Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, with two outs O'Donnell rapped a line drive just out of the Cornell short-sop's reach. Manchester singled, O'Donnell holding at second base...
According to the letter, Mississippi Power and Light engaged in "racist hiring practices" and had an "affiliation with segregationist legislators." A covering letter from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee later that May traced a complicated set of inter-relationships that they said formed the Mississippi "power base" -- Mississippi Power, the anti-integration White Citizens' Council and the state Democratic Party. SNCC claimed that these three organizations were the dominant political and social forces in the state...
While the anti-war feeling in this country has grown, the anti-war movement itself has failed to produce large numbers of politically educated people who are seriously committed to doing the organizing necessary to build a base which, and only which, can sustain a radical movement...
Throughout the demonstration we should articulate the need for immediately begining programs to create a larger and multi-class base for the anti-war movement, the need to integrate an anti-war line into present base building political organizing efforts, and the need to build connections between both types of programs. Hopefully, the force generated by the commitment to resistance involved in such a program of civil disobedience will provide the impetus to get anti-war base building programs significantly under way. We are convinced that no demonstration less serious than this will suffice to initiate these programs nationally...
...meantime, some of us should begin to take on roles which will extend beyond the organization for civil disobedience, specifically to take an leadership and training responsibility in building local organization that ties the anti-war movement to radical base building activity. These are a number of good examples of what this could mean in poor and working-class communities as well as in middle-class ones. What is necessary is that people with an organizing perspective begin to work with these movements...