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The new petition campaign would begin at the polls Nov. 7. 'We think we can collect the 10,000 signatures in one day,' Michael Walzer, CNCV co-chairman and associate professor of Government, said yesterday.
According to Section 37, an initiative petition is a document signed by at least eight per cent of the registered voters that requests the City Council to pass a "measure." A measure, in form, is defined as "an ordinance, resolution, order or vote." The test of legislatibility, whether the Council...
Anxious to avoid being tagged as extremists, Luce and the other I.V.S. protesters made sure that no newcomers from the New Left would sign their petition: all the signers were longtime (up to ten years) veterans of the Viet Nam scene. All felt that the American pacification effort, coupled with...
Early this month, CNCV and Vote on Vietnam submitted differently-worded petitions calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam. Each petition carried over 7000 signatures. Under Massachusetts statutes, initiative petitions signed by eight per-cent of a city's voters (3600 signatures for Cambridge) must be adopted by...
SDS made headlines last spring when Defense Secretary McNamara emerged from Quincy House to find some 800 demonstrators and onlookers blocking his way. Ultimately McNamara was forced to escape through the Leverett tunnel to the Central Kitchens. Harvard apologized officially for the incident, and so did a substantial part of...