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...leaders to keep a $50 billion aid commitment is to protest in the streets. Another is to show them that aid has a logic. The schedule for the day is relatively low wattage; no world leaders, no movie stars, just discussions with academics and development experts at Harvard and M.I.T. who might feed DATA good policy ideas and catalytic facts. At Harvard, Bono is greeted by president Larry Summers, an early Bono skeptic while Treasury Secretary under Clinton but now a true believer. (It is something to see the president of Harvard greet a rock star with a soul...
...firmament of international antiglobalization activists, South Korea's militant farmers are superstars. Organized with military precision and armed with an almost suicidal disregard for personal safety, Korean farmers have repeatedly clashed with police, most recently at a Nov. 15 protest in Seoul where over 100 were injured. So when Hong Kong announced that 9,000 police officers would be on duty during the Dec. 13-18 World Trade Organization (WTO) talks, it's safe to say that they weren't posted to protect the city from the Philippines Domestic Helpers General Union. Some 2,000 South Koreans were scheduled...
...week when the WTO talks themselves were stultifying even to trade ministers, the South Koreans may have provided the only surprise-they displayed relatively good behavior. Many ended their protest march on the conference's opening day not by running amuck but by taking a dip: wearing orange life jackets, over 100 Koreans leapt into Victoria Harbour, floating just a few hundred meters from the convention center where the talks were being held. It was a peculiar act of protest, but it was brave-the polluted waters of the harbor haven't been safe for swimming in years. "I cannot...
...Many Sydneysiders believe that, for whatever reason - and many suspect a perverse form of political correctness is at work - police haven't cracked down on this behavior as they should have. Commissioner Moroney appeared to sympathize with this view: until it exploded into vigilantism, he said, the protest was legitimate. Recent high-profile rape cases involving Lebanese-Australian perpetrators and memories of the Bali bombings - many of whose victims hailed from the city's southern suburbs - may also have inflamed passions in Cronulla, though locals maintain that at least 80% of the rioters were from elsewhere...
Perhaps the most frustrating expression of Quadling angst in recent memory came this October, when Quad United Against Library Discrimination (QUAD; the “Library” is cunningly omitted) staged a protest outside of the “Party in Lamont”. Having Lamont open 24 hours while Hilles’ hours are shortened, QUAD claimed, constituted unfair treatment of Quad residents...