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About 30 people listened to readings, prayers and songs at a quiet vigil promoting alternate interpretations of Columbus Day yesterday evening...
Native Americans at Harvard-Radcliffe (NAHR) organized a candlelight vigil outside Memorial to remember the people whose lives were lost as a result of Columbus' landing and the colonization and conquest that followed...
This was the first year the event has featured a vigil, which Branch said communicated the essence and promoted awareness of the story of Columbus...
...opening address, Rodman emphasized that the vigil was not in opposition to Columbus as a man or Columbus Day as a holiday, but was an opportunity to express different cultural views...
...response from listeners was electric: Within hours of the shutdown, staffers and supporters set up camp outside KPFA's barricaded offices. For three weeks, protesters kept a 24-hour vigil outside the studios, picketing during the day and sleeping in tents in the middle of the street at night. Unlike more narrowly targeted actions, the KPFA demonstrations attracted a diverse lot-lifelong activists and aging hippies mingled with working professionals, neighbors and students, black and Latino as well as white. For decades, KPFA had supported everyone's movement, so when KPFA was in trouble, everyone came...