Word: protested
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...Protesters have dubbed the upcoming 10 days of '60s-style rallies, teach-ins and street theater "Seattle Two: The Sequel," a clear reference to the riotous demonstrations that shook a World Trade Organization meeting in that city late last year. Fifteen hundred of the capital's finest, backed by federal law-enforcement agencies on 24-hour alert, will try to block any reappearance of the black-hooded anarchists who inflicted millions of dollars of damage on downtown Seattle. Njehu, who heads a coalition of more than 200 groups, will be on hand, along with thousands of union members, religious activists...
...this fall with in-store posters and brochures and keep the product on the shelves in 2,000 outlets for at least a year. Will the effort percolate through the whole $18 billion U.S. coffee industry? Global Exchange, the San Francisco-based human-rights group that organized the aborted protest, is calling on companies such as Folgers and Maxwell House to follow suit. Warns Medea Benjamin, a Global Exchange official: "Coffee without the Fair Trade seal is very likely sweatshop coffee...
...leave her beleaguered country. On New Year's Eve they boarded a boat for the U.S. with more than 400 other migrants. When the craft ran aground off the coast of Florida, Yvena was hospitalized for exhaustion; her children were shipped back to Haiti. The episode drew cries of protest from advocates for Haitian refugees, who pointed out the cruel contrast in the way those who flee Haiti and Cuba are treated. After widespread criticism, the Immigration and Naturalization Service brought the children back to the U.S. They and their mother are living together in South Florida, but all three...
...representatives of a number of non-governmental organizations before the weekend to underline the administration's efforts to bring the citizenry in on the discussion. But with both leading presidential candidates being free-trade boosters and Pat Buchanan's conservatism making him politically unpalatable to the bulk of the protesters despite his own hostility to international financial institutions, the protest movement may have little direct impact on U.S. presidential politics. But it's a heads-up to the professional politicians on both sides of Capitol Hill that a growing, and increasingly active, body of citizens is no longer prepared...
...moment, anyway, Larry Tannahill seems to be fighting a solitary battle. Despite its extreme nature, the Lockney drug policy hasn't elicited nearly as much ire as Tannahill's protest has. Since filing his suit, Tannahill has lost his job as a farm worker (his former employer maintains his dismissal had nothing to do with the case) and has woken up to discover his dog covered in paint, lying amidst threatening notes on his doorstep. Tannahill tells the Times that his goal is simply to protect his son's constitutional rights, but his refusal to abide by the school district...