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...especially for Brown. “He needs to leave,” Herr said. “He is around too many people who are too different from him and cannot handle it.” Students from all faiths and ethnicities at Columbia have joined in a protest and candlelight vigil, according to Oki, Herr, and Rubin-Vega. Representatives from Harvard’s Black Students Association (BSA) and the BGLTSA also responded to the Columbia incident has also touched them. BSA President Nneka C. Eze ’07 said she e-mailed her Columbia counterpart...
News for the activists and agitators manning the barricades at this week's World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong: shouting slogans and carrying banners isn't the only way to protest. From encouraging fair trade to using organically grown, sustainable materials, some designers are finding that high ideals don't necessarily detract from high fashion. "Instead of screaming and yelling, get people to vote with their dollars," says Rogan Gregory, designer for Ali Hewson and her rock-star activist husband Bono's new clothing line, Edun. "Get them to spend their money on something that's good...
...Yudui came home from Shanghai to his native Guangdong province earlier this month to get married. Instead, the parents of the 26-year-old air-conditioner salesman are now preparing for his funeral. Last Tuesday afternoon, Lin joined what locals estimate was a 1,000-strong protest in southern China's Dongzhou village, where three people had been detained while demanding compensation for land that residents say had been seized by local officials to build a power plant. Hundreds of riot police and soldiers, plus several tanks, were called in to disperse the protesters with tear gas?not that unusual...
...French suburban youth are often Muslim, but being Muslim is not opposed to being French. In the future, a higher percentage of the French population will be Muslim. Does that mean the end of French society? No. That's the thinking of the racist far right. The young protesters want to get a job, be integrated into society and be treated like everyone else. In French fashion, they protest and burn cars, as French people in the past fought against inequality and stormed the Bastille. France's young Arabs are fighting for equality?a French ideal. I hope they succeed...
...characters themselves become part of the sets. Indeed, the end of the play finds Berenger crouching terrified under his table, but his tormented final protest and last line are not shouted until half the audience has already left the theatre...