Word: protested
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...year later, the officers were cleared of all charges in connection with the incident, setting off a firestorm of protest across the country and at Harvard...
Cochran and Ogletree praised the work of students who have been active in protest of the Diallo verdict and police tactics, drawing comparisons to influential civil rights movement member Rosa Parks...
...between Castro and the hard-line exiles--a desperate craving for geopolitical attention in this post-cold war world. Few dispute the genuine grievances of the exiles, especially those who have suffered human-rights abuses under Castro, like imprisonment for "counterrevolutionary activities." But the older hard-liners, despite their protestations of U.S. patriotism, are still steeped in the authoritarian political culture that existed in Cuba long before Castro took power in 1959. Since then, the U.S.'s Cuba policy has indulged the notion that Miami, because of its special anti-Castro mission, sometimes gets a pass on the democratic rules...
...farm child in Kenya, Njoki Njehu grew up in a house with no electricity and worked after school with her five brothers and sisters on plots of bananas, sugarcane and maize. From her mother, a champion of women's and environmental causes, Njehu imbibed the importance of social protest--a lesson she learned well enough to emerge as a top leader of the tens of thousands of opponents of global capitalism who are expected to converge in Washington this week on meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The target of their wrath: everything from the treatment...
Earlier this spring Washington, D.C., police chief Charles Ramsey must have looked at the video from December's anti-WTO protests in Seattle and said, not in my town. So when a crowd estimated at between 6,000 and 10,000 showed up to protest a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Ramsey was ready. Police using pepper spray arrested 630 protesters Saturday (including a Washington Post photographer) and another 40 early Sunday. They also conducted raids, confiscating dozens of the metal "sleeping dragons" protesters use to lock their arms to form human chains, and fire...