Word: alperovitz
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...Martin Luther King Jr. called for everyone to organize his neighbors against the war in Vietnam. Nor did it start later that Sunday afternoon at 43 Martin Street when King rang Frederick Wiseman's doorbell. Vietnam Summer began seven weeks ago with a telephone call to Gar Alperovitz, fellow of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics...
Vietnam Summer is Alperovitz's brainchild: a fact he will rarely acknowledge in private and never in public. But when King, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the controversial managing editor of Ramparts, Robert Scheer, got together for a press conference, the New York Times did not mention the 29-year-old peace organizer. Even if he did start the whole thing...
...Alperovitz and others from the Harvard faculty have formed a committee for this purpose. They plan to train groups across the country to organize their own communities and weld people opposed to the war into an independent, political bloc...
...Alperovitz's pamphlet details a three phase "prototype model" for community organizing. A group headed by Michael L. Walzer, associate professor of Government, is testing the model in North Cambridge...
Once they find people who oppose the war, Alperovitz said, the next phase will be the formation of "discussion-action" groups in the community to study the war. After studying, the discussion group members will be urged to speak to their neighbors about the war and undertake "basic political action...