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Harvard has long had an arms-length relationship with the military. Military personnel have not lodged on campus since 1969, when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to expel the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) from campus in protest of the Vietnam...
True to Cambridge’s long-running opposition to the military—the city council voted unanimously in 2003 to express their opposition to a war in Iraq—several anti-war groups arrived on the scene to protest the Army...
Frank Pasquarello, a Cambridge Police Department spokesman, said that although the June 14 protest did not present the same logistical challenges as other recent protests, arrests at such events are sometimes necessary to keep the peace...
...Vietnam American Community of Massachusetts (VACM) organized a Boston protest in Copley Square, right outside the Westin Copley Hotel, where Prime Minister Khai delivered a lunchtime address sponsored by Liberty Mutual. Most of the protestors were waving the yellow and red South Vietnamese flag—which is now the official banner of Boston’s Vietnamese population. They chanted in both Vietnamese and English...
...them to join the resistance against the Americans. Many signed up, including one of Marwan's older brothers. Marwan joined the insurgency in April 2003 when U.S. soldiers fired on a crowd of demonstrators at a school, killing 12 and wounding many more. Marwan, who took part in the protest, escaped unharmed, but the event proved decisive. He says that a few days later, he and a few friends collected grenades and small arms from a military site abandoned by the Iraqi army and mounted an attack on a building occupied by U.S. soldiers. "They shot back but couldn...