Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maximize public pressure to end the war by encouraging a broad cross-section of Americans to work against the war." It will expand by one day per month: is focused on ending the war with related issues (the draft, militarism, inflation) being brought in by participation on the local level; and encourages activities in which those unable to take the entire day off can participate. It calls its activities a "new polities" campaign-broad based participation, door-to-door canvassing, and small group contact...
...Advocates" developed from a series of six shows called "It's Up To You" which Fisher did for WGBH last spring. That show was a local version of "The Advocates" in which interested citizens, instead of trained lawyers, debated policy questions...
This new style of the polities of "total contestation" soon pushed its roots into French soil. In Fall. 1966, members of the Internationale Situationniste, dubbed "les enrages" by the press, shocked France by completely razing the local association of l'UNEF. Influenced more by the Surrealists and Nihilists than Marx or Mao, they succeeded through student indifference in being elected to the direction of l'UNEF. Their first and last official act was to declare the immediate dissolution of the association, burn all its files, and urinate on the crowd passing below the office while singing the International...
Federal pressure could go a long way toward forcing recalcitrant unions to accept minorities. One helpful step would be abolition of construction-union hiring halls, if not by agreement with employers then by legislative fiat. Through various covert devices of favoritism in the hiring halls, many local officials prevent Negroes and other outsiders from getting a fair share of work. Unions should be compelled to give up exclusive control over apprenticeship programs and standards, although it may be arguable whether industry or Government should take over. It is hardly an accident that in most industries where companies control hiring, training...
Today's demonstration has been organized by the Harvard-Rad cliffe members of a local radical organization which calls itself the November Action Committee (NAC). The goal of this group, one member said yesterday, is to coordinate radical students at area colleges and high schools in militant action against the "imperialist nature" of the U.S. government and the universities...