Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief organizer of the protest was Folk Singer Joan Baez, who sent a letter to 350 onetime activists and celebrities asking them to sign the ad. Among the 84 who did: Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, Allen Ginsberg, I.F. Stone, William Styron. Others, however, turned down Baez on the grounds that they suspected the accuracy of the reporting out of Viet Nam or that they still could not forgive the U.S. for its role in the war. Jane Fonda would not sign even after a personal appeal from Baez. William Kunstler, perennial attorney for underdog litigants reportedly explained his refusal...
...atonement in 1970, when he knelt before a memorial in the Warsaw ghetto to victims of Hitler's Holocaust. The Nazi issue arises periodically; the election two weeks ago of Christian Democrat Karl Carstens, a former Nazi Party member, as West Germany's new President provoked protest demonstrations by left-wing groups dressed in mock Nazi uniforms. It was clearly a milestone in national adjustment when the TV series Holocaust was shown throughout the country earlier this year. The series provoked no serious protest, as might have happened in the past. Instead, for the first time, national soul searching about...
...Unrest, protest, massacre...
Students already protesting the University's connection with South Africa jumped on the issue. Claiming that Engelhard had made his money by exploiting black South Africans, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the Black Students Association began to protest the proposed name of the library--just days before the celebrity-packed K-School dedication ceremony October 21. The administration was both surprises and embarrassed by the controversy. They were even more chagrined when 400 protestors turned up at the dedication and chanted throughout President Bok's speech because all-night negotiations had failed...
...nature of the controversy appeared to change after the initial protest. K-School students--many of them mid-career bureaucrats studying areas involving problem-solving--began to debate the controversy through meetings and discussions rather than protest. Their position had initially mirrored that of the undergraduate protesters. But to many students in the one-year MPA program, resolving the controversy within the year became a matter of pride. The K-School students went out of their way to negotiate the issue...