Academic Conference
An academic conference at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor occurred in March, 2003 . During that weekend, there was friction between the activists and the academics, growing out of different strategies, and the activists' claim that the academics didn't do enough to acknowledge their power and class privilege, and to share more of that with the activists.
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