Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the speakers emphasized that draft resistance must be seen as a form of protest against the Vietnam...
...years "since Berkeley" (Fall, 1964), college campuses in many parts of the country have reportedly witnessed an unprecedented level of organized student protest over campus conditions. Many of the "issues" are old ones: food service, dress regulations, dormitory regulations, curriculum inflexibility, quality of teaching. Others may be new, such as the nature of rules regarding appearances on campus of controversial figures, alleged fraternity discrimination, degree of student participation in campus policy-making. During the academic year 1964-1965, more colleges were scenes of demonstrations about dormitory and other living group regulations and campus food service than about U.S. posture...
...happened mostly on campus; the Left has evolved mostly off-campus. Between the two developments, political activism has risen to greater heights on campus than in any earlier decade. But it is confrontation politics that has set the stage and given the volume of numbers to the protest. The Left has been associated with it but the totality of the approach has not been essentially Left, with its emphasis on ideology, organization, and activity throughout society. Nor has the Left supplied large numbers of participants. The Left has joined the "popular front" rather than created it. The issue-by-issue...
...style requires leaders in accord with it. It needs the charismatic speaker, the popular folk singer, the crusading star. Protest is also entertainment. A revolt is a "happening," important in its own right and repleat with emotion, even hysteria. Events should be escalated quickly-- piling grievance on grievance and "atrocity" on "atrocity," encouraging the authorities and the police to create martyrs, seeking emotional commitment. The enemy must be personalized and vilified. It is, among other things, a great existential experience...
...VIDA's first moves was to organize a march on city hall to protest the lack of bus service in one of Laredo's outlying barrios. Local people from the neighborhood were enthusiastic about the project, but apparently poverty program officials feared it might disturb their delicate relationship with City Hall. VIDA members report that, when the march was about to begin, rumors were circulated that the mayor would not receive the marchers, that some of the VIDA's were planning to make the demonstration violent, and that the neighborhood might lose a planned government housing project if the march...