Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During this time, Lisa and two other antiwar activists had been speaking at local high schools about the war. One morning a high school in Tewksbury, the group was met by a host of policemen. Despite the protests of the 250-member student body, Lisa and her companions were told to leave. They refused, got roughed up and were carted off to jail. The group was referred to in the papers as the "Tewksbury Trio" at a time when similar number combinations were making headlines elsewhere...
...secretaries shocked management and turned the proposal down. Lisa, who said she did not feel she played any special role in encouraging the secretaries to nix the proposal, was out of her job within the week...
...Lisa moved on to her next job: clerical work at MIT's notorious I-labs, home of MIRU and other military research projects. Old friends at MIT knew of Lisa's radical activities and so Naval intelligence and FBI men at the I-labs were especially concerned about her. While working at the I-labs. Lisa took part in the 1969 November Action, an antiwar demonstration at MIT. She received a slashed eye, cracked spine and all the other radical medals of honor for her activities. After the November Action, Lisa was carefully "watched". "It was like a siege...
...time for a vacation and Lisa was given a week's leave from the I-labs. This is Lisa's idea of a vacation. A couple of her friends had decided to go to Nova Scotia where a strike of fisherman and cannery workers was beginning. The fishermen had had an orientation meeting and decided to set up a picket line. The next day, Lisa, three women, and a dog manned the picket line. Within an hour word spread like lightning through the town and women and children left their homes and joined the line. So did the Canadian Mounties...
...Lisa came back to Cambridge and severed ties officially with MIT and the I-labs. "They weren't particularly sad to see me go. I was the enemy in their midst," she said...