Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bobby Seale contingent assembled on Beacon St. next to the Common at about 6:20 p.m., forming a line behind an Avis Rent-a-Truck mounted with loudspeakers. Banners and flags of the different groups on the march floated above the crowd, which grew larger as the marchers waited for people leaving the rally on the Common to clear the street in front of them: "FREE THE PANTHER 21-Youth against War and Fascism"; "Free Bobby Seale"; "Free all Political Prisoners"; "BRING THE BOYS HOME-Gay Liberation Front...
...march began about 6:35 p.m., when the street was finally clear. By this time the crowd had swelled to about 2,000. As the marchers began to move forward, the driver of the sound truck conferred with a lawyer from the Massachusetts Lawyers' Guild who wore a red arm-band marked "legal," and then told the marchers, "Keep together. We can free Bobby Seale. We can free Erika Huggins. We can resist. Keep together...
...group passed through Central Square, rocks flew through the windows of the Cambridgeport Saving Bank. A sound truck manned by march leaders again urged the demonstrators to "go all the way to Harvard Square-where the euemies...
...police charges drove most of the demonstrators onto Mt. Auburn St., where bystanders swelled the crowd to nearly 3000. Some protestors pried up bricks from the sidewalk and hurled rocks and pieces of brick at the police. Others attempted to barricade the street with a pickup truck...
...Mayor really dug the Festival, saying that we are all earth people, and suggested people get a flat bed truck full of musicians and people in costumes to ride through Cambridge neighborhoods during the next two or three days distributing posters and turning everybody on to the gathering this weekend. He said no permit would be necessary...