Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days to vote on it. If not voted on, it automatically controling the press, fine government has a very vague and broad concept of national security, and under that law a thing like that letter to the President [Johnson] by you [100] student leaders [sent in December to protest the Vietnam war] would never be allowed to be printed unlses we were prepared to go to jail...
Against Apartheid. The unsolved problem for the churches is the precise way in which this economic power ought to be used as a moral lever in society. One kind of answer was recently suggested by the Protestant biweekly Christianity and Crisis. The magazine withdrew its deposit fund of slightly more than $10,000 from Manhattan's First National City Bank. The gesture of protest was taken because First National City is one of ten U.S. banks in a consortium that provides a $40 million revolving fund to the government of South Africa. In announcing the withdrawal, the editors conceded...
...church officials involved in the day-to-day handling of ecclesiastical funds, the issue appears far more complex. Many strongly suspect that grandstand gestures of protest may in the end do more harm than good. Says Mrs. Porter Brown, general secretary of the Methodist Church's Board of Missions, which spends $16.6 million a year to support churches abroad, including some in South Africa: "If we take our money out of First National City, whom do we give it to? Barclays? Lloyd's? They are involved in South Africa just as much as First National City...
During the spring months, however, a few people in Madison Park who wished to stay there, and who would soon become the nucleus of the Lower Roxbury Community Corporation, sought ways to protest the BRA's plans for the area...
...Boston vigil was part of a nation wide protest coordinated by Henry S. Kahn '64, a third year Harvard Medical student...