Word: protests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fists, but much of the anecdota reconsiders a series of onetime celebrities, hacks and propagandists who have long since been swept into the dustbin of history -- with Hook handling the broom. He was performing those janitorial services at N.Y.U., when classes were shut down during a '60s antiwar protest. Hook was an early opponent of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam but characteristically went on teaching. At one session, he recalls, "three raucous S.D.S. students burst into the classroom, shouting 'Strike! Everyone out!' No one moved. I turned and shouted, 'I am placing you under a citizen's arrest,' not knowing...
...Shiite-Palestinian fighting began as about 500 Palestinian women were returning to the Bourj el-Barajneh shantytown from a protest at which they demanded an end to the siege of refugee campus by end to the siege of refugee campus by gunmen of the Shiite militia Amal...
...refer firstly to their statement, "restricting some of [Kent-Brown's] rights is an appropriate method of activism." I am continually amazed at the number of people who list as justification for their methods of protest the exact principle against which they are supposedly protesting. Perhaps the irony of their statement could be illustratred if the dissenters were reminded that the very target of their protest, the government of South Africa, is "restricting some" of the rights of its Black citizens, and that since 1917 the "activists" who took control of the Russian government have been "restricting some...
Finally, I refer to the statement, "Kent-Brown has an advantage in protecting his rights, the Harvard University police force. Activists have only their overwhelming desire to make the voices of their protest heard." The only rights that the H.U.P.D. are protecting are Kent-Brown's physical right to the free movement that the dissenters are so willing to "blockade," and his right not to be harmed by the "militant action" that they condone. If they feel that this is an "advantage," and eliminating that advantage means using a police force to "make the voices of protest heard," then...
...same time claim that no relevant infringement of freedom of movement is entailed, is neither logical nor acceptable in my judgement. Therefore, whatever the appropriate disposition of this incident based upon the events themselves, I hope that a clear rejection of this proposed addition to the right of protest emerges from the discussion...