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BOND: Violence has not replaced nonviolence in the sense that all the people who believed in nonviolence have reversed themselves. There are still large numbers of people who will use nonviolence as a technique even though they may not think of it as such. A picket line around a grocery store is a nonviolent technique. It was good ten years ago; I think it will be good ten years from now. What has happened is that a new group of blacks has come along who are willing to be nonviolent, violent or both...
Yesterday M. I. T., Wellesley, Northeastern, Tufts, Brandeis, Lowell Tech, Simmons, and UMass voted along with Harvard to boycott classes. At Boston University 1500 students voted last night to strike and planned obstructive picket lines outside buildings where examinations are to be held today...
...Mass picket line in front of State House in Boston to demand immediate withdrawal of U. S. troops from Southeast Asia, and adoption of war referendum bill by State Legislature. Sponsored...
Even if they knew what should be done, the dissenters wouldn't know how to get their government to do it. Political channels are closed. Demonstrations are ludicrous, for few Israelis could seriously stand on a picket line-or seriously react to it-after they've fought in a war. (This attitude carries over to student-power issues, where problems are worked out quietly with a very cooperative faculty and a rather progressive federal administration...
Finally the miners fought back. In mid-February, 1969. Raleigh County miners walked out of their mines and vowed not to go back until a new law had been passed. The picket signs were simple: "No law, no work." Editorials condemned the miners: union spokesmen said the wild?a? strike was being led by "men who haven't mined coal in 20 years" and told the coal operators not to worry: "the boys'll be back on the job tomorrow." Tomorrow came and went and the boys stayed home, more of them every day, until the strike was statewide. Thousands...