Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sympathetically on the suffering of wounded American veterans. (Fonda, who is relentless, gave half of her acceptance speech in sign language "because there are 14 million deaf people in this country." New York Daily News Critic Rex Reed wrote bitchily that it "looked like an audition for The Miracle Worker. ") Jon Voight, who played opposite Fonda as a paraplegic vet, won the Best Actor award...
Viet Nam fragmented America into constituencies that even now identify themselves according to their war grievances. The veteran vs. draft resister issue can still stir anger. William Keegan, now 29, a steel-foundry worker in Churchill, Pa., served for a year in Viet Nam as a medic after being drafted. He says bitterly: "The real heroes seem to be the guys who ran away to Canada to dodge the draft. Where will the country be if we ever face a crisis again? We'll have a heck of a time getting people to fight, and other countries know this...
...were the people who built the movement, though, the people who opened the door and saw what was going on inside, however briefly, "Carl Offner, a former member of the Worker-Student Alliance said...
April 1969: A Ten Year Retrospective--Mike Ansara (see above); Ken Glazier, former president, Student/Faculty Advisory Committee; Skip Griffin, former president, Afro; Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government; Carl Offner, former member of SDS Worker-Student Alliance; and Frances Fox Piven, professor of Political Science, Boston University; ARCO forum, Kennedy School...
Organizing for the 80s--Mike Schippani, New England director, J.P. Stevens boycott; Ed James, director, Mass Fair Share; Jackie Ruff, president, Local 925 of the Women's Office Worker's Union, and Joe Schwartz, graduate student; Science Center...