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...through Cambridge's streets by candlelight, boycotting classes, and blocking the entrances to University Hall. But this year, after having anesthetized student discontent with the rhetoric of open letters and imposing progress reports of its review of corporate activity in South Africa, the Corporation for the first time faced dissent from within--from its Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...
...still in the process of being exhumed. To those who opposed him and the policies and mindset he represented, Nixon personified the banality of evil. He inspired a visceral contempt among students, who counted on him to supply a symbol of arrogance and decadence. The distaste was mutual. "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy," Nixon said, equating protest with murder, on the day four students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State...
...recommendation. We urge and expect that the same responsible political leadership that has separated Cambridge from Boston in their response to desegregation will continue. Part of the board's responsibility must of course be to prevent internal bickering and agree on one plan without angry or politically expedient dissent--the city government must begin desegregation united, or the chances of trouble will be greatly increased...
Last fall, driven by a common anger at senseless environmental destruction, potential hazard, and the corporate refusal to listen to dissent, the Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook (CDAS) called for the first occupation attempt on the site of the partially-built nuclear power station. Two thousand protesters arrived in rural New Hampshire, Oct. 6, 1979. The weekend, glorious in ways, should also have served as instruction in the tactics of protest. Three days of fence-cutting attempts failed utterly, mostly due to the density of state police and National Guardsmen...
...country. Their campaigns begin and end in handwashing; Pontius Pilate is their political theorist. Those of us foreigners who admire the American people for their characteristic qualities of good faith, generosity, and rule-breaking inventiveness must hope that this is not the end of the story. Far-reaching dissent must be combined with the development of a constructive strategy and vision. How else can the United States--or any other country--remain or become an experiment of value to humanity? Roberto Mangabeira Unger Professor...