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When Democrats convened in 1968 to nominate Hubert Humphrey in Chicago, violence erupted in the surrounding streets as law enforcement clashed with students gathered to protest Lyndon Johnson’s war. Inside the hall, one Senator denounced the “Gestapo tactics” of Mayor Daley’s police, while the nation watched aghast as their televisions carried images of students being beaten outside. Incredibly, no one was killed, but the violence became one of many bitter moments etched in the nation’s memory of the turbulent...
...trial for organizing the 1968 demonstrations, whether he thought the violence of conventions past might rear its ugly head in 2004. Hayden, whose notoriety was rekindled on this campus when Harvard’s own Miami Four were arrested after traveling with him to observe globalization protests in December, says that while it’s a different time, he’s worried about a parallel emerging. If authorities look at quelling protest as a question of homeland security, he says, then they will retrace the outlines of a “repressive political script...
...animal-rights activist invited to speak at a course given by Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer ’86 is bringing, along with his guest lecture, a protest potentially involving nudity to Harvard Square next Monday...
Following the controversy two weeks ago over H Bomb, a proposed magazine that would feature nude undergraduates and received widespread national coverage, an msnbc.com “gossip” column reported the planned protest last Thursday, focusing on Mathews’ plans to hold a campaign against fur involving nude undergraduates...
...plot, such as it is, begins with the introduction of Matthew (Leonardo DiCaprio look-alike Michael Pitt) encountering Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel) at the protest of the closing of the French cinematheque, the classic movie theater where those three cinephiles had spent many an afternoon. Soon, Matthew has been invited to stay at Isabelle and Theo’s house while their parents are away and movie inspired sexual games ensue...