Archive for: protest

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  4/20: A year later with John Demopoulos

  Apr 16, 2013comments

  Last year on April 20, the officials closed CU-Boulder’s campus to the public, spread fish fertilizer on Norlin Quad, threw a Wyclef Jean concert that saw little student attendance, and arrested three CU students for trespassing onto Norlin... read more »

   
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  Exercise your right to protest

  Apr 16, 2013comments

  It’s a true privilege to attend college at the University of Colorado. As students, we are challenged daily to think critically, to grapple with different ideas and to learn to formulate our own. And what is so wonderful about this environment... read more »

   
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  Occupy Boulder moves to Pearl Street

  Nov 21, 2011comments

  Beautiful, funky, eclectic, crowded—these are just some of the words that can be used to describe Pearl Street. Now, Pearl Street can add another word to that list: Occupied. On Saturday morning, a group of protesters with the Occupy Boulder... read more »

   
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  Feminism and the Occupy CU movement

  Nov 16, 2011comments

  CU Boulder is joining protestors from across the country in the struggle against corporate greed and poorly distributed wealth throughout the United States. In red, Michaele Ferguson, a political science and democracy & feminist theory professor,... read more »

   
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  4/20 perspectives

  Apr 18, 2011comments

  A marijuana-themed American flag waves above a sea of 4/20 celebrants on Norlin quad during last year's event. (CU Independent file/Lee Pruitt) In Boulder, April flowers not only bring May showers, but also clouds of marijuana smoke over... read more »