Word: protestors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here to celebrate how we can succeed in changing this institution, and if we can succeed in changing this institution, we can change the world," said Mary E. Summers '70, a 1969 protestor who was the main speaker...
...majority--which like the protestors does not take issue with these facts--accepts the bizarre argument that restricting the vice consul's movement was justified by the protestor's own right to express their opposition to him. They consider his freedom of movement to have remained intact because his legs were not prevented from taking him out the only unblockaded door. We find such reasoning illogical and dangerous...
...There are more activists this year but they are not the majority," says Brown History Professor and protestor William McLoughlin, who has been a political activist since the civil rights movement of the 1950's. Activism "never died down but it has picked up considerably," McLoughlin adds...
Equally reprehensible are Mr. Feinberg's attempts to portray Dallas as a police state. The city provided the protestors at "Tent City" with basic necessities--which, in my opinion, was more than enough. To suggest or imply that the city should have provided for the protestor's every need, want or comfort is ludicrous. Dallas had the responsibility to insure only that the protestors be given the opportunity to protest; the federal judge (a Democrat) was obviously correct in ruling that the city had no obligation to further subsidize the protestors. By providing basic necessities, the city of Dallas donated...
...Monday morning rally at the convention center was out of night of the delegates going in. Behind a grassy knoll, in back of large trees, surrounded by fences, and watched by police on horses, the ACORN rally seemed to take place in a cage. The only moment of police-protestor confrontation for ACORN members took place when they sidestepped a line of police with readied batons to reach the delegate entrance...