Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall of 1968, I helped Peace and Freedom canvass Cambridge for rent control. Most of the people just stared back blankly when I tried to tell them that their rents were too high and that their rooms- were dangerous...
...have to be patient; we'll have to be dedicated. A lot of us will give up, and all the while that we canvass or whatever, the killing in Asia is going to continue. As unappealing as the idea is, we'll have to go through the system. We've tried everything else. and maybe now we've found the answer...
About 750 students, from area colleges, met at M.I.T. last night to organize a Cambodia "teach-out" in the South End today. Students will canvass residents of the area, asking them to write to their Congressman, Rep. John McCormack (D-Mass...
...number of Law students plan to concentrate their efforts on the Senate, which, will consider amendments opposing the President's policy later this week or early next week. Others plan to organize telegram and letter campaigns, and perhaps to canvass...
...able to sustain long-term organizing against the war anywhere but on their own campuses. This has to do more than anything else with the seriousness of the organizing required to eliminate an evil that reaches to the root of the American power structure. Students were able to canvass with some success around anti-war referenda and moratoria, but those movements were innocuous and patently unsuccessful in stopping the Vietnam conflict. In their opposition to the war in Indochina, students must intensify the antigovernment, anti-administration drives on their own campuses to end war recruitment and research-and if necessary...