Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Abe Fortas put out his "little book" on civil disobedience earlier this year, it was only a matter of time until someone from the Left would step forward to challenge him. That Howard Zinn was the one who did is fortunate, for Zinn's new book, Disboedience and Democracy, Nine Fallacies on Law and Order, reveals at once some of the best and some of the worst of contemporary radical thinking...
...Jordan and the West Bank open. Now trucks coming from Jordan must unload on one side, and the goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers are now being lectured on anti-terrorist tactics and given courses in first aid, and schoolchildren are instructed in how to identify mines. Cinema ushers and janitors are undergoing training to learn how to take precautions against bombs...
...campaigned from Madrid, where he has lived since last August after completing his six-year jail term for stealing government funds. In absentia, he won a Senate seat, a position that will allow him to return home with im munity from civil suits. Eleven of his followers, moreover, have been elected Deputies to Venezuela's lower house so far. Some voters said they voted for Perez Jimenez because in the old dictatorial days, Perez Jimenez' police goons belted the bandits before they had a chance to rob anybody. Under the new democratic regimes, there seems to be more...
Wherever there is an unpopular cause that most lawyers would not dare touch, Bill Kunstler seems to show up as defense counsel. Kunstler, a Manhattan attorney, is a kind of courtroom paladin who specializes in protecting the right of dissent and even civil disobedience His recent clients include the Black Panthers, Negro Militant Rap Brown Yippie Jerry Rubin, and Roman Catholic draft protesters in Milwaukee and Baltimore. Since Kunstler's role is usually to attack well-entrenched precedent he can be counted on for an original pro vocative argument...
Freedom Riders influenced him to dedicate his efforts to promoting racial integration and defending civil rights demonstrators wherever local white attorneys were too scared to take their cases...