Word: americas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What we, the Weathermen, are trying to do here should be clear. We are beginning a war of the white young people against the United States of America . . . for the repressed peoples of the world...
They were events for the media to cover. and the Weathermen realized they had to get big coverage to achieve their main self-proclaimed goal: to show Third World people (the non-whites in America and abroad) that white people were joining them in their fight against white imperialism. The Weathermen talked frequently about how the people of Bolivia and Panama would see pictures of white kids fighting cops and how it would inspire them...
...26th Infantry (Yankee) Division Band of the Massachusetts National Guard played patriotic hymns through out the ceremony, beginning with "Americans We March," and finishing with "America the Beautiful...
...KNOW this is a radical thing to say, and you're not supposed to say radical things, but who runs the city of Boston? Is it the tenants or the landlords? Who decides what happens to the air in every city in America? The people who breathe it or the gas companies and the owners of Standard Oil? Somehow, on the critical matters, the men of wealth and power and privilege in America make the decisions of life and death for everyone else. The program notes reprinted this quote from Howard Zinn's Moratorium Day speech and the play gives...
...last time The Cradle Will Rock was produced at Harvard in 1938, and Leonard Bernstein directed it. After the 30's, radical theatre in America was dormant until very recently. A revival of this fine piece serves to remind us how politically powerful good theatre...