Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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silence, toward A triumphal chant only she can hear...
Blake warned Thomas Paine that the English police were going to arrest him for sedition in time for Paine to escape by boat to France. In the same tradition, Ginsberg braved clubs and mace to chant and speak at the Pentagon, Lincoln Park, and even in Judge Hoffman's Star Chamber...
None of the newspapers knew that he had been there, and most of the tenants did not even know who he was. Still, it's one thing for a poet to chant poems and songs before an appreciative audience of middle class radicals, and quite another kind of act to go before a group of black tenants...
...picketing in front of private residences. Marchers' legal protection probably applies to most privately owned thoroughfares that are used regularly by the public, such as the paths and parking lots of shopping centers. Peaceful participants can march as far as they like, stretch out the line of march, chant, and even subject pedestrians to minor inconveniences without being penalized. Pickets who remain standing instead of walking cannot be arrested for refusing to obey police orders to keep moving, unless the police have reason to believe that the demonstrators are blocking traffic or preventing pedestrians from normal movement...
...movie Getting Straight students chant "Action now," decide to strike "for students' rights" and carry signs which read "Legalize marijuana" and "Give 18 year olds the vote." They are merely working out their authority hang-ups against the agists, the squares, the older generation. Students demand more liberal parietals... like young Oliver Twist asking for more food. In Strawberry Statement one of the demands is that the university not expand so that the park (playground) will be preserved "for the kids." Just before the bust the students form concentric circles in the gymnasium and sing "Give Peace A Chance." Such...