Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ELENA HANGGI, president of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), is describing the protests--and the protestors--her organization led at last month's Republican convention in Dallas. Almost for gotten in a month's worth of Mondale glitches and media forums about Reagan and religion, and...
Chanting "Ronald Reagan He's No Good. Send Him Back To Hollywood," almost a thousand people camped out along Dallas' Trinity River to protest the Republican's policies. The protests organized by ACORN--a national group of neighborhood groups in poor areas--were not the only shows in town: the...
Perhaps the biases in the press are understandable. After all, at the Tent City the temperature was about 110 degrees all three days and dust settled over everything. Air conditioning at the Republican convention made the place pleasantly chilly--some delegates even protested that the hall was too cold. The...
The Tent City did not allow any alcohol in the area, to make sure the press did not sensationalize the protest as a bunch of drunken revelers. But the first Republican convention official I dealt with to get my press credentials was drinking a beer at 11 a.m. while a...
Though some labor leaders castigated him for the decision, Mulroney avoided heavy political damage by offering handsome severance packages to the workers. In 1983 he again campaigned for the post of party leader, but this time he crisscrossed the country by commercial plane and wooed delegates over coffee. His chief...