Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...march up the street until they are a few yards in front of the police; there is a three-minute pause on both sides; the police then advance and lob tear gas canisters; the demonstrators retreat (with cries of "Walk! Walk!"): the demonstrators gradually regroup; and then the whole process repeats itself. This exact sequence of events repeats over and over again until the sheer strength of the gas gradually drives everybody home. Few clubbing result; there are relatively few arrests; there is little radicalization of onlookers...
...wholesale window-breaking and looting of Wednesday made the night successful. Such activity does raise the price of imperialism and racism. Whether the price goes up for the right people, whether looting breeds repression, whether liberals are alienated in the process-these issues are now being debated over coffee. No matter. Those who are following the tactics of Wednesday night see their course as correct. (And can one blame them? Where have the years of marching gotten us? Who has a plan up his sleeve that he can guarantee will work better to keep Bobby Seale from being executed...
...windows and obstructions of traffic when that society's passivity sanctions a genocidal war in Southeast Asia. It is impossible to defer to principles of "law and order" that leave room for the cold-blooded murder of militant dissidents in their beds. It is unconscionable to respect a "democratic" process that is arranged and maneuvered by men whom no one elects...
...committee of six Business School faculty members, chaired by Robert N. Anthony, Ross Graham Walker Professor of Management Controls, was responsible for the selection process...
...defendants fully acknowledged that they had come to demonstrate in Chicago. They realized that they would commit a judicial offense and may even have expected to pay a penalty. As Froines said, "I didn't come to Chicago to save the electoral process; I came to tear it down...