Word: nonviolenter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I had gotten to know some of the SDS people nationally. I got to know Tom Hayden. We had the back room at Cronin's. It began to seem to me that the issues were interrelated and something more had to be transformed. I got involved with the Civil Rights...
In another move aimed at quashing support for the uprising wherever they can find it, Israeli authorities arrested and served deportation orders on a prominent Palestinian activist, Mubarak Awad, 44, in Jerusalem. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Awad returned to his native city in 1985 to preach peaceful civil disobedience against...
As some waved the banned Palestine Liberation Organization flag, thousands of Israeli Arabs staged nonviolent Land Day demonstrations in sympathy with the Palestinians under occupation. The restrictions were lifted on Good Friday, but Israeli leaders did not withdraw their threats to quell the rioters. Declared Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We...
Among Vlok's targets were the United Democratic Front, the large antigovernment umbrella organization with more than 600 township affiliates claiming 2 million members nationwide; the Azanian People's Organization, an all-black radical group; the Detainees Parents' Support Committee; the Release Mandela Committee; and several youth and civic groups...
State Department Spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said in Washington the United States condemns "the forceful repression of peaceful demonstrators. By criminalizing and suppressing the exercise of basic political and human rights, the South African government is shutting off avenues for nonviolent change." Two American diplomats attended a service Tutu conducted at...