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Zinn also co-led a demonstration in October 1980 that drew around 1,000 people to protest Carter’s foreign policy, specifically the possibility of a draft...
...love of Iran's youth, the mullahs seem happy to settle for torpor. "You have a situation," says my friend Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst in Tehran for the International Crisis Group, "where the majority of Iranians have neither the luxury to risk their livelihoods waging political protest nor the nothing-to-lose desperation and rage that result from penury...
...Independent. But in Jakarta, where he waited for his plane to Europe, Lloyd Parry stalled. Maybe it was just cold feet; maybe it was a foreign correspondent's instinct for impending mayhem. He canceled his flight and headed into the city, just in time to catch a student protest that would turn violent and help trigger the beginning of the end of Suharto's three-decade reign over the country. It was May 1998, and Indonesia was about to go insane...
...Rainbow Warrior is a tough old British trawler whose blunt bow has frequently poked into waters where it has not been welcome. It belongs to Greenpeace, an international environmental group that opposes whaling. Last week Greenpeace carried out its most daring protest yet. The ship narrowly escaped being captured, but seven Greenpeace members, six Americans and one Canadian, were detained by Soviet authorities ... Greenpeace believed that the Soviets were violating the [International Whaling Commission's] recommendation that only native groups be allowed to hunt the California gray whale. With 23 men and women aboard, THE RAINBOW WARRIOR STEAMED ACROSS...
Felt and two colleagues meet with FBI acting Director L. Patrick Gray to protest White House interference in the Watergate investigation...