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Tag Archives: antiwar
April 16, 1970: The Birth of the Seattle Seven
The spring of 1970 was an intense time to be a radical in Seattle.
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November 30, 1917: Louise Olivereau
Anyone worried about recent leftist tendencies in Seattle city politics should study our city’s political history more closely. Let Jeff Stevens school you about the 1917 trial of Louise Olivereau.
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February 24, 1966: Hell No!
University of Washington graduate student Russel Wills was the first Seattle citizen to refuse military induction in protest against the Vietnam War. Jeff Stevens tells Wills’s tale here at RSR.
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November 6, 1970: The Seattle Seven
“Did you ever hear of the Seattle Seven? . . . That was me . . . and six other guys.”
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October 16, 1965: Mickey Mouse Fight Club
On the date in focus here, roughly 400 protesters turned out for Seattle’s first major local demonstration against the Vietnam War, and were greeted with rather feral heckling from right-wing counter-protesters. Jeff Stevens histories you mousely.
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May 5, 1970: The UW Freeway March
Whose freeway? Our freeway!
February 17, 1970: SLF vs. SPD
Enter the Seattle Liberation Front.
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January 17, 1970: Jerry Rubin Brings the Chicago Noise to Seattle
The Chicago Seven begat the Seattle Seven — and it all began with Jerry Rubin. Jeff Stevens histories you stridently.
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Radical Seattle Remembers 