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Question 1

According to the introduction of Chapter 22, what did a writer for the New Republic warn his readers about in the early 1990s?

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Question 2

Who were the 'Plowshares Eight' mentioned in the chapter?

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Question 3

What was the estimated number of people who gathered in Central Park on June 12, 1982, for what the chapter calls 'the largest political demonstration in the history of the country'?

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Question 4

According to the chapter, what did the Winooski Forty-four do to protest a U.S. Senator's votes on the Nicaraguan contras?

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Question 5

What was the outcome of the trial of Abbie Hoffman, Amy Carter, and others for blocking CIA recruiters at the University of Massachusetts?

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Question 6

By 1991, how many Latino radio stations, twelve of them bilingual, had been established in the United States due to the efforts of Latino and Latina activists?

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Question 7

What was the significance of the event commemorated by the 'Stonewall 25' march in Manhattan in 1994?

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Question 8

What was the name of the program created by the activist group Food Not Bombs, for which Keith McHenry was arrested?

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Question 9

What was the 'Vietnam syndrome' that plagued the Reagan and Bush administrations?

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Question 10

In the summer of 1990, 350 Native American representatives met in Quito, Ecuador, to mobilize against what?

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Question 11

How many copies of the book 'Rethinking Columbus' were sold in a few months, according to the chapter?

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Question 12

What landmark piece of legislation was passed as a result of the organizing efforts of disabled people in the seventies and eighties?

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Question 13

During the protest against the Seabrook nuclear power plant, how many people were arrested between 1977 and 1989?

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Question 14

What was the primary reason for the demonstrations and civil disobedience at the Honeywell Corporation?

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Question 15

What was the outcome of the 1990 United Parcel Service workers' strike?

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Question 16

What was the central goal of the 'living wage' campaign on college campuses like Harvard?

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Question 17

The demonstrations in Seattle in 1999 were organized to protest the meeting of which organization?

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Question 18

What was the charge against the activists in the 'Winooski Forty-four' case in Vermont?

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Question 19

What was the significance of John Sweeney's presidency of the AFL-CIO, according to the chapter?

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Question 20

According to a 1992 survey mentioned in the chapter, what percentage of American voters wanted a 50 percent cut in defense spending over five years?

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Question 21

What was the stated purpose of the 'People’s Bi-Centennial' countercelebration in Boston?

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Question 22

Who was Bill Breeden, the only person to be imprisoned as a result of the Iran-contra affair?

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Question 23

What was the purpose of the 'Union Summer' program encouraged by AFL-CIO president John Sweeney?

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Question 24

In the 1999 Seattle protests, what remarkable set of alliances was noted by the author?

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Question 25

What did Native Americans in Davis, California, resolve regarding the replicas of Columbus's ships in 1991?

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Question 26

Who was Linda Stout, as described in Chapter 22?

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Question 27

What was the result of the 1985 strike by 1700 cannery workers, mostly Mexican women, in Watsonville, California?

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Question 28

In 1999, what was the focus of the eight-hour work stoppage by the West Coast Longshoremen's Union?

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Question 29

The 1992 New York City Council approved the placement of a plaque near the Stock Exchange that portrayed a suicide and carried what label?

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Question 30

Who was Ron Kovic, as described in the chapter's discussion of the Gulf War protests?

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Question 31

What was the subject of the 1984 protest by the 'Winooski Forty-four' in Vermont?

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Question 32

In what year did thousands of people demonstrate against Honeywell Corporation's military contracts in Minneapolis, leading to over 1800 arrests between 1982 and 1988?

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Question 33

What was the key argument used in the defense of Abbie Hoffman, Amy Carter, and others who blocked CIA recruiters, which led to their acquittal?

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Question 34

What abnormal health issue among farmworkers in California aroused the Chicano community and led to a 35-day fast by Cesar Chavez in 1988?

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Question 35

In 1998, 7,000 people traveled to Fort Benning, Georgia, to protest what institution?

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Question 36

Who was Charles Hutto, and what was his significance as described in the chapter?

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Question 37

What was the purpose of the 'Rethinking Columbus' publication?

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Question 38

According to the chapter, what did the San Francisco Board of Supervisors do on the eve of the Gulf War?

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Question 39

What was the stated aim of the newspaper 'Spare Change' published in Boston?

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Question 40

What was the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1999 case regarding the bombing of Nagasaki?

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Question 41

By 1988, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, which had won a strike in Ohio, brought together thousands of farmworkers in which region?

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Question 42

What was the significance of the 1998 protest at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia?

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Question 43

When former CIA official John Stockwell left the agency, what did he do?

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Question 44

What was the front-page headline of the Shreveport Journal regarding the impending Gulf War?

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Question 45

What action did fourteen Marine Corps reservists take at Camp Lejeune to protest the Gulf War?

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Question 46

What was the central argument of the counter-quincentennial movement regarding Christopher Columbus?

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Question 47

What did thousands of protesters do in Seattle in 1999 that was considered a 'dramatic attempt to bring to the American people... the facts of corporate domination'?

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Question 48

In the 1990s, what was the focus of the 'living wage' campaign that spread to 150 college campuses?

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Question 49

According to the chapter, what did an ex-GI, mutilated by an American land mine, do to protest?

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Question 50

In 1991, what did UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) workers achieve after a 25-year struggle?

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