Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shutting down school or sanitation or transportation systems. Agricultural laborers agitate for the union rights and reasonable wages won long ago by other workers. The antidraft movement has already prompted serious proposals for a more equitable Selective Service process. And in every layer of society are irrational nodules of protest that oppose no crying injustice, espouse no central cause but the assertion of individuality-even if that means anarchy...
...contention. In the U.S., where power is widely diffused, serious dissatisfaction with policies, politicians or institutions can be resolved or at least ameliorated by democratic processes-despite the extremist assertion that "the system" is hopeless. Unlike French workers and students, most Americans with a cause can lodge their protest with the hope of inducing reasonable change by their numbers and their voices rather than by entirely rebuilding society or bringing down an elected government between elections...
...Bible. So it was not surprising that he got the first call for help after Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus in 1955, thereby launching the most protracted-and successful-nonviolent protest in American history...
Forty Abreast. The country's major labor unions opened the week with an illegal but half-successful one-day general strike. More than half a million Frenchmen-led by student militants who were joined by workers, teachers and opposition politicians-staged one of the largest protest marches in Paris history. Forty abreast, they paraded for five hours through midcity, singing the Communist Internationale and chanting such slogans as "De Gaulle resign" and "De Gaulle to the museum." No violence marred that procession; police stayed carefully away. But in provincial cities, cops and students fought battles with tear...
Unlike their counterparts in France, who boast a staunch ally in labor, West German students must usually go it alone in their stormy protests. But they keep at it just the same, and last week was no exception. At Frankfurt University, 200 members of the Socialist German Students' League barricaded university entrances, surrounded buildings with a tough, red-helmeted picket line and battled anyone who tried to enter classrooms. At Bonn University, 1,000 students boycotted lectures. At more than a dozen other West German universities and colleges, thousands more staged teach-ins and protest marches...