Word: protests
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Born in the isolated fishing village of Port Salut, Aristide moved with his widowed mother to the capital and was educated by Salesian priests, a group dedicated to charity and spiritual instruction for poor and orphaned children. Even before his ordination in 1982, he began writing protest songs about the exploitation of the poor. Sent to Israel and Canada to study the Bible and psychology, he returned to Haiti in 1985, just in time to participate in the nonviolent anti-Duvalier movement. After Duvalier's ouster, Aristide continued to be a persistent critic of the government and an outspoken proponent...
Then came the real bombshell: "I am resigning." As cries of outrage and surprise sounded through the hall, Shevardnadze waved his hands and added, "Don't react, and don't criticize me. Let this be my personal contribution, my protest against the advance of dictatorship. I believe that to resign is my duty as a man, as a citizen, as a communist. I cannot reconcile myself to what is happening in our country and the trials awaiting our people...
...Klaipeda, a hotbed of tension between ethnic Russians and Lithuanians, sent soldiers toting submachine guns to patrol city streets and gave them authority to check documents and arrest civilians. This escalation gave weight to rumors that Moscow planned a military crackdown on the rebellious Baltic republics and prompted a protest from the Lithuanian government to Gorbachev that the actions of the Soviet army brutally violate the human rights of ((Lithuanian)) citizens...
...Walesa boasted of being a "true Pole" with the "documents to prove it." It sounded like a sly dig at Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the target of whispers that he had Jewish ancestors; he came in a poor third. Mazowiecki is not Jewish, but Walesa made no effort to protest that such an issue had even been raised. To show he is not anti-Semitic, a fairly repentant Walesa last week agreed to sponsor a Holocaust museum memorializing the Nazi killing ground of the old Warsaw Ghetto...
...stay at the anti-war protest very long. The air of apathy bothered me and, in all honesty, I felt drawn to do all those errands that I was supposedly required to do as a Harvard student--class, a fellowship application, homework. Excuses...