Word: mobe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antiwar demonstrations were the creation of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, a conglomerate that includes pacifists, Trotskyites, clergymen, socialists of various stripes, Communists, radicals and non-ideologists who simply want out of the war. Though there is some overlap of leadership, the New Mobe is distinct from the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, a more moderate organization that began the M-day series last month and plans to continue them monthly as long as the U.S. remains in Viet Nam. The Moratorium leaders supported the New Mobe's marches, though the mass demonstrations in Washington...
They almost blew it at the Justice Department-the Mobe, not the militants. The militants had made certain promises and kept them. The Mobe should not have asked more. In the face of the overriding futility of any kind of protest in this country today it is important that everyone act, it is not important how they...
...crowd at several points seemed unwilling to take orders from the Mobe marshals who tried to stop the militantsfrom breaking windows. The line between left-liberal and radical students seemed very clear as the marshals stood in front of the Justice Department, giving the peace sign...
...Young, New Mobe project director, called Mitchell's statement "a lie" at a news conference. "Yesterday, thousands of people were gassed in Washington by this government, Yesterday, hundreds of people were killed in Vietnam by this government. Yesterday, villages were destroyed in Vietnam by this government." he said...
...line of Mobe marshals briefly ringed the base of the Justice Department building holding their fingers in the V-shape to try to stop the barrage. Police moved in from the east and fired two successive rounds of tear gas which drove about a quarter of the crowd back into the Mall to the south...