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Rolls-Royce Phantom VI: The Car That Saved Prince Charles and Camilla [VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 10) -- There was panic in the streets of London. Angry student protesters smashed a rear window and threw white paint on the Rolls-Royce transporting Prince Charles and his wife Camilla on Thursday evening, prompting a full investigation from the Metropolitan Police force. Some of the protesters chanted "off with their heads!" as they ambushed the royal couple. The assault is one of many violent incidents related to demonstrations opposing a measure tripling university tuition fees; the controversial legislation was approved by British lawmakers on Thursday. Police chief Sir Paul ...
Prince Charles' Car Attacked During Student Protests in London
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Dec. 9) -- Students angry about a major tuition hike attacked Prince Charles' car this evening as he and his wife, Camilla, rode through the streets of London. The Associated Press reported that protesters kicked the vehicle on Regent Street in downtown London, hours after the House of Commons approved a measure that will triple tuition for British universities to $14,000 a year. A window on the royal car was smashed and the vehicle was hit by paint, but both Charles and Camilla were unhurt, the BBC reported. "Their royal highnesses are unharmed," said Charles' office, Clarence House. The ...
London Students Protest Tuition Hike Vote [VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 9) -- Student protesters took to the streets of central London today to oppose a proposed plan that, if passed by Parliament, would triple university tuition fees in Britain. Despite nationwide demonstrations and opposition from some Liberal Democrats, who are also part of the Conservatives' governing coalition, the increase is expected to pass. The move is part of a broader austerity effort to reduce the country's budget deficit. "The real danger for the government is not that they won't pass it through, but that it will be a policy fiasco," London School of Economics professor ...
Students Clash With Police in London Tuition Protest
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Nov. 24) -- British students have once again taken to the streets to protest government plans to triple university fees and slash state funding for further education. Police have surrounded thousands of demonstrators near London's Houses of Parliament. A police van abandoned by officers in the middle of the crowd was attacked by a small mob, who rocked the vehicle back and forth, smashed its windshield with wooden poles and spray-painted an anarchist sign on the roof. However, soon after the attack began, other students formed a human chain around the vehicle to prevent further ...
To California Student Protesters: Why Target the Regents?
By Andrew Clark - Politics DailyI have to ask: what, exactly, is the goal of the various University of California student protest movements and their vocal campaigns criticizing the regents' decision to hike tuition? It's true the UC system has been one of the biggest victims in California's budget nightmare. As a result of a $26-billion budget shortfall, the Democrats in the state legislature and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger enacted what the University of California has called "unprecedented state budget cuts of $814 million in 2008-09 and $637 million in 2009-10." It's also true that students have been ...
Thousands in California Protest Campus Cuts, Furloughs
By Frances Tobin - Politics DailyThousands of University of California students, faculty members, and employees rallied statewide Thursday to voice their concern about President Mark Yudof's and the regents' handling of the budget crisis (prior Cram coverage here).The walkout, scheduled on the day that most UC schools started their fall quarter, was intended to highlight the faculty's growing frustration over being forced to take furlough days outside of their regular teaching schedule. Participants also protested proposed budget cuts paired with tuition increases that would effectively increase undergraduate students' ...
Dying for Freedom
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyNeda Agha Soltan's path is not well trod, but it's clear. These days the names Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are rolling off of everyone's tongues. MLK and Ghandi are indeed the stars of nonviolent resistance, but a more apt comparison might be Nazi Germany's Sophie Scholl. ...
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