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...Bobby Seale contingent assembled on Beacon St. next to the Common at about 6:20 p.m., forming a line behind an Avis Rent-a-Truck mounted with loudspeakers. Banners and flags of the different groups on the march floated above the crowd, which grew larger as the marchers waited for people leaving the rally on the Common to clear the street in front of them: "FREE THE PANTHER 21-Youth against War and Fascism"; "Free Bobby Seale"; "Free all Political Prisoners"; "BRING THE BOYS HOME-Gay Liberation Front...
...minutes later, marchers began throwing rocks at windows of cars and houses lining Beacon St. NAC members acting as marshals ran through the crowd urging the rock throwers to wait. The rocks stopped...
...crowd moved down Beacon St., chanting "Free Bobby Seale-Now." It was an angry chant, with little of the happy, excited sound that had marked the chanting the day before. Groups marched with arms linked, looking forward, intent on getting where they were going...
...films of subversives to their files. Dong Miranda, an official of the New England Panthers, and Rafael Rodriquez from En la Lambrecha, a Boston Puerto Rican group, had spoken from the roof of the sound truck-the same sound truck in fact, which was leading the march down Beacon...
...situation was objectively the same on Wednesday, as this Bobby Seale march moved down Beacon St. Only nobody was laughing. And nobody was leaving...