies. All of which means that for the moment at least, Venezuela's middle-class protests won't become a revolution capable of competing with their President...
Randall White, who is not related to Shelby White, resigned from a position at the NYU’s Center for Asian Studies to protest the university’s decision to accept a $200 million gift from the Leon Levy Foundation...
...What’s disgusting? Union busting! What’s outrageous? Harvard’s wages!,” protestors moved from the Holyoke Center to the Harvard University Dining Services headquarters to University Hall, where the administration was filtering in to a 4 p.m. Faculty Meeting. The protest was organized by Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) as part of the 2006 National Student Labor Week of Action. The hour-long protest was the first in SLAM’s semester-long “Right To Organize” campaign. In March, the group...
...invoked Christian arguments to voice opposition to selected issues like abortion, gay marriage, and stem cell research. Yet simultaneously they advocate social policies, such as this draconian immigration bill, that are antithetical to the beliefs of many Christians. In fact, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Protestant-led Sojourners Magazine have both called upon their followers to oppose the bill. And this spat over immigration is occuring less than three months after Congressional Republicans ignored the pleas of 150 religious leaders who staged a nonviolent protest against a budget bill that proposed cutting $40 billion from education...
...When Hope Died Our March 13 reporting from China related that growing numbers of farmers are demonstrating over land disputes, pollution and corrupt local officials. Can Beijing calm the rural discontent before it grows into a larger revolt? TIME's June 19, 1989, issue covered a mass protest that ended in tragedy-the Tiananmen Square crackdown...