Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panthers have tangled increasingly with police in a dozen cities, and in most cases there is the characteristic dispute over who started it. Panthers contend that cops have regularly harassed and provoked them since the early days of the movement in Oakland. Law-enforcement officials in Washington point to Panther attacks on police in Jersey City, and to the New York indictment of 22 Panthers last April for plotting to kill policemen and dynamite police stations, stores and a railroad right-of-way. Blacks note angrily that 15 of the New York suspects are being held in lieu...
Five other members of the committee yesterday made similar statements or called attention to the panel's formal report, which says the group "weighed most heavily . . . the forceful interferference" with May's freedom of movement...
...gives up existence, there will be no relief from suffering nor any moral progress on this planet." She is smiling slightly, we hope, even though her tone is grim. But she is serious. Her anti-male attitude is a big facet of the Journal's version of the liberation movement...
Radical rhetoric shows up throughout the Journal, giving the impression to an uncareful reader that female liberation is just the female branch of the movement to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism. But these three women don't want just to change the political structure. They want to transform human (more than man's) nature, since they see men, regardless of class, as historical enemies to the "female principle." In "American Radicalism: A Diseased Product of a Diseased Society," Betsy Warrior severely criticizes the members of the movement for having, under an idealistic disguise, the same competitive mentality as other Americans...
...liberation group letters printed in Women, do blame society. Many of them believe that liberation is impossible under capitalism. (The next issue of Women will cover this topic.) Most of them adopt the usual radical line with a few differences: they want women's liberation to be an autonomous movement, since male-dominated organizations subordinate women's struggles (for new birth control and abortion laws and for day-care centers) to their own struggles...