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	Encyclopedia: March Against Fear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fear is their growth stock, and they use the dividends to make war.
		These are men and women who have known fear, true fear, the fear with the big teeth and roaring snarl that rips the skin from your body before reducing you to ash.
		The Meredith Mississippi March took its name from James Meredith, who became the first fl student to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962, after a ruling by federal courts that he could not be denied admission.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/March-Against-Fear (793 words)

	Venezuelans March Against Chavez
		Fear of more violence could damp participation in Wednesday's marches, which are being seen as a gauge of the opposition's strength following the failed coup.
		The opposition march was organized by the Venezuelan Workers' Confederation, the country's main labor federation, which is solidly anti-Chavez despite the president's pro-worker rhetoric.
		Across the city at a march organized by the pro-Chavez Bolivarian Workers' Force, government supporters celebrated the coup's failure.
	www.igc.org /globalag/pension/world/marchagainstchavez.htm (471 words)

	village voice > news > Streets of Rage by Tom Robbins & Jennifer Gonnerman
		There is one, however, he will never mention: that fear and hatred of his regime have managed to turn even ordinary Americans into full-fledged activists committed to his ouster, while at the same time regalvanizing a progressive movement in American politics that had sputtered along for years without clear direction.
		For Sunday's march she wore an Iraq Veterans Against the War T-shirt and brown camouflage shorts, with a fl armband that read, "Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home Now." On Friday night, she had shyly addressed the audience at a fundraising event in a hot and crowded Soho loft.
		Marching alongside Hoffman and Dougherty was Michael McPhearson, who spent 11 years in the Army, long enough to serve in the 1991 Gulf War, and to later have severe doubts about U.S. actions in Iraq.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0435/robbins.php (3875 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Civil Rights Movement
		Brewer, who had received death threats from a local Klan member, was assassinated on a Columbus street in 1956 by an unknown assailant, and the group he had founded to oppose white supremacy disbanded.
		During the ensuing decade, defenders of white supremacy powerfully interlinked their attack on fl insurgency with the more general fear of communism.
		In some of the most impoverished areas around Vine City in Atlanta, a group of SNCC workers sympathetic to Black Power separatism sought briefly to organize a project, in 1965, to empower the poor.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2716 (2277 words)

	PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History and Culture -- Chapters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In response to riots in Chicago, King led a march through the Cicero neighborhood, but it was not successful in garnering national support for the cause as Southern marches had been.
		Another march over the bridge was held soon thereafter, despite the continuation of the judge's decree against it.
		On the march in Mississippi, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. King engaged in a discussion over the use of the term "Black Power." Later, without provocation, the police fired teargas into the crowds.
	pbsvideodb.pbs.org /programs/all_chapters.asp?item_id=41761 (1002 words)

	TamilNet: 25.03.01 Eastern Tamils march against eviction
		One of the organisers of the protest march told TamilNet that they face imminent eviction from their homes and that all their appeals to the government have fallen on deaf years for more than five years.
		A Tamil politician who was associated with the march today charged that the eviction is an insidious pretext to further undermine the Tamils population in the eastern port town.
		The protest march, which commenced from Linganagar Murugan Kovilady, ended at Trincomalee Town Hall where a public meeting was held under the auspices of the Eelam Peoples' Democratic Party (EPDP).
	www.tamilnet.com /reports/2001/03/2501.html (716 words)

	James Meredith
		His complaint was rejected by a district court, but on appeal, the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court supported him and ruled against the district court stating that the University of Mississippi was indeed maintaining a policy of segregation in its admissions policy.
		In March 1966, he started his 'March Against Fear' from Memphis to Jackson to protest against racism - especially the violence many African-Americans faced when attempting to register to vote.
		However, his place on the march was taken by such figures in the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael who determined to finish the march on Meredith's behalf.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /james_meredith.htm (423 words)

	Ottawa Independent Media Center
		By the time the march reached its final destination at Parliament hill, the crowd swelled from about 8,000 to about 15,000, blanketing the large front lawn of the parliament with anti-bush banners, placards and slogans.
		Following the march, the PGA bloc lead a group of over 1,000 demonstrators to the hotel Chateau Laurier, where Bush is staying while in Ottawa.
		Fear not--we will not give up, and there are too many of us for even the mighty FBI to lock up.
	ottawa.indymedia.ca /en/2004/11/84.shtml (1755 words)

	King and the Black Freedom Struggle Chronology: 1965-1966
		James H. Meredith is shot and wounded one day after beginning his "March Against Fear," a march for voting rights, from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi.
		King, Floyd McKissick of CORE, and Stokely Carmichael of SNCC resume James Meredith’s "March Against Fear" from Memphis to Jackson after Meredith was shot and wounded near Memphis.
		The "March Against Fear" ends with a fifteen-thousand-person rally in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi where Stokely Carmichael stresses the need to "build a power base...
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/king-struggle/1965-1966.htm (1303 words)

	March Against Fear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		he March Against Fear began as an individual act by James Meredith to assert the right of all African Americans to move across the South unmolested.
		Meredith, the student who integrated Ole Miss in 1962, wanted to prove that he could conquer his own fear, and that of others, by walking safely from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss.
		Meredith also hoped to encourage locals along the way to take the physical and economic risks to register to vote and participate in the June primary.
	www.mecca.org /~crights/fear.html (84 words)

	Civil Rights Activist List for Undergraduates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Disappointed with the position/role of women in SNCC and the civil rights movement in general, she and Casery Hayden co-authored a short paper titled "Sex and Caste" which is said to spark the women's liberation movement.
		Fearing for his safety, Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent federal marshals to protect Meredith from threats of being lynched.
		He participated in the March on Washington (1963), the Selma to Montgomery March (1965) and the March Against Fear (1966).
	www.people.memphis.edu /~kenichls/CRMTermPaperActivistList.html (2877 words)

	Chronology, 1954-68 \| The Civil Rights Movement \| Abbeville Press
		King is arrested in Birmingham for violating an injunction against demonstrations.
		The March on Washington brings 200,000- 500,000 demonstrators together for the biggest protest assembly in the United States to date.
		King is assassinated by a white sniper on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
	www.abbeville.com /civilrights/chronology.asp (1323 words)

	Quarter-million march against war - [Sunday Herald]
		Organisers of the anti-war march, which crowded the streets of London and swamped Hyde Park yesterday with one of the largest mass demonstrations seen anywhere in Europe, couldn't quite believe the size of the protest they had gathered.
		In its early stages, police were caught ill-prepared and had to divert the march into two routes to cope with the sheer scale of protest.
		Near the head of the march, Mohammed Sarwar, Labour MP for Glasgow Govan, said over the noise of megaphones, whistles and chants: 'I'm here to join the many tens of thousands of people who are here to protest against this unjustifiable war.
	www.sundayherald.com /28090 (1373 words)

	African-Americans
		After the March, however, it became clear that many activists were disappointed and frustrated with the results of non-violent protests.
		One of the major criticisms was that the resulting legislation lacked "teeth." In order to pass civil rights bills through Congress despite the opposition of many senators and representatives who were either racists or at least represented racist constituents, the enforcement aspects had to be watered down and even eliminated.
		At James Meredith's "March against Fear" in the summer of 1966, the critical change of emphasis in the civil rights movement became clear.
	www.multied.com /sixty/Americans/africanamer.html (2095 words)

	HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things
		The March on Washington, August 28, 1963, was the largest civil rights demonstration in history.
		The "March for Jobs and Freedom" was conceived by A. Philip Randolf, leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, coordinated by Bayard Rustin, and supported by all the major civil rights groups, labor, and many churches.
		Protest marches such as the 1963 March on Washington and the 1966 Mississippi March Against Fear brought a response from the government to the demands of fl people in the form of a civil rights law, the Open Housing Act, the Voting Rights Act, and equal accommodations laws.
	historywired.si.edu /detail.cfm?ID=499 (387 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Hundreds of Thousands March against the War
		It was the first time in a decade that protest groups had a permit to march in front of the executive mansion, and, even though President Bush was not there, the setting seemed to electrify the crowd.
		Marching past the Treasury Building, Steven Olsen, 57, and his wife, Brenda, 49, of Yonkers, N.Y., held signs bearing a photo of their son, an Army Reserve sergeant sent to Iraq after enrolling in medical school.
		Brewer said she was particularly motivated to march in Walnut Creek, her hometown, because it's considered a more conservative city in the liberal region.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/092505Z.shtml (3135 words)

	Rally against fear
		More than 300 people attended the march, which was preceded by a rally on the steps of Old Main.
		The purpose of the march was to support women survivors of violence and to empower women and men to take charge in the fight against violence.
		After a circle was formed in Pollock and stories were told, the men at the march separated from the group to attend a discussion led by members of Womyn's Concerns.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1998/04/04-23-98tdc/04-23-98d01-017.asp (600 words)

	Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- What did you do?
		I demonstrated, marched, and was in most of the sit-ins that were held in our area.
		I participated in pickets, marches, sit-ins and other direct actions against housing segregation, job discrimination at Bank of American and Van de Kamps corporation, and school segregation.
		I participated in the Selma campaign and the March to Montgomery, the SCOPE summer project of 1965 (Crenshaw County, Alabama), voter registration, the Mississippi March against Fear in 1966, and the Grenada Mississippi movement.
	www.crmvet.org /faq/faqwhat.htm (2403 words)

	Millions march against attacks in Madrid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In every major city and town, residents paused for a 10-minute observance of silence at noon; in Madrid, spontaneous shrines of candles, flowers and hand-written messages sprouted at train stations where men, women and children lost their lives.
		In the evening in Madrid, an estimated 2 million Spaniards marched under a driving rain, through fountain-adorned plazas, up the wide Paseo de la Castellana boulevard, past the Prado Museum and to the steps of the Atocha train station, to demand an end to political violence.
		The mood of Spain yesterday ran the gamut of emotions: indignation, fear, stoicism, outrage, resolve.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04073/285319.stm (1389 words)

	The James Meredith March
		The Meredith Mississippi March took its name from James Meredith, who became the first fl student to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962, after a ruling by federal courts that he could not be denied admission.
		The Dept. of Justice later estimated that between 2,500 and 3,000 fl Mississippians were registered to vote during the march.
		Well guarded by the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the marchers were not attacked on their main route, but some were assaulted on the side trips.
	www.jofreeman.com /photos/meredith.html (494 words)

	WBAI, New York City - 99.5 FM - Peace Events Archive - March 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		March Against Fear, United for Peace and Justice.
		We are outraged that Bush and the US/British/Spanish military industrial complex are going against the world's demands for peace in its drive for oil, riches and control of the Middle East by the bombing of the Iraqi people which began yesterday, says Analiza Caballes, a rally organizer.
		And it is a war that opens the door to a series of preemptive and unilateral attacks against any Third World country that does not go along with the will of the Bush administration.
	www.wbai.org /community/peace_events/peace_events_03-03.php (1234 words)

	Rally Against Fear, by Justin Raimondo
		Resentment against this administration’s rush to war has been building in the country for months, and this weekend’s antiwar protest — Saturday in New York, Sunday in San Francisco — promises to be the largest and the loudest yet.
		Rabbi Michael Lerner, Hillary Clinton’s touchy-feely guru of "the politics of meaning" fame, is accusing the march organizers of anti-Semitism because, he claims, he has been "banned" from speaking.
		The attempt to limit the size and visibility of the New York City rally is a deliberate provocation, and one that is bound to end in violence and arrests.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/j021403.html (2274 words)

	05 Jun History: This Date
		It was during the March Against Fear that Carmichael, who was leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, first spoke publicly of "Black Power," which was his concept of militant African-American nationalism.
		On 21 March 1963, Colonel George Wigg, a Labour MP for Dudley, raised the issue in the House of Commons, inviting the member of government in question to affirm or deny the rumors of his improprieties.
		Rommel's greatest fear is that German air inferiority would prevent an adequate defense on the ground; it is his plan to meet the Allies on the coast-before the Allies have a chance to come ashore.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4jun/h4jun05.html (13631 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr. in Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
		He became president of Atlanta's NAACP, led voter-registration marches during the 1930s, and spearheaded a movement to equalize the salaries of fl public school teachers with those of their white counterparts.
		Demonstrators were finally able to obtain a court order allowing the march to take place, and on March 25 King addressed the arriving protestors from the steps of the capitol in Montgomery.
		He was stoned by angry whites in the suburb of Cicero when he led a march against racial discrimination in housing.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/additional_resources/articles/encyclo.htm (2068 words)

	Bookreporter.com -- Quote of the Day
		Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
		I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
		Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
	www.bookreporter.com /community/quote/05-03.asp (602 words)

	oD Today
		Its function, she suggests, is not to get information out of prisoners, it is to strike fear into the wider public and make us hesitate more than twice before questioning power.
		That is to say, people whose local attachments are weak and who live with the stress of debt, are those most likely to change their vote.
		Answer: those who live in fear are prone to be swung by fear.
	opendemocracy.typepad.com /wsf/2005/05/against_fear.html (613 words)

	Bergen Action Network
		The government aims to suppress protests against the war, against the cutbacks, against the layoffs in a blanket of fear.
		Join with the Bergen Peace & Justice Coalition on Thursday, March 13 at 4:00 PM as we protest at the local Congressional office of Representative Steve Rothman and urge the Congressman to sign-on to this important legislation.
		It is the aim of the Bergen Action Network to recognize and develop the vast potential inherent among the young towards the creation of a broad, grassroots, youth-based network capable of serving as an outlet for political expression and a catalyst for radical social change.
	www.bergenaction.net /archive_03_2003.html (1002 words)

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