He protested for racial justice and against the war in Vietnam.
Her glorious soprano soared to us from record players and transistor radios, from folk clubs and grand concert halls, over the public address system at rallies against the war in Vietnam and now through the ear buds of our iPods.
In the early 1970s the marches and demonstrations against the War In Vietnam were made real and meaningful by the burning of draft cards, by the osmosis of war opponents, including newspapers like my own, The Boston Globe, which printed the tonnage of bombs dropped on Vietnam in the place of the weather.
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The word gained an airing across the world 40 years ago, at the first UN environment summit in Stockholm, when Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme levelled the charge against the US over its use of defoliant chemicals during the war in Vietnam.
His columns railed against the Vietnam War, Watergate, apartheid in South Africa and Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
The tenth anniversary of de Gaulle's rule in 1968 was marred by student riots and a general strike, ostensibly against the Vietnam war but which developed into a protest against authoritarian, centralist government in general.
He marched against the Vietnam war, summered at a student work camp in Cuba and trekked with Dhofari guerrillas, who were fighting the British-trained soldiers of the Sultan of Oman.
Kitt was blacklisted in the US in the late 1960s after speaking out against the Vietnam War at a White House function.
Fonda was a financial backer of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and spoke at the rally in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where Kerry made his first antiwar speech in September 1970.
And he was not predictable: In 1970 he stunned the Nixon White House by turning against the Vietnam War.
The war in Afghanistan, Bacevich said, reminded him of Vietnam and of how, in 1971, Kerry testified before this committee on behalf of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
He was outspoken against the Vietnam War, the hypocrisy of the church, and "righteous rockers" who cashed in on God.
Protest leaders in the US want to generate the kind of opposition that was expressed against the Vietnam War 30 years ago.
Upon his return home in the early 1970s, Kerry gained public recognition as the head of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War and for his anti-war testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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