Word: protested
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Douglass K. Hansen, a sophomore at Tufts University and a member of Tufts' Coalition for Social Justice, participated in the protest...
...used as fertilizer. Mostly, anyway. Raw, straight-off-the-turnip-truck foods have to be 100 percent "organic" to get the designation; processed foods can be as little as 50 percent organic and still receive a "made with organic ingredients" label. The decision comes two years after bushels of protest letters flooded the farm bureaucracy when it at first proposed allowing foods with any of those three elements to be known as organic, and is welcome news to farmers looking to survive in the increasingly important ($6 billion last year and growing) organic foods market...
...wanted to minimize the disruption, so that's why we closed the doors and isolated the protest," Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor said...
...They ultimately decided to carry on with the protest despite the locked doors, joking about the absence of Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine...
Although Matt Damon's hosting Cultural Rhythms is fortunately no longer the hot protest ticket du jour, the engines of racialism that powered this sad hoopla still continue at full throttle. These attitudes are disheartening commentary on the state of our interracial relations. Working through our less than hospitable reception of Damon, then, may be an opportunity to get us back on track...