Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rather than create illusions about whom you ally with, you have to be very sharp," Sargent said. "When you issue statements that appeal to the lowest common denominator, you don't advance the struggle-groups such as these (the Moratorium and the SMC)-have killed the anti-war movement in the past; they see these demonstrations in themselves as solutions, and think it's enough to act only once every six months...
...return to the site of the bloody Democratic National Convention, five days of escalating action culminating in a disruption of the "Chicago 8" conspiracy trial. The eight, including Abbie Hoffman; Bobby Scale, national chairman of the Black Panthers; David Dellinger, national chairman of the Mobilization Committee to end the War; Tom Hayden, Rennie C. Davis, Jerry Rubin, John Froines, and Lee Weiner, are accused of conspiring to incite a riot during the Democratic convention...
...Vietnam Moratorium was conceived as an anti-war student moratorium last July-by three former McCarthy staffers: Sam Brown, national student coordinator for the McCarthy campaign; David Mixner, a former organizer of farm workers; and draft resister David Hawk. The idea of an escalating moratorium-one day in October, two in November, and so on "until there is a clear commitment to end U. S. involvement in Vietnam"-seems to have been accepted by most of the liberal establishment...
...more radical groups. WSA accuses it of selling out to the very imperialists which it must fight. And a spokesman for the November Action Committee, a coalition of groups planning a week of demonstrations in the Boston area, calls it "objectively ok, but not a way to end the war...
...Moratorium is a moratorium on "all business as usual," designed to appeal to more than just students. "What's significant is getting people out in the community," Richard Zorza 72, coordinator at Harvard, explained. "This is a broad anti-war movement. We'll be asking shops to close, and people to wear black armbands, or turn on the headlights in their cars. We're building a manpower source for community organizing...