Word: vigil
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...demand [Jianli’s] release, he didn’t do anything wrong. All he did was bring democratic ideas to China and there’s nothing wrong with that,’” said Fu on a telephone interview immediately following the vigil...
More than 50 people gathered outside All Saints Church in Brookline on Friday night for an interfaith vigil in support of Jianli...
...Daily News on April 9, and then, as if on cue, a rash of more intimidating incidents began being reported. A vicious, hate-spewing message directed at anti-war protesters was allegedly scrawled onto a poster in front of the Afro-American Cultural Center; a student returning from a vigil for Iraqi civilian casualties said he was spit on; students who had hung flags upside-down in solidarity with Lo reported intruders turning the flags right-side up or stealing them. In two days, a total of six incidents of intimidation were reported to police. And just like that, without...
...room of a Yale sophomore who displayed an upside-down American flag in her window to express her opposition to the ongoing war in Iraq. They left hateful messages directed against the student herself, and more broadly, against Muslims and Iraqis. Several days later, Yalies holding a silent vigil in memory of Iraqi civilian casualties were spit upon and harassed at residential college dining halls. Then came more affronts: an obscene and threatening message was left outside the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, where many Muslim student groups meet...
...light of the increasing number of reported sexual assaults, and with the campus focused on this issue—last week’s Take Back the Night Candlelight Vigil brought together hundreds of sexual assault survivors and their supporters—the time is ripe for Harvard to take a hard look at the threat that sexual assault poses to its students and how it confronts that threat...