Word: protestors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peretz was an active protestor of the Vietnam War at a very early period, when, he recalls, he heard that President Kennedy was sending 15,000 troops to Vietnam. He sees a similarity between his involvement then and his strong pro-Israel commitment now. He says that on the "scale of history," his ideological preoccupation with the Middle East will prove to be justified. "I don't want to hide how important I think the Middle East situation is both for America and people of conscience," he says...
...will be the people who undertake this action? It will not be those who were in Washington last weekend. They are still for the most part unused to the role of protestor and will be wary of civil disobedience. The veterans will be there. They know what Vietnam really is. For the rest, the success of the action depends on the reaction of the college students who have been the backbone of the movement for years but who were so conspicuously absent from the march last weekend. If they choose to find excuses to stay away the action will...
...Over 200 protestor rallied in Government Center yesterday afternoon to denounce the indictment of 25 persons, mostly students, in connection with the shootings at Kent State last...
...demonstrators, who had begun moving voluntarily when the police entered, pushed back at the police who were now shoving them. Though the police did not use the clubs they carried, they grabbed at the coats and arms of demonstrators as they pushed them out the door. One protestor was dragged 20 feet by his hair...