Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occupiers had come to plant seeds and protect the marsh, to share music and back massages, and to befriend the police. But most of all they had come to protest and to act, to use their bodies as well as their minds to thwart the construction of the plant. They stayed until Sunday, when the police came out of their compound and carried them off to buses and then to jail. Yesterday 880 were still there...
Some Seabrook residents let demonstrators camp on their land the night before the protest. Many more lined the road along the march route, holding up "No Nuke" signs and cheering the demonstrators. Lobstermen ferried more than 100 occupiers in from the ocean onto the east side of the site...
University of California Sociologist Harry Edwards, the theorist and leader of the black athletic revolt that culminated in open protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, emphasizes blacks' limited access to other careers and describes the process that follows. He told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer: "With the channeling of black males disproportionately into sports, the outcome is the same as it would be at Berkeley if we taught and studied nothing but English. Suppose that everyone who got here arrived as a result of some ruthless recruitment process where everyone who couldn't write well was eliminated...
...evolution when it is dying as a cause and being born as an institution. The paper, once the voice of the radical fringe, has so flourished that a big commercial publisher wants to add it to his string of properties. The staffers have outlived their heady days of protest and dissent ("We were dangerous then," says one wistfully). They are coasting, but restlessly. The situation is a neat distillation of the moment in our cultural history when the 1960s turned into the 1970s?though the movie, in one of its few blunders, anomalously sets the action in the present...
...coordinating last weekend's occupation of the site of the proposed Seabrook, N.H. nuclear power plant. The incident-free demonstration provided an exemplary display of civil disobedience, as both the occupation and the march to the site remained orderly throughout the weekend. On the negative side however, the Seabrook protest underscored many of the problems encountered by involved citizens who attempt to express a specific grievance these days: excessive bureaucratic red tape that must be waded through to stage a demonstration of any size, broken promises made by the responsible authorities, and even outright deception...