Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...march in Washington a week ago was called to protest U.S. policy--in Central America as well as South Africa. But while the march was reminiscent of protests staged against America's involvement in Vietnam, the comparison was superficial. What the press did was use easy labels from a hazy past to categorize something new and distinctive...
...November of 1983, the fall of my freshman year, I was one of a few dozen Harvard students who trekked to Washington on a cold, gray autumn weekend to protest U.S. intervention in Central America. There were about 30,000 of us at the demonstration, which to my inexperienced eyes seemed to be an endless crowd. But when we reached the Ellipse, the vast open spaces of the Mall made our numbers seem meager...
...Post article was most distressing, and not merely because it was in the Metro section next to a piece about cuts in real estate taxes in Arlington, Va. What rankled marchers was the epithet " '60s-Style Protest." The implication was clear. Aren't all those students with long hair and tie-dyed shirts just nostalgic for an era when drugs were cheap, sex was easy and it was cool to skip classes and shout slogans about our immoral government, parents and universities...
What happened on the Mall was a response to the regression over the last six years in the nation's government and the public's consciousness. It was a protest for peace with busloads of marchers arriving in Washington from all over the country to make their voices heard. Perhaps that was reminiscent of the '60s. But there the similarity stops...
Even the culture of protest has shifted from the folk music of the white middle class and the garb of the hippie left to the sounds and styles of the dispossessed. The emcee at this year's rally interspersed speakers with an angry rap. And while Peter, Paul and Mary performed before the march, the rally on the Capitol steps featured reggae and latin sounds...