Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the hippies were in full flower. In New York City, they brought their tambourines and guitars to the aid of dog owners protesting the leash laws in Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park, chanting "What is dog spelled backward?" Other New York hippies raised $2,100 for a bail fund to rescue "busted" (arrested) buddies. At California's Seal Beach, 2,500 devotees gathered for a sunny "love-in" that throbbed to the rhythm of trash-can drums and random flutes. In Dallas, 100 "flower children" gathered in Stone Place Mall, the public hippiedrome, to protest...
Since the McNamara incident, however, the tenor of protest has shifted. An increasing number of students--many of whom are not members of SDS, the University's leading New Left group--have resolved on an afirmative sort of protest. Last year, only a handful of Harvard students were involved in sit-in demonstrations at U.S. Army bases and a smaller number burned their draft cards. Now almost a quarter of the undergraduates have either signed "We Won't Go" pledges or requested the government to institute "conscientious objector" status on the basis of an individual's dissent from a specific...
...more numerous than outright draft resistors, believe that the current course of U.S. action promises nothing but a possibly interminable war and the change of a military conflict with the Chinese Communists. But they are unsure whether violating federal law is a suitable form of political protest, to say nothing of the heavy personal costs they might have to pay for the rest of their lives. The main contribution of this segment of Harvard dissenters has been the petition for a new form of conscientious objection...
...major forms of protest that have evolved this year, the summer organizing project is likely to have a far more extensive political effect that the draft resistance; it is much easier for the average student dissenter to speak against the war than to risk jail or permanent expatriation as the price of dissidence. Also, most of those who have pledged not to serve in this war have not limited themselves to this kind of protest--and will actively support Vietnam Summer...
...able to attract a surprisingly large number of members this year because of the dearth of any other serious anti-war groups in Cambridge, so too should Vietnam Summer serve the purpose of involving moderate and formerly reluctant students with more radical forms of anti-war political protest. It will happen even more if the project is unable to rally relatively uncommitted citizens against...