Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kent-Brown was defending. We never considered using force to deny Kent-Brown's freedom to move wherever or whenever he wanted. Our intent was rather to form a symbolic blockade, supported by the audience, which would lead to Kent-Brown's exit through the lobby doors, after the speech...
...believed that as our action was accompanied by a clear statement of our peaceful intent to protest without shutting down the speech, the deans and police would be able to respond reasonably and commensurably to this statement of our intent by our appointed negotiator, after which the speech would continue with our group sitting in silent protest at the sides of the stage...
...planning the protest we envisioned two possible University responses. They could have heard our intent, negotiated, agreed to have Kent-Brown exit through the lobby doors, and then let the speech continue...
Alternatively, they could have removed or arrested the protesters in an orderly fashion and allowed the speech to continue. With either of these responses the University would have met its obligation to protect Kent-Brown's right to speak. Instead of acting calmly along either of these lines, the University forcibly broke through the protesters without any warning and whisked Kent-Brown from the room, forcing an end to the speech...
...construction of the shantytown last April, the university acted reasonably, taking the time to evaluate the intent and nature of the action, which led them to decide that it was in fact a legitimate exercise of free speech. We expected that they would again act reasonably, and believe that had they done so, they would again have found our action to be a legitimate expression of free speech which did not threaten the continued speech of Kent-Brown...