The Unreported Resistance
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According to the introduction of Chapter 22, what did a writer for the New Republic warn his readers about in the early 1990s?
View answer and explanationWho were the 'Plowshares Eight' mentioned in the chapter?
View answer and explanationWhat 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'?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, what did the Winooski Forty-four do to protest a U.S. Senator's votes on the Nicaraguan contras?
View answer and explanationWhat was the outcome of the trial of Abbie Hoffman, Amy Carter, and others for blocking CIA recruiters at the University of Massachusetts?
View answer and explanationBy 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?
View answer and explanationWhat was the significance of the event commemorated by the 'Stonewall 25' march in Manhattan in 1994?
View answer and explanationWhat was the name of the program created by the activist group Food Not Bombs, for which Keith McHenry was arrested?
View answer and explanationWhat was the 'Vietnam syndrome' that plagued the Reagan and Bush administrations?
View answer and explanationIn the summer of 1990, 350 Native American representatives met in Quito, Ecuador, to mobilize against what?
View answer and explanationHow many copies of the book 'Rethinking Columbus' were sold in a few months, according to the chapter?
View answer and explanationWhat landmark piece of legislation was passed as a result of the organizing efforts of disabled people in the seventies and eighties?
View answer and explanationDuring the protest against the Seabrook nuclear power plant, how many people were arrested between 1977 and 1989?
View answer and explanationWhat was the primary reason for the demonstrations and civil disobedience at the Honeywell Corporation?
View answer and explanationWhat was the outcome of the 1990 United Parcel Service workers' strike?
View answer and explanationWhat was the central goal of the 'living wage' campaign on college campuses like Harvard?
View answer and explanationThe demonstrations in Seattle in 1999 were organized to protest the meeting of which organization?
View answer and explanationWhat was the charge against the activists in the 'Winooski Forty-four' case in Vermont?
View answer and explanationWhat was the significance of John Sweeney's presidency of the AFL-CIO, according to the chapter?
View answer and explanationAccording to a 1992 survey mentioned in the chapter, what percentage of American voters wanted a 50 percent cut in defense spending over five years?
View answer and explanationWhat was the stated purpose of the 'People’s Bi-Centennial' countercelebration in Boston?
View answer and explanationWho was Bill Breeden, the only person to be imprisoned as a result of the Iran-contra affair?
View answer and explanationWhat was the purpose of the 'Union Summer' program encouraged by AFL-CIO president John Sweeney?
View answer and explanationIn the 1999 Seattle protests, what remarkable set of alliances was noted by the author?
View answer and explanationWhat did Native Americans in Davis, California, resolve regarding the replicas of Columbus's ships in 1991?
View answer and explanationWho was Linda Stout, as described in Chapter 22?
View answer and explanationWhat was the result of the 1985 strike by 1700 cannery workers, mostly Mexican women, in Watsonville, California?
View answer and explanationIn 1999, what was the focus of the eight-hour work stoppage by the West Coast Longshoremen's Union?
View answer and explanationThe 1992 New York City Council approved the placement of a plaque near the Stock Exchange that portrayed a suicide and carried what label?
View answer and explanationWho was Ron Kovic, as described in the chapter's discussion of the Gulf War protests?
View answer and explanationWhat was the subject of the 1984 protest by the 'Winooski Forty-four' in Vermont?
View answer and explanationIn what year did thousands of people demonstrate against Honeywell Corporation's military contracts in Minneapolis, leading to over 1800 arrests between 1982 and 1988?
View answer and explanationWhat was the key argument used in the defense of Abbie Hoffman, Amy Carter, and others who blocked CIA recruiters, which led to their acquittal?
View answer and explanationWhat abnormal health issue among farmworkers in California aroused the Chicano community and led to a 35-day fast by Cesar Chavez in 1988?
View answer and explanationIn 1998, 7,000 people traveled to Fort Benning, Georgia, to protest what institution?
View answer and explanationWho was Charles Hutto, and what was his significance as described in the chapter?
View answer and explanationWhat was the purpose of the 'Rethinking Columbus' publication?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, what did the San Francisco Board of Supervisors do on the eve of the Gulf War?
View answer and explanationWhat was the stated aim of the newspaper 'Spare Change' published in Boston?
View answer and explanationWhat was the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1999 case regarding the bombing of Nagasaki?
View answer and explanationBy 1988, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, which had won a strike in Ohio, brought together thousands of farmworkers in which region?
View answer and explanationWhat was the significance of the 1998 protest at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia?
View answer and explanationWhen former CIA official John Stockwell left the agency, what did he do?
View answer and explanationWhat was the front-page headline of the Shreveport Journal regarding the impending Gulf War?
View answer and explanationWhat action did fourteen Marine Corps reservists take at Camp Lejeune to protest the Gulf War?
View answer and explanationWhat was the central argument of the counter-quincentennial movement regarding Christopher Columbus?
View answer and explanationWhat 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'?
View answer and explanationIn the 1990s, what was the focus of the 'living wage' campaign that spread to 150 college campuses?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, what did an ex-GI, mutilated by an American land mine, do to protest?
View answer and explanationIn 1991, what did UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) workers achieve after a 25-year struggle?
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