Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President claimed, has served to distort traditional rhythms of "normality" -"our national search for internal peace and stability." Gresham's law, he said, "seems to be operating in the network news. Bad news drives out good. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins...
...Vietnam, sponsors of the march, issued a position paper today reaffirming the group's intention to keep the march nonviolent. The statement called for an immediate cease-fire followed by removal of all troops and equipment from Vietnam. It expressed solidarity with Black Panther Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and the Chicago Eight...
Cuba is one of those, but he did not find life there congenial. Cleaver, however, refused to discuss his reasons for leaving Cuba and moving to Algeria, where he now lives with his wife and infant son. He said they are "very happy" in Algeria, where they are presumably still collecting royalties from Soul on Ice and his other writings. Cleaver says he is able to move virtually at will in Communist countries, using nothing but his California driver's license and an FBI wanted poster in lieu of a passport. He maintains that he is neither lonely...
Many black radicals have attacked the Panthers for allying themselves with white radical groups. One such critic is Stokely Carmichael, now in Guinea working for the restoration of Ghana's deposed dictator, Kwame Nkrumah. Cleaver dismissed Carmichael's argument, saying: "A revolutionary movement calls for unity. Capitalism thrives on the kind of divisions some people want to keep...
...Cleaver, there seems to be no way back to rational dissent. "Protests and demonstrations have exhausted themselves," he said. "The only response can be an escalation of violence itself. People who don't like that kind of talk go through long periods of reevaluation. But there's nothing to re-evaluate -except the choice of weapons...