Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reverend Zina Jaque, who hosted the event, warned spectators at the beginning not to expect a staid, sit-down evening...
...Reverend Zina Jaque, who hosted the event, warned spectators at the beginning not to expect a staid, sit-down evening...
...where workers earn just 69[cents] an hour making Michigan hats. They demanded that the university begin monitoring the production of Michigan clothing, which brought the school $5.7 million last year. In mid-March he and 29 classmates stormed into the university president's office. After a 51-hour sit-in, they emerged with a pledge by administrators to improve the conditions of workers who stitch Michigan apparel...
...time when campus protests are more likely to involve bans on booze than the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia, one cause seems to have galvanized students as nothing else in more than a decade. In the past three months the issue of sweatshop labor has sparked student sit-ins at Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin. Backed by unions and human-rights groups, students on more than 50 other campuses from Harvard to Holy Cross are circulating petitions, picketing college bookstores and launching websites calling for "sweat-free" clothing. At Yale, students held a "knit-in," doing needlework...
...beginning of the question-and-answer session, Hannum asked the audience to remember that the Albanians were oppressed. "Serbians killed women and children, villages were burned, massacres occurred," he said, "we shouldn't sit here and forget that these are the facts...