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The protesting UCL students ( some of whom were RCG members or supporters ) organised a panel discussion to be held during which representatives from several leftist organisations ( including the RCG's David Yaffe as well as figures from the Green Party of England and Wales, Socialist Appeal and Workers Power ) discussed the reforms then being made by the government and university authorities to higher education in Britain.
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The Public Safety Department came under heavy criticism, from student groups, after several students protesting tuition increases tried to occupy the lobby of the Baruch College.
* 1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
The students were protesting the United States ' invasion of Cambodia.
German students protesting against the Vietnam war often wore discarded US military uniforms, and they made influential contacts with dissident GI's -- draftees who did not like the war either.
Subsequently, Oxy students wrote 7, 000 letters to Washington D. C., protesting U. S. involvement in the war in Southeast Asia.
On 11 April 1968 Rudi Dutschke, a leading spokesman for protesting students, was shot in the head in an assassination attempt by the right-wing extremist Josef Bachmann.
On May 18, 1980, a confrontation broke out in the city of Gwangju between protesting students of Chonnam National University and the armed forces dispatched by the Martial Law Command.
Many started to sympathize with the protesting students.
* March 21 – Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U. S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of " America is the Black man's battleground!
** Hard Hat riot: Unionized construction workers attack about 1, 000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall.
However, in February 2011, students gained access to the old HRC building, situated at 13 University Gardens ( Hetherington House ) and have now " reopened " it as the Free Hetherington, a social centre for learning and lectures, as well as protesting the shutting down of the club.
In the modern era, beginning with its massive student protests during World War II against fascist occupation, and continuing in the fight against the dictatorship of Georgios Papadopoulos ( 1967 – 1974 ), students in Corfu have played a vanguard role in protesting in favour of freedom and democracy in Greece, setting themselves against both internal and external oppression.
In 1967 he became Minister of Education, and the following year, he was the target of strong criticism from left-wing students protesting against the government's plans for university reform.
He was active in the UNEF students ' union, protesting against the war in Algeria ( 1954 – 62 ).
The Mexican newspaper, The News, reported that “ a tribunal of three circuit court judges ruled that there was not enough proof to link Echeverria to the violent suppression of hundreds of protesting students on Oct. 2, 1968 .” Despite the ruling, prosecutor Carrillo Prieto said he would continue his investigation and seek charges against Echeverria before the United Nations International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.
* The Tlatelolco massacre of 1968 in which Mexican police and military forces killed more than 300 protesting students
On Monday, April 23, 1951, Barbara Johns, the sixteen-year-old niece of Reverend Vernon Johns, led students who staged a walkout protesting the conditions.
Students later occupied a lecture theatre and private security guards tried to remove protesting students.
Sherman's later albums grew more pointedly satirical and less light-hearted, skewering protesting students (" The Rebel "), consumer debt (" A Waste of Money ", based on " A Taste of Honey "), and the generation gap (" Crazy Downtown " and " Pop Hates the Beatles ").
In November 2009, Anti-Flag showed their support to the protesting students in Vienna.
Between October and December 2010, Goldsmiths was " occupied " three times, by students protesting proposed increased in tuition fees and government cuts to higher education budgets.
In May 2003, nearly 5, 000 papers were stolen by students protesting coverage of the arrest of a Cal football player.
As he entered the Quadrangle, in an incident which made national news headlines, Ó Cuív was met by a group of fifty students protesting the introduction of fees, one of whom the Minister later accused of manhandling his secretary.
On 2 February 2009, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was blockaded and jostled out of NUI Galway by a group of angry students protesting over the reintroduction of fees as he attempted to lecture the Literary and Debating Society.
Rooted somewhere in the mists of the 1940s, originally the outgrowth of an unhappy group of women students protesting on-campus policies, Mufti is a secret society of punsters-as-social-commentators.
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During the trial, Jiang Qing in particular was extremely defiant, protesting loudly and bursting into tears at some points.
Allègre has accused those agreeing with the mainstream scientific view of global warming of being motivated by money, saying that “ the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people !”
Some corps managers, directors and instructors walked out of the 1969 VFW national rules committee meeting after their requests for major rules changes were not approved, and some of the protesting participants then formed the by-invitation-only ( and short-lived ) Midwest Combine in 1971.
On May 2 and 3, 2006, several groups of bus drivers not associated with TransMilenio held a strike, protesting against some elements and consequences of the system.
A newspaper article denouncing " teenagers practicing Qi Gong ," with some parts specifically targeting Falun Gong, in Tianjin in April triggered a series of events which eventually led to over 10, 000 practitioners silently protesting outside the Beijing Zhongnanhai Compound, near China's Central Appeals Office, to appeal for the release of detained practitioners.
Among the dateable compositions is the motet for Anne of Brittany ; compositions copied in a manuscript between 1515 and 1519 ; a motet protesting the 1527 sack of Rome ; some madrigals Festa sent to Strozzi in 1528 ( they were named " canti "); a lost 1533 madrigal to a poem by Michelangelo ; music for a 1539 Medici wedding ; and other compositions in hand-written manuscripts which have been dated.
The party relished the endorsement, although contemporary FBI records indicate some critics of the perceived huckster were expelled from the party for protesting the alliance.
On May 22, 1810 some 400 inhabitants of the Cabildo of the Valle de Upar rebelled against the Spanish monarchy, protesting against Mayor Colonel Marques de Valde-Hoyos.
In the last decade of Dubinsky's tenure some of these new members began to rebel, protesting their exclusion from positions of power within the union.
It was this attack which precipitated the war Bread & Puppet Theater was protesting, and the company's " anti-war stance " reportedly "... already placed it at odds with some New Yorkers ", according to Dan Bacalzo of TheaterMania. com.
The party relished the alliance, although contemporary FBI records indicate some critics of the perceived huckster were expelled from the party for protesting the alliance.
Relations between the Americans and the local Italian nationals are cordial, despite some anti-American demonstrations outside the base protesting the Iraq War.
Rhodes was included on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list in 2003, to his own bemusement and frustration, partly because of Granta's selection methods (" It's one thing to judge a writer by stuff they've written, but to judge them on stuff they're going to write is lunacy ") but also because some of the others on the list failed to respond to his request to sign a joint statement protesting against the Iraq war.
She begins to get involved with some of Markus's friends, and with protesting the new Austrian president, who Markus's friends tell her is a Nazi.
While some accounts say that this was to ensure that George Washington remained the only American president unanimously chosen by the Electoral College, others assert that he was instead calling attention to his friend Adams as a potential future presidential candidate, or protesting against the " wasteful extravagance " of the Monroe Administration.
Even though there were some students groups supporting the idea of a violent revolution the protesting students were mostly peaceful.
: Noon on Doomsday finally went on the air several months later, but in a welter of publicity that came from some 15, 000 letters and wires from White Citizens Councils and the like protesting the production of the play.
In the last decade of Dubinsky's tenure some of these new members began to rebel, protesting their exclusion from positions of power within the union.
Greater Morocco is a label historically used by some Moroccan anti-colonial political leaders protesting against Spanish, Algerian and French rule, to refer to wider territories historically associated with the Moroccan Sultan.
On November 1928, workers of the United Fruit Company in the Department of Magdalena mounted a strike protesting unfair labour practices and conditions imposed by the company to the workers and the community at large, the United States responded by threatening to mount a military invasion of some sort to bring to an end the strike.
In April 1987 farmers in southern Vietnam began protesting against collectivised agriculture, with some even occupying collective farm offices.
The Lumumba-Zapata Coalition ( which has since been re-established ) along with other students claimed the Dimensions of Culture Program had lost some of its original messages, protesting against what they termed a " new and diluted " core writing requirement with a decreased focus on race and the ethnic significance of the individual within society.
On May 30, 1925, a strike in Shanghai of radical students protesting the arrest of some of their fellows who had been supporting a strike at a cotton mill was fired on by police, killing 12 protestors.
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