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...cosseted élite. Video of the encounter ran on French TV for days. "The idea is to call attention in a fun and festive way to concrete problems and [the] unfair situations a lot of people face, but few think they can contest," says Karima Delli, a Black Thursday and Save the Rich member who was elected to the European Parliament on an environmental ticket in June. "Unlike earlier protest movements, ours isn't beholden to any party. Our supporters range from centrists to extreme leftists...
Central to the movement is the handful of single-issue collectives Bayou and his fellow activists have founded. Take Black Thursday, which is named - in a wink to the housing crisis faced by thousands of university students and young French workers - for the day France's best-known classified real estate supplement comes out. The group stages high profile squatting campaigns of empty state- and municipal-owned buildings. Last month, for example, 10 Black Thursday squatters theatrically moved out of a disused building for handicapped students they had occupied since January. That's how long it took to get municipal...
...Obama.Kennedy passed away last Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. after a year-long battle with brain cancer. He was 77. More than 25,000 mourners lined up to pay their respects to the senator at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston on Thursday, and a private memorial for Kennedy was held at the Library the following evening.A Government concentrator and Winthrop House resident in his undergrad years, Kennedy was elected to serve in the U.S. Senate in 1962. He was reelected seven times, making him the second-longest serving member of the Senate...
Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds sent an e-mail to Harvard College students and parents last Wednesday initiating the outreach campaign, and UHS held a meeting with freshmen parents last Thursday advising them about...
...behalf for two months, at which time the case will be reviewed. Had her plans not been put on hold, Dekker, whose trip would take two years, would have been on track to shatter the world record for the youngest solo trip around the world, which was broken on Thursday by Mike Perham, 17, from the U.K. But now the Dutch court will have to judge just how young is too young to face the physical and emotional strain of setting out alone on the high seas. (See pictures of an eco-voyage to the seven continents...