Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the so-called "New Left," I am dismayed and severely stunned by its failure to speak out against the Soviet bloc during the Czech crisis. Despite their loud and somewhat successful denunciation and protest against the Vietnamese war, the vast majority of the members of the Democratic left maintained a stony silence in the aftermath of the tragedy in Prague. A truly democratic left should bring its weight to bear equally against the wrongs of the right and the extreme left. Perhaps it is surprising to learn that the Soviet Union, which represents itself as free, can commit...
...Protest groups hope to muster at least 100,000 marchers outside the amphitheatre the night that the nominee is selected, and security arrangements are being prepared accordingly. The city's 11,500-man police force will be put on twelve-hour shifts during the week of the convention; 5,500 riot-trained members of the Illinois National Guard are being alerted for duty. The Guard has been given permission to bivouac troops in two parks near the hall and in five public high schools. Halsted Street, which runs along the east side of the amphitheatre, will be accessible only...
...gentle, uncomplaining people of Bikini did not protest the decision to take their atoll away from them, perhaps forever. When American officials told of great atomic explosions that would devastate their paradisal speck of coral, sand and palms, Bikini's Magistrate Juda took counsel. "If the U.S. Government needs to use our houses for the goodness of mankind," Juda decided, "then by the kindness of God we are willing...
Equally scandalized were France's three major labor unions, who are coordinating a protest and a possible retaliatory strike. The fired newsmen also got a cable of support from abroad, stating that "this repression constitutes a direct menace to freedom of information." The signers of the message: "The journalists of Radio Prague...
Tasteless Opulence. Nixon seems to be giving considerable weight to the kind of argument expressed by one Southern lady on the convention floor. She declared: "This is a protest year. We've got to get that protest." She did not mean Negroes or fractious students. The protesters that concern her are people "who are sick and tired of their money going out of their pockets to keep people sitting in front of TV sets...