Word: protested
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Holding signs and chanting, more than 150 students and community member gathered at the John Harvard statue yesterday to protest last Friday's verdict in New York's Amadou Diallo case...
...which is still in its early stages, is not the real problem, says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "That is easily fixed," says Beyer. "The reason Barak lost so badly was primarily because the Shas party, one of his most important coalition partners, voted against him as a protest on an entirely unrelated issue - its demand for a greater say in the running of the education department. All he has to do to fix that is make some concessions on that front, and he'll do it because peace with Syria is more important...
...Yale does not withdraw from the FLA by March 27, student activists pledged to continue their public protest campaign...
...attention. Although the facts are similar--a city with a history of law enforcement abuse against minorities, a black victim and multiple white aggressors--this case is not at all the same. The Rodney King case led to an explosion of urban anger. The Diallo acquittal has stimulated nationwide protest, but the estimated 2,500 people who marched up and down Fifth Ave. last Saturday were largely peaceable, ordered, and multi-racial. In the King case, it was easy to blame the police officers; in the Diallo case the enemy is less clear...
Conner, the Brotherhood Chair of the BMF and a Crimson editor, thought up the idea to wear all black to protest the acquittal of the four police officers...