Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most controversial components of the federal antipoverty package. In addition to financing local agencies like Action for Boston Community Development, Community Action funds have been used for community organizing among the poor -- building neighborhood associations that could effectively represent the demands of the poor and mobilize protest if the establishment refused to comply...
They represented a group of juniors who have written letters and held meetings during the past few weeks to protest Radcliffe's plans. Only 36 juniors, chosen by lottery last week, will live in their own apartments next year. A record 125 have applied...
...overwhelming Tory vote in a predominantly urban area of that size partially reflects a working-class protest against wage freezes and other austerity measures imposed by the Wilson government. Without doubt, the elections also gave many Laborites the chance to express their dissatisfaction without having to go so far as to turn Labor out of Parliament. But the fact that the To ries also won control of ten other local councils in last week's voting across the country showed that the shift was as much pro-Tory as it was antiLabor...
...feud began three weeks ago when Rose refused to lend his name to a protest sponsored by Governor Lurleen Wallace condemning a federal court order that Alabama desegregate all its public schools. But what really fired up the legislators was a student publication called Emphasis '67-Revolutions that included articles by Negro Militant Stokely Carmichael on 'Power and Racism," and by Communist Bettina Aptheker on the U.S. in Viet Nam. The pamphlet provided background for a student-sponsored symposium last month on world problems at which Dean Rusk was a main speaker...
Many of us writing this memorandum have not been specifically involved in the anti-war movement for some time. Our common criticism of it has been that it is too preoccupied with middle-class protest activity. This activity, while encouraging in some respects, has failed to educate and organize a powerful base even in its own constituency; much less has it established links with the working-class and low-income people who also object to the war. Many of us have been working through community and labor organizing and related activities to build a base among these people. We feel...