Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Four hundred fifty American corporations have investments totaling at least $1.6 billion in South Africa, Patty Gordon, the first speaker at Saturday's rally, said. She denied that these corporations could offer any defense of their role in protecting South Africa's policies towards its black citizens...
...unidentified male speaker took the microphone, however, to argue that American investments in South Africa are "helping to keep the United States' economy strong." While the crowd tried to shout him down he said that "attacking American corporations is like attacking the United States itself...
...issue, environmental degradation has attracted countless student radicals. Now the honeymoon may be over. At the University of Michigan teach-in last week, dissident blacks insisted that ecology is a mere diversion from more pressing issues. "There are 50 bills in the legislature on environmental problems," said one black speaker, "but none on the rats in Detroit, Flint and Jackson." Viet Nam activists are beginning to suspect that the war is also being forgotten because of increasing emphasis on the environment. To refocus discontent on Viet Nam and racial problems, campus radicals are planning a counter teach-in on April...
...lift up my eyes to the hills, where shall I find help?" The "valley of the shadow of death," in the 23rd Psalm, becomes "a valley dark as death." Those who look for "vanity of vanities" in Ecclesiastes will find now only a vacuum: "Emptiness, emptiness, says the Speaker, emptiness, all is empty...
...speaker claimed that "the script has already been written" for the execution of Bobby Seale on a Connecticut murder charge. He said that whites had to join Panthers in resisting Seale's conviction to the point of making it clear that "we're going to get a few deans and businessmen" if Seale is executed. "It's coming down to the wire," the speaker said. "White America had better shit...