Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's activity seem likely to deflect the impending campus protests. Leaders of a combined peace movement claimed spreading support for their plans to stage a nationwide "Moratorium Day" on campuses Oct. 15 and follow it with a two-day demonstration in November, including a march on Washington of 45,000 people, each bearing the name of a war fatality. The organizers say that 400 colleges will participate in the Moratorium Day, with students boycotting classes to hold mass teach-ins, distribute antiwar leaflets in neighborhoods, turn in their draft cards. One peace leader, Dr. Benjamin Spock, dismissed...
...business is more than ever on the side of an early peace, as evidenced in part by Wall Street: new peace probes or rumors generally send stock prices jumping upward. Still, it is the campuses that offer the most vocal opposition and provide the broadest base for organized protest. The entire academic community seems as stirred as ever about the lingering combat. Last week University of Michigan President Robben Fleming personally launched a two-day campus teach-in at Ann Arbor with a sharp antiwar speech. Rutgers President Mason W. Gross, who also heads the American Council on Education, said...
...university groups in Chile. The project was soon widely characterized, not without a certain accuracy, as an espionage program designed to serve American imperialist policies in Latin America. The Dominican intervention of May 1965 cemented this feeling within Chile, and eventually the American Ambassador to Chile was moved to protest strongly to the State Department about what he felt to be the project's adverse effects on the U.S. position in the country. It was becoming apparent that if SORO itself was to be saved form the wrath of Defense Department officials who had doubted the value of social science...
...political futility of the action makes even more repulsive the pathological brutality with which it was carried out. In clearing the building, the occupiers repeatedly struck men who were leaving without protest. Most of these were struck from behind without warning and one man was kneed in the groin. then kicked and beaten as he lay immobile on the floor...
Released last week by Caedmon Records, the album-entitled "A Generation in Search of a Future" -contains the speech which Wald made at a symposium called by M. I. T. professors March 4 to protest increasing ties between science and the military...