Word: faneuil
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...Massachusetts People's Bicentennial Coalition will hold a "town meeting" at Faneuil Hall this morning at 11 a.m. to call for a restructuring of federal and state tax laws...
...noon Sunday, 1000 protesters jammed into Faneuil Hall to hear Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.) and libertarian Karl Hess call for Nixon's impeachment and attack his energy policy...
When the speech in Faneuil Hall ended an hour later, a Peoples' Bicentennial official got up on stage and shouted "to the docks," and the 400 demonstrators began the half-mile march to the Congress St. bridge at Boston Harbor to watch the tea party reenactment...
...OCCASION of the 100th anniversary of the Tea Party in 1873, a group of Boston's finest citizens, including Harvard President Josiah Quincy, gathered in Faneuil Hall to commemorate the deeds of the South End Mob. The organizers wanted to find some appropriate way to mark the occasion, so they came up with the idea of having a tea party of their own. After a series of patriotic speeches, including one by Frederick Douglass about women's suffrage, women went up and down the aisles of the hall and served the celebrants little cups...
...Josiah Quincy gang probably believed they were justly honoring the first Tea Party with their dainty little tea service. Violence was not mentioned in any of the speeches nor did any of the speakers refer to the oppression which led to the celebration. For the celebrants in Faneuil Hall the struggle was over and done with; all that was left was to sit back and enjoy...