Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previously been an unperson. The party has been far less gracious toward writers like Ladisla Mňaċko, author of the novel The Taste of Power. It took away Mňaċko's Czechoslovakian citizenship when he dared to go to Israel in protest against the government's pro-Arab policy in the recent Middle Eastern...
...letter of protest was much milder than most of the antiwar mail that enters the White House each week, but it had its own special kick. "Viet Cong terrorism is real," it said. "So are the innocent victims of U.S. bombing, strafing and shelling." It went on to describe the war in Viet Nam as "an overwhelming atrocity." What made the letter unusual was that it was signed by 49 members of the International Voluntary Service, a private Peace Corps-like organization whose 170 staffers in Viet Nam exemplify the best of the U.S.'s outgoing altruism (TIME, April...
...year-old nurses' aide picketed Holyoke Center for several hours yesterday afternoon to protest what she called Harvard's "slum-lord tactics" in the operation of her apartment building...
...protest proper was launched with an afternoon "Peace-in" at the public park, one mile from the Century Plaza Hotel. While the bands were playing protest and love songs, rumors spread that there was pro-war picketing in front of the hotel...
Just after the front of the line reached the hotel, the march stopped. Nobody knows quite why it did so. Police charge it was intentional, but the protest leaders say they wanted only to walk past the hotel. They claim the police narrowed the marching path from four lanes to two lanes at the corner just past the hotel, which caused congestion similar to that caused by a freeway's being narrowed to two driving lanes. Another factor could be that an enormous number of people who had been standing ten deep in front of the hotel waiting...