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...crowd of 50 or so gathered in the posh rooftop residence of the Quincy House Masters on Thursday evening to celebrate the release of the book Protest Nation: Words that Inspired a Century of American Radicalism. Guests included undergraduates, alumni, graduate students, and faculty—mostly friends and acquaintances of authors Timothy P. McCarthy, Quincy House tutor and Lecturer on History and Literature, and John C. McMillian, Quincy House tutor...
...Protest Nation, released earlier this week, is a collection of speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos from all activists who shaped the backbone of America's radical movements and tradition of activism. In the vein of McCarthy and McMillian's previous book, The Radical Reader, the new book focuses on activist movements that challenged the country and changed history...
...Protest Nation is meant to inspire readers to do just that. Rebecca J. Cohen '12, who had McCarthy as an expos preceptor and spent her past two spring breaks on his alternative spring break program, said that the book will inspire anyone interested in advocacy, from civil rights, gay rights, to even environmentalism. "McCarthy is a huge inspirational model. It's great to see his work show on a national level...
...talk entitled “Truth and Consequences: One Man’s Quest To Openly Serve His Country,” Choi discussed his struggle to both appeal his dismissal from the army and to protest its gay policy...
...sorry to learn of the difficulties faced by Mr. Mejo, a sophomore at the Harvard Extension School, and admittedly, I cannot speak to his experience in seeking academic accommodations. However, I am writing to strongly protest his assertion, in his title no less, that Harvard, as an institution, "oppresses the mentally...