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...question the educational value of such politicking. I arrived with my appropriate placard and screamed my position while inside. Rahman and his supporters screamed theirs. Our individual identities were subsumed in our flags and titles, leaving no room for a common ground or the search for one. What we witnessed, instead was a debate of hatred. I would argue that we learn very little from such screaming, that we merely reinforce established prejudices. A university should be a place for the free and open exchange of ideas: it should be an environment in which we can voice our opinions freely...
...people from all parts of West Germany poured into the Beuel section of Bonn, across the Rhine from the windowless conference chamber where Reagan was attending a summit meeting of the NATO countries. A widely distributed leaflet for the rally was strongly anti-American and anti-NATO; one placard read HEIL, RONALD REAGAN. But the mood of the crowd was as much pacifist as anti-Reagan, and unexpectedly relaxed. Said retired Dutch General M.H. von Meyenfeldt, who addressed the rally: "There are an awful lot of people out there who are here for the sun." Many speakers referred to Reagan...
...argument goes like this: every movie is propaganda. Every character is a walking placard-for capitalism or idealism or monogamy or the status quo. Every shot, by its placement and rhythm and duration, is one more Pavlovian command to the viewer. A narrative movie is usually successful to the extent that it obscures these facts, transforms the thesis into entertainment and the placards into persuasive semblances of human beings...
Meanwhile, police experts were analyzing copies of a photograph distributed by the Red Brigades showing Dozier with a bruise under his left eye and holding a placard inscribed with leftist slogans. It read, in part: "The crisis of capitalism generates an imperialist war. Only an anti-imperialist civil war can end the war." A communiqué, the second that authorities have received from Dozier's captors, and a separate 188-page document accompanied the photo. The rambling tract, titled "Strategic Directives December 1981," was the first discussion of the Red Brigades' new policy of violent confrontation with NATO...
...this will happen I do not know. This discussion began with the statement that the goal of changing American outlooks might well be impossible. But hope. For two reasons hope. The first is because true change is not going to come through other means: the envelope-stuffing, placard-carrying, doorbell-ringing, lever-pulling and influence-peddling will not alone, as the anti-war movement proved, accomplish true reform. So if there is to be hope, and there must always be, it will have to rest on something else. And hope also because there are examples, not only in the Black...