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Frankly, I'm more than a little worried that a group like the Attica Brigade may do something violent. The Attica Brigade, you might remember, led the trashing of the Center for International Affairs during the spring of 1972. The Brigade manipulated a group of anti-war demonstrators returning from a Boston rally into an attack on the CFIA--a move which made no political sense. Who knows what they will be up to tonight? Also, the Ford demo could bring a lot of radical activists out of retirement and back into the fray. A former SDS leader...
Organizers of today's planned demonstrations--including the New American Movement (NAM), La Organization, the Radcliffe Women's Organization, the Attica Brigade and several leftist labor unions--called last week for picketing outside the Harvard Club and the Sheraton. The groups attacked Ford as a representative of the Nixon administration and its policies...
...Attica Brigade has been publicizing Ford's visit at several Boston schools, including Boston University. In past protests, the Brigade has gone beyond picketing--it led the trashing of the Center for International Affairs here in the spring of 1972, and more recently threw eggs at former secretary of defense Melvin R. Laird when he spoke in Providence, R.I., in January...
Also involved in planning the demonstration are the Attica Brigade, the Black Collective, the Harvard-Radcliffe Political Action Group, La Organization, the Organization for Solidarity of Third World Students, and the Radcliffe Women's Organization...
...kind of hero we need is the woman Gene and I met in Boston, or tenant organizers in urban ghettoes or women picketing for equal pay and equal rights under law. A doctor in Roxbury would make a good hero. So would the people raising money for the Attica Brothers. Those who run half-way houses for men and women who otherwise would be in reformatories, prisons, or insane asylums are heroes. So are the Farah strikers and the California farm workers. All these people deal with suffering. All these people open possibilities for the future. They are heroes even...