Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...southern Germany another 200,000 protesters were arriving by bus, train, car, bicycle and foot. There too a human chain was formed. This one connected Stuttgart's U.S. Military Command Headquarters with Wiley Barracks in Neu-Ulm some 65 miles away, where peace movement leaders believe that the first of the Pershing IIs will be deployed. In Hamburg, an estimated 100,000 West Germans stood in the city center to observe the requisite five minutes of silence before dispersing for an afternoon of speeches. Here too the demonstration was smaller than expected. A plan for blockading the River Elbe...
When Advertising Executive and native Bostonian James Ryan, 52, got the itch to revisit his city's historic sights, he shrank from the prospect of whizzing past them on a crowded tour bus. Solution: he popped a prerecorded tape into his personal cassette player, consulted a small map that came with the tape, and set off by himself on foot...
Early in the morning, students from all over Boston helped with poll-watching. Then, the group of us--Black, white, Hispanic, Asian--got on the bus with big signs. "Vote for King" fliers, and the coveted "Mel King Para Alcada" buttons. First stop: a large magnet high school in Roxbury...
Then we got back on the bus, and hit the Dudley T and bus stop. We passed out fliers and cajoled people to vote. Next we canvassed a few housing projects in the Roxbury area. including Academy Homes, an enormous and economically depressed project. It is a nine story building of concrete and broken glass with a barbershop and variety store for its all Black residents. We visited another ward before ending a day that had begun at 6:15 in the morning...
People become alienated thinking about their single vote against the vote of thousands or millions. The "Bus", by creating small rallies at housing projects or at bus stops lets people know that they are not alone--that their vote can be part of a bigger movement. The students on the "Bus" were not only part of that movement but also were spearheading...