VLVL "the Movement"

[Otto]

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Subject: Re: VLVL "the Movement"

>
> Coretta King, David Dellinger, Benjamin Spock and other matriarchs and
> patriarchs of the movement were there, along with newer personalities like
> Jane Fonda. Their audience was made up primarily of the instant army of
> the
> young, the mobile children who received basic protest training in the late
> '60s, who can travel light and fast for the peace movement and for their
> own
> enjoyment. Some 100,000 of them were there on the Ellipse just south of
> the White House.
> [...]
>
> http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9605/20/
>
> best
>

Dave Dellinger was one of the "conspirators" who had been sitting on the
bench next to Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden and others
for inciting the Chikago demonstrations.


"One of the few touches of originality was the display of the Yippie flag
(marijuana leaves against a red star on a background). If the rally had a
somewhat stale quality, it was not without significance. Despite the
frustrations of the peace movement, its troops are still willing to turn
out, to follow the script, to attempt to wear down its adversaries."

Otto