Word: protestations
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...days after 3,000 people marched down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest the Amadou Diallo verdict, Harvard students will hold a quieter protest...
While a large community rally is scheduled for this afternoon at Government Center, concerned students plan to wear all black to protest the verdict...
...protest is being sponsored primarily by the Black Men's Forum (BMF), but other organizations, including the Black Students' Association (BSA), Harvard African Students Association (HASA), Education for Action and the Haitian Alliance will be participating as well...
Four white New York City policemen charged with murdering an unarmed black man are free - but the trial of the New York City police department has probably only just begun. On Sunday the Rev. Al Sharpton staged a protest at the U.N. over the controversial verdict: All four officers accused of murdering West African immigrant Amadou Diallo found not guilty Friday evening on 24 counts ranging from murder in the second degree to reckless endangerment. While New York's cops had prepared for the worst, reaction in the city was more bewildered and pained than violent. People began to take...
...with negative campaigning: the guy who fights back is the one who gets called for the foul. It is a rhetorical and psychological truth that you cannot be the one to praise your own achievements. Just as true, alas, is the fact that you cannot be the one to protest and/or react to the harm done to you. It happens in basketball all the time--a player puts up with shoves, elbows and the occasional stranglehold until he can't take it anymore and retaliates. Because of what I like to call the Murphy's Law of Blind Referees...