Word: sit-in
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...maybe it’s time to forget about that future Senate candidacy and chain yourself to a tree in Harvard Yard to protest globalization, stage a silent vigil in honor of the anniversary of some obscure labor revolt, even organize a sit-in in front of Leverett to protest the abuse of rabbits...
Liberals have taken Harvard to task, too, notably during the “living-wage” campaign in 2001. Democrats with national clout, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, supported the students who staged a three-week sit-in inside the University president’s office in Massachusetts Hall and cast Harvard as an epitome of capitalism’s social ills...
Paul S. Grogan, who served as Harvard’s vice president for public affairs during the sit-in, cited the event to argue that politicians of all ideological stripes have singled out Harvard in railing against socialism, capitalism, and everything in between...
Long before before Jenna Bush flashed a fake ID or Amy Carter staged a sit-in, another rebellious First Daughter was grabbing the nation's attention by lounging atop the White House roof smoking cigarettes, placing bets with a bookie and toting a pet garter snake named Emily Spinach in her pocketbook. "I can be President of the United States or I can attend to Alice," Theodore Roosevelt once said when asked to discipline his headstrong eldest child. "I cannot possibly do both...
...While blogging has put some young activists in danger, it also has provided a venue for friends and family to agitate for their release and advertise their plight. When 23-year-old Ahmed El Droubi was beaten and arrested at a peaceful sit-in a month ago, his friends and fellow bloggers leapt into action. "They created a Web site called "Free Droubi" that posted information about protests and updates on El Droubi's condition in jail, including posts featuring messages from the prisoner himself. A month later, El Droubi was released, but he and his friends continue...