Word: protested
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...Student protesters delivered frosted cookies and cards to Mass. Hall, to Holyoke Center and to Loeb House--where the Harvard Corporation meets--to protest Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by companies like Nike to monitors working conditions in foreign apparel factories...
After being escorted out of Loeb House, Stoll said he thought the light-hearted protest was a success...
Your report left me angry as hell. People protest against the wearing of fur; some politicians support protection of the environment; others fight for the rights of the unborn or a woman's right to choose. And while these are all important and noble causes, it seems strange to me that no one is marching to protest about poor foster care. Children are being neglected, abused and murdered by those who are "chosen" to protect and love them. Why isn't anyone fighting to be their voice? TERESA DI VITA-GEREMIA Tuckahoe...
...child was warned not to roll down the car windows lest Ku Klux Klan members throw acid in her face; who as a teen watched men and women and children in satin robes burn a cross on her lawn; and who as a college student joined an armed protest to demand a black-studies program at Cornell University. She felt she had two choices after graduation: become a Black Panther or return to Nepal (where she had spent part of her junior year) to study at a Tibetan monastery...
...power again is no longer a plausible option for the military in a post-Cold War world, and the indictment of their former leader is simply a product of democracy and an independent judiciary. The most striking thing about the reaction the general's arrest has been how little protest it has provoked - small groups of well-groomed women have rallied to the general's cause, to be sure, but the majority of Chileans appear somewhat indifferent to the fate of the man who imagined himself to be Chile's savior...