Quicksilver Times, Volume 1, Number 3

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Underground counterculture newspaper featuring radical leftist political and social news and information. Articles in this edition describe coordinated national protests against Safeway over work conditions, pay, and food stamps; concern over abuses by police in urban communities; government response to a revolt by military personnel imprisoned at Fort Dix; protests organized for July of 1969 against President Nixon, the Vietnam War, and the trials of organizers of protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention; efforts by Howard University students to fight hunger and poverty in the rural South; conflicts between the Nixon administration and Peru over Peru's economic reform efforts; an index of advocacy groups in the D.C. metropolitan area; the Chicago Teamsters Union's requirement that scholarship recipients not to join the Students for a Democratic Society; the arrest of two Army privates for distributing a Fort Jackson GI independent newspaper; lack of compliance with consumer protection laws regulating car prices; how to handle phones tapped circa 1969; a review of the play \Boys in the Band\ staged at National Theatre; how to identify Marijuana plants in the wild and its type of cultivation; a listing of local music festivals and performers scheduled at Woodstock Music Festival; reviews of Van Morrison's album \Astral Weeks\; a calendar of events; and contact information for local services of interest to readers.Original version: print newspaper; DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Quicksilver Times

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