Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone had been in Chicago last summer. They tried to surround the auditorium where the Democratic Convention was going on. They had little to lose. They were going to jail anyway, they said. One of the troops fired, and there was a riot. The black neighborhood exploded. That was Chicago. Everyone was in Chicago last summer. But now it is fall, and Chicago is gone...
...most important thing, according to Grizzard, is getting into a conversation with the people. The organizers represent the Government as an outside force that pushes the people around and represents the draft as a neighborhood problem which must be met by a united effort...
...have to let other people know what we're doing," says Grizzard, "and we also want to decentralize BDRG." In one week, BDRG spokesmen addressed the Dorchester Voice of Women, a teenage gang in Allston, students at Northeastern, and neighborhood groups in Providence, Waltham, and Bridgewater...
...most novel part of the BDRG's work, and a completely new concept in student anti-war movement, is community organizing around the draft. Grizzard and John Maher '60 have been organizing since October in two Cambridge working class areas, the neighborhood around the BDRG office and the area between Putnam Ave. and M.I.T. bordered by Mass. Ave. and the Charles...
...voters might invalidate their ballots by misspelling Lyndon or Baines, campaign tacticians are urging them simply to put down "President Johnson." Some 15,000 green-and-white PRESIDENT JOHNSON lapel pins and an equal number of WRITE IN PRESIDENT JOHNSON bumper stickers are being distributed, while about 2,000 neighborhood coordinators will personally hand out numbered "pledge cards" to the state's 87,500 registered Democrats and to many of its 113,000 independents...