Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planted by the water, we shall not be moved." They placed coat hangers at the motel doors of the pro-life supporters, with signs reading NO MORE COAT HANGER ABORTIONS. They even tacked a "proclamation of religious liberty" onto the pillar of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral to protest what they consider the Roman Catholic Church's attempts to coerce all Americans into following the church's teachings against abortion...
...reach a point when you can't blame UFOs anymore, when the caveman comes out of the closet without Mars or Jesus, when the politically retrograde bare their fangs and call it a smile. Here's Lansing Lamont, who can dismiss the entire Sixties as "a media-orchestrated protest revel," call the return of protest to college campuses "ugly," and homosexuality a "problem to be surmounted." Lamont yearns for the days when Harvard and the "elite universities" were one big Final Club, enjoying "comfortable, if snobbish intimacy" and "benign" parietal rules, all blond hair and blue eyes and a sure...
...smiled the waiting policeman, "welcome to Shoreham." And then he arrested her, still smiles all around. The scene was repeated, with variations, hundreds of times that afternoon. Some of the protesters were grim, earnest in their belief that stopping Shoreham was a realistic possibility: "We can't let it open," said one, "I live near here." A protester explained to the officer who arrested her, "You don't understand that we're doing this for you, it's your kids that we're trying to protest." others said the protest was very nice and all that, but doubted it would...
While for the most part accepting SHAD's policy of nonviolent protest, some expressed impatience with the American anti-nuclear movement and waned that future protests might not be so peaceful. Many were new to the movement, joining after the Three Mile Island accident in March, and this was their first protest. They mixed with old vets, who wore buttons proclaiming earlier arrests at Seabrook, N.H., or Rocky Flats, Colorado. About half the protesters went limp to emphasize their non-cooperation...
Security for the protest cost LILCO an estimated $250,000, and the Suffolk Co. police $150,000 more; the expenses, naturally, would be passed on to ratepayers and taxpayers. The occupation attempt brought construct on, normally light on a Sunday, to a one-day halt, a short-lived moral victory. Proceedings for the arrested clogged District Court in Hauppauge for a week, and about half of the protesters have turned down an offer to have the charges dismissed in six months and instead opted to plead not guilty and demand a jury trial. Self-defense, they'll say, and repeat...