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Sweeney, then the president of the Service Employees International Union, was scheduled to give a speech to the crowds gathered to protest the lack of health insurance for retired mine workers. But, according to United Mine Workers’ then-President Richard L. Trumka, Sweeney was nowhere to be found...
...three students—members of Students for a Just and Stable Future, a statewide network of students pushing for The Leadership Campaign’s clean energy goals—have been organizing “sleep outs” in the Yard throughout the semester to protest the University’s use of “dirty energy...
...such as Tufts and Brandeis have allowed and even encouraged on-campus sleep outs—the Tufts administration provided protestors with easy access to bathrooms for the night, campus coordinator Heather E. Bruckner says—and other coordinators say they were unaware of any academic consequences for protest-related arrests...
Perhaps this is merely the march of progress and my lamentation will go down as a typically shortsighted protest against change, akin to doomsday predictions about the Internet, Twitter, or texting. But just wait ’til the day when you open up your Facebook to see that you are a fan of Jim’s T-shirt Company and a member of the group Nominate Me for City Council Member of (insert small town here), and you might just realize that the “face” presented by that page isn’t yours...
...Everyone was very orderly, without protest, quick paced,” Hafrey told...