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Demonstrating Exploitation 

A Latino activist group has gained largely positive media coverage for organizing student walkouts to protest government social policies. But how admirable is it, really, to endanger young children for political purposes?

Wednesday, Jan 6 1999
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For all the adoring press Olin's multithousand-student rallies draw, the rallies themselves have produced relatively little, other than television spots that hold up the protesters as heroes for ... protesting. And for all the energy and passion put into Olin, many of its protests seem misinformed; much of its anger misplaced, or even a bit pathetic.

Thinking back to the day her office was taken over, Chou says she has no hard feelings toward the Olin organizers -- just pity. "The police asked me whether I wanted them arrested. I said no," Chou says. "I felt sorry for them. I think they are misled.

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