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...center by the French government's recent decision to turn away all new arrivals there, the men installed themselves instead in a tiny waterfront chapel and refused to leave. Some threatened to go on hunger strike. "We'll fight to stay here," their spokesman announced through a line of riot police. But when the riot police finally moved into the church, the migrants didn't fight but filed obediently into buses waiting to ferry them to local police stations. Before the eviction, Kurshid - an 18-year-old Iraqi Kurd who paid smugglers $6,000 for the month-long journey...
...call the police until about 5 a.m. At that time, I was on the steps of the building; I wasn’t inside. I remember the police pushed people aside on the steps and started pulling people out of the building. They came in with their riot gear, masks and billy clubs. All of the freshman boys, who lived in the Yard, were just looking out their windows. They had locked us all in there at that point—they had locked the gates to the Yard...
...dislocation. All of the roots that I’d put down in the community were torn loose, making me wonder, “Now where do I fit?” And it didn’t stop there. It went on for another year, until the 1970 riot. I think the 1970 event was bigger. After the National Guard shot those kids at Kent State, there was a riot that started in Boston. A crowd of anarchists had gathered—hundreds of them—and marched down Mass. Ave., setting fire to things and exploding tear...