Word: protests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge District Judge Wendie Gershengorn ruled Wednesday that the divestment activists, who are charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing, could not argue the protest was necessary to prevent investments in companies which do business in South Africa. The seven had been seeking to persuade the judge and an eight-person jury that their blockade was warranted by the University's failure to completely divest from South Africa...
...Nineteen protesters were forcibly removed from the steps of the Fogg Art Museum by Cambridge police on November 21 after they attempted to block guests from entering a dinner for the Harvard College Fund. The cases against 12 of the protesters, including the first two undergraduates arrested during a political protest since 1969, were dismissed when they agreed not to contest the facts the police presented...
Yesterday morning the court heard theprosecution's opening statements, which includedtestimony from Harvard Police Chief Paul E.Johnson and from several Cambridge police involvedin the Fogg protest. Although Cambridge policemade the actual arrests of protesters, Johnson wasalso considered to be an arresting officer...
...THIS REASON, The Brutality of Nations is an important and timely book, even though Biafra collapsed in January 1970, when its soldiers "laid down their rifles and faded away." Dan Jacobs writes from an intimate knowledge of the events, having served as U.N. spokesman on Biafra before resigning in protest over U.N. inaction. His story, while sometimes devolving into an overly detailed account of who-said-what-to-whom, is informative and compelling...
...November 21 of last year 19 Harvard alumni and other antiapartheid activists were arrested while staging a peaceful protest outside a Harvard University fundraising dinner. They were protesting Harvard's refusal to divest its $300 million invested in companies doing business in South Africa. Seven of these individuals will go on trial today in Middlesex District Court...