Word: protesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They were the kind of ugly street scenes that few presidencies survive. All last week, thousands of poverty-stricken Bolivians protested in the capital, La Paz, and around the country, railing at President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Sánchez - or Goni, as he is called - sent the army to restore order. As Bolivian soldiers fired on demonstrators, impoverished Indian mine workers used crude slingshots to hurl lighted sticks of dynamite back at them. But they were no match for the army's tear gas and bullets, and the clashes left as many as 80 people dead...
With the impending announcement of the Goodridge ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, it is paramount, now more than ever before, that the Harvard community take action to protest the discriminatory actions of the federal government. Bush’s official proclamation has defined Marriage Protection Week as an annual celebration. Instead of observing the anniversary of this proclamation of discrimination next October, we should work towards a more enlightened goal—one that would be filled with joy—the first same-sex marriage...
...Myths About a Living Wage,” this die-hard Folk and Myth concentrator buys her clothes from a website she read about in Mother Jones—a company that produces its clothes out of hemp and splits its profits equally among its workers. She attends innumerable protest rallies armed with a cup of fair trade coffee in hand. Her hair is washed with organic shampoo and her teeth brushed with organic fennel baking soda, both from Tom’s of Maine. She made her Macrame bracelet herself while on a summer expedition inspecting labor conditions...
Most Memorable Moment: Getting maced by NYPD at antiwar protest...
...NYPD has been essentially operating for the last three years without a new contract and had to organize a large protest in Times Square last summer just to get a retroactive contract for the previous two years, but which did not extend into the future. A police officer I was talking to on the New York subway this summer said he almost hopes that they don’t have a new contract by next summer so that they can have another rally during the Republican National Convention...