Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this message was all but obscured by press and political reaction to four sentences in the speech. As 50 protesters picketed outside the Waldorf with signs reading HELL, NO, WE WON'T GO! and tried to burn him in effigy, Westmoreland confessed that his troops "are dismayed, and so am I, by recent unpatriotic acts here at home." He pointed out that the enemy hopes to "win politically that which he cannot accomplish militarily." Noting that North Viet Nam is waging war both on the battlefield and on the propaganda front, he said that the enemy "does not understand...
...real spirit of SNCC is almost dead. Its only meaningful legacy is a sense of commitment that grew out of protest and action and that is slowly smothering under a too-demanding arrogance of anti-intellectualism. SNCC will never get to play the game of politics as it once thought it might. It has given up too much faith in the feast -- the system -- to find a seat at the table meaningful...
After ten months, he quite the State Department in protest against the war. By this time, he was already considering the possibilities for using the vast manpower resources available at colleges to build a local, political base...
Leaders of the protest then pushed a petition under the consulate door. The petition called on the military regime to safeguard the lives of all political prisoners, and to call an immediate election to return constitutional government to the country...
...protest leaders said they had no immediate plans for further demonstrations. They did, however, say that their organization "The ad hoc committee in Boston for Democracy in Greece" would be tied in with similar committees in New York, Chicago, and Berkeley. In the future, these groups may unite into a national committee, leaders said...