Word: graffitiing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...council passed a bill to amend an anti-homophobia grant authorized this spring. After a gay tutor in Mather House was the target of repeated homophobic graffiti last year, the council voted to allocate $1,000 from its special fund to challenge a student group to host an anti-homophobia event...
...study predicting that within five years the music industry will lose $ 3.1 billion to piracy and the newfound independence of musicians. The music labels tried for a while to convince themselves that online piracy was a young person's sport, something that would be outgrown, like binge drinking and graffiti writing. But the truth is not so reassuring. A Pew Internet & American Life Project study found that more than half the downloaders are over 30. They're not just copping...
...CULTURE may be difficult to define, but it is pervasive nonetheless. It began simply as a combination of four art forms - deejaying, rapping, break dancing and graffiti tagging - but it quickly evolved into a cultural revolution in which young African-Americans literally remade their America. In the spirit of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, they didn't simply demand to be admitted as an equal in Whitey's world; they created their own popular culture grounded in the lived reality and aspirations of black life in America. Far from demanding to join the club, the hip-hop kids created...
...finished." No matter what street of Belgrade you walk down these days, you will run into this graffiti. Activists of the student pro-democracy movement "Otpor" (Resistance) have put it up on virtually every wall in the city. "He" refers to Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Yugoslavia and the last dictator in Europe. Milosevic has been the dominant political figure in the Balkans for the past 13 years, leading Serbs into four wars, including last year's confrontation with NATO over Kosovo...
...dismay of the Milosevic regime, they just won't go away. A day after a state-owned building had been repainted because "Otpor" used it as a graffiti bulletin board, the people of Belgrade found a new inspiring message on it: "Paint jobs won't help. He's finished." The rest of us Serbs have no right not to take their word...