Word: booting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Powell was in the Army. Boot camp is probably tougher than a chilly Commencement reception. But activists hope the repercussions of the protest will last far longer than his speech itself...
This small ceremony underscored the growing organizational savvy of the militant pro-life movement. The Melbourne boot camp, organized and led by Keith Tucci, a pastor and executive director of Operation Rescue National, offered its first batch of students a comprehensive curriculum of conflict. Antiabortion demonstrations seem, to the uninitiated, noisy, chaotic affairs. The Melbourne IMPACT training (which stands for Institute of Mobilized Prophetic Activated Christian Training) disclosed some recommended methods behind the madness...
...paid for, according to Tucci, by individuals and small businesses: still and video cameras, computers, cellular phones, walkie-talkies, copiers, fax machines. Pro-choice activists in the Melbourne area claim that the volunteers have also been trained in the use of phone taps and long-distance surveillance devices. Boot-camp officials neither confirmed nor denied the charge...
Tucci argues that his organization wants to abolish totally the practice of abortion through legal and nonviolent means. Boot-camp volunteers were required to sign a pact of nonviolence before every demonstration. And lessons were not given, as far as reporters allowed to witness some of the classroom sessions could determine, in several of the antiabortion faction's most extreme tactics: torching abortion clinics and suffusing them with noxious chemicals...
...They've changed their tactics -- more harassment, more stalking, more violence," says Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority, who last Friday took part in a pro-choice demonstration at a Melbourne church surrounded by about 150 clinic defenders. One statement from a boot camp graduate aptly underscored the persistence of those who took the course. He remarked, "You can draw a lot of comparisons between the fight over abortion and slavery. The abolitionists' movement lasted some 60 years, and it could be the same with abortion...