Activism begins...
My first actual concrete political activity took place in my senior (fourth and last) year at the University of California when I was 21 years old. Note in my previous posts how intensively the US secret political police pursued me even before I became politically active.
In early 1960, I joined a small picket line several times in front of the Woolworth store in downtown Berkeley - in sympathy with an anti-racist action that took place in the US South:
“On Feb. 1, 1960, four students from all-black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Woolworth five-and-dime with the intention of ordering lunch. But the manager of the Greensboro Woolworth had intentions of his own — to maintain the lunch counter's strict whites-only policy.” (NPR Feb. 1, 2008)
My next excursion into direct politics was to protest the coming of HUAC to the Bay Area:
“The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War (1945-91). Established in 1938, the committee wielded its subpoena power as a weapon and called citizens to testify in high-profile hearings before Congress. This intimidating atmosphere often produced dramatic but questionable revelations about Communists infiltrating American institutions and subversive actions by well-known citizens. HUAC’s controversial tactics contributed to the fear, distrust and repression that existed during the anticommunist hysteria of the 1950s.” (HUAC - Cold War - HISTORY.com)
“May 12, 1960 marked the beginning of a major protest of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in San Francisco. The committee had scheduled three days of hearings on May 12-14, as part of its regular pattern of public hearings around the country to investigate alleged local subversive activities. In this case, however, Frank Wilkinson and his Citizen Committee to Preserve American Freedoms planned a well-organized protest of the hearings. The result was a major confrontation.
“When protesters arrived at San Francisco City Hall on the first day, May 12th, most were not able to get into the hearing room at San Francisco City Hall because the committee had filled the room with its supporters, who had been given passes. The protesters began chanting “Let us in! Let us in!” Those protesters in the hearing room began singing the national anthem. The publicity brought even more protesters (some estimates said 3,500 people) to City Hall the next day, the 13th. Without warning, the San Francisco police turned fire hoses on the protesters in the rotunda. Some protesters were swept down the City Hall steps by the hoses; others were dragged down, bumping their heads on the steps.
“The violent confrontation is probably the most famous anti-HUAC protest in the entire history of the committee...” (Major Anti-HUAC Protest Begins in San Francisco; Police Brutality the Next Day, Today in Civil Rights History)
I joined the anti-HUAC picket line in San Francisco on Thursday, May 12. The next day, I had an important exam scheduled, which I thought would be foolhardy to miss. Thus, I missed the violent police action on May 13 (see above). I returned to the substantially larger picket line the next day around San Francisco City Hall.
I did not then meet the aforementioned Frank Wilkinson in 1960, but later he came to play a rather important – duplicitous and malevolent, but ultimately educational – role in my life.
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In the late summer of 1960 it was on to the University of Wisconsin Madison for me, where I had been accepted as a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry.
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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!
ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕНО!!
ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!
… и в Макспарке!
My first actual concrete political activity took place in my senior (fourth and last) year at the University of California when I was 21 years old. Note in my previous posts how intensively the US secret political police pursued me even before I became politically active.
In early 1960, I joined a small picket line several times in front of the Woolworth store in downtown Berkeley - in sympathy with an anti-racist action that took place in the US South:
“On Feb. 1, 1960, four students from all-black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Woolworth five-and-dime with the intention of ordering lunch. But the manager of the Greensboro Woolworth had intentions of his own — to maintain the lunch counter's strict whites-only policy.” (NPR Feb. 1, 2008)
My next excursion into direct politics was to protest the coming of HUAC to the Bay Area:
“The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War (1945-91). Established in 1938, the committee wielded its subpoena power as a weapon and called citizens to testify in high-profile hearings before Congress. This intimidating atmosphere often produced dramatic but questionable revelations about Communists infiltrating American institutions and subversive actions by well-known citizens. HUAC’s controversial tactics contributed to the fear, distrust and repression that existed during the anticommunist hysteria of the 1950s.” (HUAC - Cold War - HISTORY.com)
“May 12, 1960 marked the beginning of a major protest of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in San Francisco. The committee had scheduled three days of hearings on May 12-14, as part of its regular pattern of public hearings around the country to investigate alleged local subversive activities. In this case, however, Frank Wilkinson and his Citizen Committee to Preserve American Freedoms planned a well-organized protest of the hearings. The result was a major confrontation.
“When protesters arrived at San Francisco City Hall on the first day, May 12th, most were not able to get into the hearing room at San Francisco City Hall because the committee had filled the room with its supporters, who had been given passes. The protesters began chanting “Let us in! Let us in!” Those protesters in the hearing room began singing the national anthem. The publicity brought even more protesters (some estimates said 3,500 people) to City Hall the next day, the 13th. Without warning, the San Francisco police turned fire hoses on the protesters in the rotunda. Some protesters were swept down the City Hall steps by the hoses; others were dragged down, bumping their heads on the steps.
“The violent confrontation is probably the most famous anti-HUAC protest in the entire history of the committee...” (Major Anti-HUAC Protest Begins in San Francisco; Police Brutality the Next Day, Today in Civil Rights History)
I joined the anti-HUAC picket line in San Francisco on Thursday, May 12. The next day, I had an important exam scheduled, which I thought would be foolhardy to miss. Thus, I missed the violent police action on May 13 (see above). I returned to the substantially larger picket line the next day around San Francisco City Hall.
I did not then meet the aforementioned Frank Wilkinson in 1960, but later he came to play a rather important – duplicitous and malevolent, but ultimately educational – role in my life.
///////////////////////////////
In the late summer of 1960 it was on to the University of Wisconsin Madison for me, where I had been accepted as a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry.
/////////////////////////////////////////////
Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!
ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕНО!!
ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!
… и в Макспарке!