Word: protestors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Word apparently had been passed to the troops that the last charge by the group of demonstrators who rushed the Pentagon doors was sufficient reason for cracking down on the protestors. The Marshals began to push the MP's forward until they were pressed against the sitting demonstrators. Then they would tell an unfortunate protestor to move-an absurd request because the seated crowd was packed knee to knee. When he didn't move, they clubbed him and anyone who tried to hold onto him. Many of the demonstrators pleaded with the soldiers to drag people out instead of clubbing...
...another incident, as the protestors were leaving the main building through the rotunda, a photographer from the Boston Record American threw a punch at a protestor after several students threw coats over his camera...
...panel headed by a Law School professor reported on the 1968 Columbia protests and blamed nearly every side involved. The committee chairman--Archibald Cox, professor of Law--and the other members said that the administration's "authoritarianism" antagonized students, that the police used "excessive force" in ousting protestor from buildings, and that the students who seized Columbia halls used indefensible disruptive tactics...
...smile crosses Rudenstine's face as he realizes that what an administrator considers "constructive" may not coincide with what a protestor considers "necessary." "I have to admit that the possibilities of dealing with the students are terrifying, as well as exciting," he says. "But my hope is stronger than the nightmares...
Right now things can be done, whatever the protestor's depth of feeling against the war: draft resistance, obstructionist demonstrations, planning a reception for Dow at Harvard, working for McCarthy, canvassing neighborhoods. The fast, according to its leaders, is meant to prepare the fasters to act. This focus is inappropriate and anachronistic...