Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discouraged but determined members of Tocsin met last night to ask whether their organization had a future...
Todd Gitlin, president of Tocsin, asked the group not to let disillusion over the Cuban blockade and the failure of the Hughes for Senate campaign weaken the organization. "Cuba showed us that we don't have much power," he said, "now we must start thinking about what practical things...
...peace group officers also agreed on the importance of the Cuba crisis. Hochschild felt Tocsin's reaction to the crisis was symptomatic of the group's change in orientation...
...pointed out that earlier statements to which Tocsin had subscribed emphasized specific issues such as testing and civil defense. A statement entitled "No Other Cubas" which many Tocsin members distributed during the crisis took a less specific long-term view of the situation. According to Hochschild. "It emphasized the bankruptcy of the U.S. attitude toward social revolution...
...Tocsin may still work for limited objectives such as appropriations for the Disarmament Agency through the Establishment," Gitlin said. "But the real pay-off, if there is to be one, must come from our program of community education...