Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student insurrection at Columbia this past week cannot be labelled a simple exercise in hoodlumism. The demonstrators succeeded in raising (and perhaps resolving) a major issue of University-community relations, and it is not at all clear that any amount of the peaceful placard carrying which critics of the protest advocate would have had this effect...
...used to preserve class structure within the University were paranoid and irrational. Second, the media told them that SDS was sabotaging Eugene McCarthy (the liberal activist candidate) in Wisconsin. Third, they saw the SDS demonstration that cost Boston University $500,000 in "bad" money us a misdirected, simply sensational protest which was neither practical nor sincere. If SDS really cared about slumlords, they asked, why did they wait until then to oppose them...
...West Germany, where there are 160,000 Greek workers. One of the speakers there was to be Andreas Papandreou, 49, the Harvard-educated son of old George, who was released from a junta prison last December and has gone into exile to organize a resistance movement. Though the protest movements among the Greek communities abroad are indeed unlikely to overthrow the junta, they nevertheless succeed in discouraging tourists to Greece and businessmen from investing there. In the long run, the ex-colonels may find those measures more difficult to deal with than with an outright armed uprising...
...punishment must come, Griswold said, simply because the law has been broken. "It is the essence of law that it binds all alike, irrespective of personal motive," he added. This is true whether the protester decides "to halt a troop train to protest the Viet Nam war" or "fire shots into a civil rights leader's home to protest integration...
...rancorous Memphis garbage strike that led to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. ended last week, but all was not peaceful. Negroes started picketing the two daily newspapers, the Commercial Appeal and the Press-Scimitar, in protest against their coverage of the strike. Handbills were distributed listing grievances against the papers. A boycott was mounted to prevent Negroes from buying the papers T placing ads in them. "They are racist papers," complained the strike's leader, the Rev. James Lawson. "They have attacked and vilified Martin Luther King. They have to share responsibility for his death...