Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same day, August 6, the International Days of Protest will be holding demonstrations all over the globe in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima, and in protest of the Vietnamese war. A num- ber of the New York demonstrators, including A.J.P. Musty, are expected to drive up to the meeting in Connecticut to listen to Senator Morse's address...
...time for honest whites to acknowledge that the concept of black power is necessary and long overdue. In New York, for example, despite a decade of peaceful civil rights protest, still another lost generation is growing up imprisoned behind ghetto walls. We cannot deny that white power is used every day to keep black New Yorkers in their place-in black jobs, black schoolrooms and black neighborhoods...
Wilson's most serious opposition seemed certain to come from the Labor Party's traditional power base, the trade unions. Frank Cousins, the chief of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,500,000 members), who only three weeks ago resigned from the Cabinet in protest against any official restraint on wages, vowed that he would support workers who were due for raises under previously agreed contracts. Other unions pledged to push for higher wages-freeze or no freeze...
Shoestring papers of the strident left are popping up like weeds across the U.S. Their editors, writers and subscribers represent a curious coalition of hipsters and beatniks, college students and teachers, political zealots and the just plain artsy-craftsy. Their subject matter is largely anti-Establishment protest: they are typically against the war in Viet Nam, against the draft and against the police. President Johnson is their favorite whipping boy, and it is unlikely that he could win them over even if he changed his initials from L.B.J...
Because of its punitive tone, the bill provoked a strong protest in Washington. Approving an otherwise routine merger between the California Canadian Bank of San Francisco, owned by Toronto's Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and the Northern California National Bank of San Mateo, of which Singer Bing Crosby is chairman, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. deplored "the apparent lack of reciprocal treatment" accorded U.S. banks in Canada...