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...shift from protest focused on consensus issues like voting rights to protest focused on issues with less support, like the economic problems that were emerging as intractable plagues in Black America. Without a visible enemy and without the fire borrowed from the southern campuses at the start of the sit-in period, SNCC workers began to slack off, long-standing projects began to fade, and the "circle of trust" that once had banded together the organization's leadership began to crack...
Twenty-three protestors participated in the January 5 sit-in on the second floor of the McCormack Federal Building in Boston, which resulted in several violent confrontations with federal police. Charges against six of the activists were dropped...
Perhaps the most significant action of all was a sit-in staged by 5,000 of the 9,000 students at the University of Lodz, 40 miles southwest of Warsaw. Students were in the hazardous forefront of Poland's violent anti-Soviet demonstrations in 1968, but they had taken little part in the latest upheavals. Last week they mobilized, occupying academic buildings at Lodz and settling in for a siege with sleeping bags. Among their demands: fewer courses on Marxism, less emphasis on Russian-language instruction, and an end to restrictions on foreign travel...
...authorities there stymied. On the one hand, they have been unable to coax the occupiers out. On the other, they are equally unwilling to grant their main demand: negotiations toward legitimizing the farmers' union. The result is a standoff. Last week TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik visited the sit-in at Rzeszow. His report...
Students once used forms of protest like the sit-in to demand changes in a system they found reprehensible; today students use those forms to demand that they be allowed to participate in that system as effectively as possible. Let GUERRILLA and other students protest for longer library hours and the other little things that Harvard can do to make life easier for them; but let them do so only after they can say with truth that they have also protested about far worse problems that afflict people everywhere...