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...balanced as they report on the chaos around them. In 1969, he stood with Harvard’s radicals as they barricaded the doors to University Hall, snapping pictures as the students ransacked Faculty files. When then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 called in the police??whom Carlson describes as “looking like gladiators” as they came in at dawn carrying sledgehammers—Carlson witnessed classmates being beaten and went along with the conquered occupiers to jail...
...Radiohead’s “Karma Police?? plays in the background, the video warns that President Bush’s call for a Constitutional ban on gay marriage would “write hate into our Constitution...
...first amendment, the police and FBI or civilian authority.” For their part, protestors must recognize the politically self-defeating consequences of appearing militant—to oppose, in Hayden’s words, “not the police but the partisan use of the police?? which may emerge. Demonstrators and authorities alike had better recall the refrain of the students chanting in 1968, under the clubs of the Chicago police: “The whole world is watching...
Simply protesting injustice can at times sound a bit like the line from “Karma Police?? by Radiohead: “We’ve given all we can but we’re still on the payroll.” People protest greed and human rights violations while still wearing the clothes, buying the soft drinks and driving the cars that fuel the system they are protesting. International boycotts, the only real weapon against transnational corporations worth billions of dollars, may be the next step in keeping tabs on corporate abuses. Coke...
...should be standing up for these students. They were not even planning to be arrested. They were present as eyewitnesses to the unfolding of a social movement which has rocked the establishment since Seattle in 1999. They were there to explore the new mechanisms of power protected by the police??for example, closed ministerial decision-making meetings and new global rules that protest investors’ rights more than labor or the environment—that may constitute the architecture of government for the rest of their lives...