Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the nation, M-day observances are aimed at suspending business-as-usual in order to allow protest, debate and thought about the war. The Moratorium demonstrates a diversity and spread unknown in the earlier landmark protests against the war: the march on the Pentagon in October 1967, which inspired Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, and the bloody riots the following summer in Mayor Daley's Chicago. Each of those involved directly only a minority of the young and the radical intelligentsia, not anything resembling a cross-section of U.S. society...
...tolled some 40,000 times for the U.S. dead in Viet Nam. In the conservative city of Los Alamos, N. Mex., housewives agreed to block a bridge leading to local defense plants while carrying signs: HELP STOP THE WAR. Students from Gonzaga University and Whitworth College organized a march to the federal building in Spokane, Wash., where they would wear white armbands speckled with blood...
Motorists had been asked by Boston police to stay out of the downtown area after 1:30 p.m., and traffic was very light. It would have been virtually halted anyway, since the line of march stretched all the way from Mass. Ave. to the Common...
...campus-wide assembly at the University of Pennsylvania, called by the Provost of the University, was attended by 2500 students and faculty, who called for immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces in Vietnam. The assembly was followed by a march to the J.F.K. Plaza in downtown Philadelphia, where 50,000 gathered. Noam Chomsky was the principle speaker...
...Massachusetts, 300 welfare demonstrators, including Wade Rathke, the western Massachusetts organizer of the Welfare Rights Organization, sat in at the Springfield welfare office after an anti-war march. As the police moved demonstrators from the welfare office, youths threw bottles, bricks, and rocks at them...