Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon of Thursday, April 22, was an emotional one at Harvard. A group of SDS members, leaving University Hall after Dean Dunlop refused to talk into their tape recorder, marched to the CFIA, to confront Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government. When they reached the CFIA, Harvard police, alerted by walkie-talkie, had locked the building, and were guarding all the doors. The marchers separated, covering both front and back entrances. As they milled around, discussing strategy, they became aware of a towering presence in their midst. John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics and chronicler of the Affluent...
...four students then rejoined the rally outside and told the crowd what had happened. The group briefly chanted "Dean Dunlop, scared to talk, you should not be free to walk," then walked to the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) in order to see Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government. The doors to the CFIA were locked just as they arrived...
...giving no sanctuary to their enemies.... The war will continue untilmasses of people take concrete actions to stop it. We think that stopping the teach-in on Friday was such an action, and that it will help to build future actions against the war, like shutting down the CFIA...
...crowd dribbled out of the hall, SDS speakers called for a march on the CFIA. Around 100 SDS sympathizers marched to the CFIA where the march broke up in confusion...
...racism or male chauvinism, and what you've got is a red baiting smear of an organization that has consistently fought militantly in support of just struggles, even those of groups with which it deeply disagreed (e.g. Chavez Lettuce Boycott, NAC's campaign of last spring against the CFIA...