Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broaden this popular support, Jackson's so-called Rainbow Coalition must ally with the mostly white-supported peace movement. Thompson said, and, in line with that objective, BLSA staged a peace vigil at last night's Democratic dinner at the Statehouse...
...newly built church shot up in V-for-victory signs. Encamped in a side chapel, beneath a red-and-white banner bearing the image of the Madonna, a dozen protesters proclaimed a fast; they would drink only spring water. Still other parishioners vowed to keep a daylong prayer vigil. The demonstration that unexpectedly erupted last week in the Church of St. Joseph the Worker, a parish in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus, recalled dozens of similar protests during the bitter days of martial law. But in one respect it was remarkably different: for the first time Poles gathered...
...over the country, other citizens, driven by deep-seated fear of the Reagan Administration and the damage it had wrought on America and the world, have shown similar reactions. Anyone who has passed by the White House in the past three years has undoubtedly witnessed a vigil of some sort on Pennsylvania Ave--one of those ragged collections of souls mourning the slaughter of their fellow men in some far-flung corner of the world. A man in Alabama made headlines last spring when he tried to set himself on fire to protest unemployment in America. Others have been more...
Despite recent peace feelers by Managua to Washington, most of the pro-Sandinista solidarity groups see little chance that U.S. policy will change. But the Yankees have no intention of going home. Says Witness for Peace Spokesman Dennis Marker: "We are prepared to continue our vigil until the U.S. ends its support of the contras...
...observes that "Destruction casts shadows that are always there," and she herself is "haunted by fragments of disjointed dreams in which [she] was endlessly pursued by [her] parents' weeping"; for Marianne has left her comfortable home in England to come on a hopeless search and then long vigil for Willie. And she proceeds wanted, like Hardy's Tess, from one to the other of Willie Quinton's old acquaintances, repeating the refrain "I am going to have Willie's baby," which resounds like a death knell across rural Ireland...