Unions speaking out on issues as contentious as Israel-Palestine is nothing new. They have a long history of staking international positions on everything from apartheid to the Vietnam War.
Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators raise their fists during a rally in New York on April 27, 1968.
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At least one positive came out of the racial protests during the Vietnam War era – the emergence of Black studies programs on college campuses.
Students erect ‘shantytowns’ at Johns Hopkins University in 1986 to call for divestment from South Africa.
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In the 1980s, university administrators called the police on anti-apartheid protesters, threatened to revoke their scholarships and ordered staff to demolish encampments.
Leaders of the radical American student group the Weathermen march in Chicago in October 1969.
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Student-led protests in response to US engagement in the Vietnam War mounted in the 1960s and led to a group called the Weather Underground that believed in direct confrontation with the state.
Protesters across the street from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.
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Almost 56 years to the day after the anti-war protests in 1968, New York City police evicted Columbia University students from an on-campus occupation.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.
A protester holds a placard with a photo of late US airman Aaron Bushnell, who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC.
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Former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger has died, aged 100. His legacy, including his involvement in the Vietnam war, is long, complicated and divisive.
The aftermath of U.S. bombs in Neak Luong, Cambodia, on Aug. 7, 1973.
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Bruce Petty woke editorial cartooning from a sleepy period telling fairly anodyne jokes and turned it into a mode of serious – if also often hilarious – satirical commentary on politics and society.
Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece was released in 1968.
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Historical research into the infrastructure of protest found that many Australians found ‘quieter’ ways to express their opposition to conflict.
The New York Times resumed publication of its series of articles based on the Pentagon Papers in its July 1, 1971, edition, after it was given the green light by the Supreme Court.
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The New York Times’ publication of the Pentagon Papers showed the paper was willing to jeopardize connections to other powerful institutions, including the government, to serve the public interest.