Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the senior class at odds with the administration over the University's position on investments in South Africa will stage a non-disruptive protest at tomorrow's Commencement exercises, United Front organizers confirmed yesterday...
...group of about 25 seniors met on Monday night in the Quincy House Junior Common Room to discuss protest plans, including ideas on how to stage a moment of silence to express solidarity with the blacks of Southern Africa...
Neva Makgetla '78, an active member in this year's Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC), said yesterday that a recent canvas of seniors showed little support for disruption of Commencement activities, but widespread backing of a protest of some kind...
...still in its blatant flower, especially in Nicaragua. On the "invitation" of the recognized but wobbly government, the United States sent in the marines to help establish stability. The chief guerrilla leader was Agusto Sandino, who refused to yield to Yankee imperialism. Over in Boston, meetings were held to protest our foreign policy, and some of us went over to participate in the planning. I remember one committee meeting on Beacon Hill when some mighty stalwart and beautiful women heared their scorn on the Coolidge administration. One lady kept repeating "Poor Sandino, how he must suffer." The marines were finally...
...tenth anniversary of everything," as it was described, Richie Havens and Arlo Guthrie wailed protest songs. Daniel Ellsberg, Daniel Berrigan, Eugene McCarthy and Cesar Chavez spoke out against nuclear warfare. This blast from the past drew 10,000 people to the Hollywood Bowl for "Survival Sunday-a Festival for a Future," sponsored by 60 religious and political groups. Its aim? To support the United Nations' first special session on disarmament, which opened last week. Ellsberg said the meeting's goal was "to save the earth and everything that lives on it." Jesuit Priest Berrigan was not sanguine about...