Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does she or doesn't she know what MacBird is? Only her conscience knows for sure. Does it recognize the distinction between veracity and audacity? Between opportunity and opportunism? Between guts and gall? Between taste and twaddle? These critical distinctions can be blurred in print and in protest. But on a stage they stand out naked...
...coordinators of yesterday's protest apparently had not agreed whether or not to try to enter. One apparent leader, Steve Newman of PLP, urged 17 pickets in a VW microbus to try to get by the guards at the gate. They refused...
They did not try to approach the gate again and there were no other incidents during the 90 minute protest. Several policemen and a paddy wagon were on hand in case of trouble...
...Nosser, 67, a Lebanese-born immigrant who has the distinction of having had his house bombed by white racists and his small chain of dry-goods stores boycotted by Negroes. At week's end, Nosser, Police Chief J. T. Robinson and Sheriff Odell Anders appeared at a Negro protest rally and took part in a tableau the likes of which Mississippi had not seen before. Linking arms with Negro demonstrators, they sang We Shall Overcome...
...wails that came out of the Orient last month when Folk Singer Joan Baez, 26, was on a tour of Japan. And the noise was not just protest songs. Joan complained bitterly that the CIA had pressured her Japanese interpreter into censoring her public comments about Viet Nam and the Bomb. But when she returned to San Francisco and called a press conference, all Joan wanted to talk about was love and peace. Newsmen persisted: What about those dark tales of CIA meddling? "We don't have a shred of evidence," admitted Joan's manager. Then the alleged...