Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commenting on Tocsin's recent decision to extend its scope beyond disarmament, the two men agreed that the excitement and accomplishment of the civil-rights movement last summer had drawn many supporters from the peace groups. They disagreed, however, on the effect this will have on the peace movement...
...Tocsin wished to extend its scope to domestic issues related to peace, Riesman said, there are many more closely connected issues--such as civil defense--than civil rights. He suggested that present popularity of the rights movement might explain the decision...
...Tocsin will now explore such problems as segregation and unemployment, concentrating on their relation to the arms industry and to other economic and vested political interests that the group feels might shape foreign policy decisions. Action is now being planned in areas as different as American policy in Viet Nam and the unemployment crisis in Hasard...
...Study of the arms race inevitably led to study of its causes," noted Jennifer S. Gardner '64, Tocsin's president, explaining the organization's constitutional change. "As we got deeper into the complexities of disarmament we realized more and more that American foreign policy is inextricably linked to the domestic situation...
...past Tocsin operated on a basically elitist theory of political change," added John Ehrenreich '64, another Tocsin executive. "But arguing with state department officials has not been very effective. Basic changes in foreign policy and the arms race require something more on the level of the mass action that can come from cooperating with civil rights and labor groups...