Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people had ever heard of Karen Silkwood on that fatal winter day, but over the next five years her death sparked rallies and candlelight processions in New York, Chicago, St. Petersburg and Cleveland. A symbol for the feminists, the environmentalists, and the labor movement, her name was shouted at Seabrook and invoked in union halls. In 1979, when a federal court jury found Kerr-McGee guilty of negligience and awarded the Silkwood estate $10.5 million in damages, her picture made the front pages of papers across the nation. She became what Richard Rashke calls "a nuclear martyr...
...between--it is to be credited with helping win free toilet paper for the River Houses, and last year it staged a rock concert and a poorly attended spring picnic. Of late the assembly has grown even more timid; last week it refused to endorse the candlelight march against aid to El Salvador--as positive a student effort as this University has seen in three years--for fear of taking what one member called a "political stand...
Until two days ago, graduating seniors could claim they were the only students on campus to have witnessed a major demonstration at Harvard--3000 participated in a candlelight march for divestiture...
THIS THURSDAY, Harvard students will march by candlelight through the Yard and through Cambridge to protest American military aid to El Salvador. We urge every member of the "Harvard community"--students, faculty, workers and even administrators--to join, to add their numbers now and help swell this crucial movement...
...assembly decided last week to table a motion endorsing the committee's candlelight march until the opinion of the student body could be assessed...