Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least a million Americans joined yesterday in the largest anti-war demonstration in the nation's history. From Boston to Berkeley the Moratorium supporters heard speeches, conducted marches, and held silent vigils demanding an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam...
...Columbia University's governing senate authorized students and faculty to join in the Oct. 15 activities "without penalty or prejudice," and issued a call for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Viet Nam. - Berkeley took no official stance for or against. Moratorium sympathizers mobilized a wide segment of the political spectrum in their community, from McCarthyites to various radical groups. The Women for Peace will toll church bells all day long to commemorate the war dead; others are planning vigils at draft boards and induction centers. Speakers invited to address a mass rally include Coretta King...
Even though the students have barely unpacked, their sentiments often reflected differences in mood from one campus to another. The freshmen at Southern schools-Alabama, Texas and Duke, for example-tended to support the Viet Nam war, while the critics were concentrated at Berkeley, Harvard, Michigan, Wayne State and Oberlin. A revolution was deemed necessary by a majority at Berkeley and at predominantly black Morehouse, but there were few such extreme radicals to be found at Alabama, Miami-Dade Junior College or-surprisingly-Harvard...
...University of Alabama, University of California (Berkeley), California Institute of Technology, Duke University, Harvard, University of Kansas, Miami-Dade Junior College, University of Michigan, Morehouse College, University of Notre Dame, Oberlin College, Smith College, University of Texas (Austin) and Wayne State University...
...alone. In Missoula, Mont., for example, housewives outraged by the foul smells from a local pulp plant have organized GASP (Gals Against Smoke and Pollution). Similar groups have used the same acronym in other cities including Washington, where GASP stands for Greater Alliance to Stop Pollution. In Berkeley, a group called Ecology Action has developed a kind of street theater to dramatize pollution protests. To celebrate "Smog-Free Locomotion Day," the members recently took to pogo sticks, stilts, bicycles, unicycles, roller skates-any and every alternative to the internal combustion engine. Later they symbolically buried an auto engine painted black...