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On December 2,1997, the Boston Tea Party, originally held on December 16, 1773, was reenacted. The ship was the same, as was the location. The original Boston Tea Party was an expression by the American colonists that they had become so dissatisfied with the status quo a protest was necessary. Tea was among the items taxed, and thus the colonists, some disguised as Native Americans, unloaded tea from a ship into the Boston Harbor, rather than onto the dock, to protest the Tea Act.
The so-called Boston Tea Party of 1997 was also an act of protest against the status quo. The protesters also wore costumes. They were doctors and nurses dressed as early American colonists. They did not throw tea into the harbor; rather, they threw the annual reports of for-profit hospitals....