Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seeger has often been accused of merely disseminating propaganda through his protest songs. He recalls one interview he had several years ago with a CRIMSON reporter, when "I admitted that folksinging was a means of propaganda. The next day I found myself in a headline, 'Seeger Says He Sings Propaganda Songs...
...Buddha attend a meeting alone without his ceremonial train of senior abbots and court officials. On hearing the news, the Dalai Lama's mother burst into tears. Thousands of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general and begged the consul to accompany them while they handed a protest petition to the Red Chinese. The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken from them. Hidden stores of arms were passed out to the furious populace. Khamba tribesmen with their rifles, swords and lean, savage dogs began...
They sat down in a corner trying to look modestly in-group. One of the leader-organizers asked if anyone had a Protest song he wanted to sing...
...that isn't a Protest song," one of the sweater set explained, trying to keep his eyes on her face...
...wrote this Protest song about Harvard," shouted one of the leaders. "Songs like it should be sung in every Harvard Club across the country...