Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight soldiers at Fort Jackson, S.C., circulated petitions asking the base commander for permission to assemble to discuss the Viet Nam war. Forty-three Negro soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, refused riot duty at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Prisoners at the Presidio of San Francisco staged a sit-down strike to protest stockade conditions and the fatal shooting of a fellow prisoner by a guard. Military personnel have defied orders against taking part in off-post demonstrations while in uniform. Underground newspapers, including The Last Harass, The Shakedown, Open Sights and Fun, Travel and Adventure (FTA) protest...
This may appear as a late comment on past events but you must understand that here on base the news reaches us a week late if at all. Basic training is a hermitage period and we didn't get to see a newspaper until out third week. Now out the basic, the tech school training seems to be an extension of the hermitage period...
...Perhaps I'm dreaming, but for the future I see martial law on campuses, in cities, and even military control of the government. We are walking a slim picket fence. Think about it for a while. I would appreciate comments. Ray Brassard 11631372 3628 Student Square Lackland Air Force Base, Texas...
...carried out in the Houses on the matter; and 2) the machinery for setting up political brigades should be re-vitalized (or vitalized) and mass support built up in the Houses for the three ROTC demands, the demand for amnesty and the demand on Black Studies. After such a base has been established, and only then, militant action can be taken with confidence and prevail. This is the only way to fight...
...organized, closed group. I am arguing for a shift in priorities so that SDS comes to think of itself as a group dedicated to giving a semblance of leadership and guidance to the whole student body. SDS must take its role of organizing the community and building a wide base of support much more seriously than it does at present...