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As a peace activist, Davis was a protest coordinator when some 3,000 demonstrators clashed with police near the convention in Chicago.

A longtime peace activist, Davis was national director of the community organizing program for the anti-war Students for a Democratic Society and was a protest coordinator for the Chicago convention.

The protest was organised outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention Some 3,000 anti-war demonstrators clashed with police and National Guards  Because of TV coverage of convention, the following riots were widely viewed Davies was a longtime peace activist and national director of the community organizing program for the anti-war Students for a Democratic Society He died of lymphoma at his home in Colorado, aged 80, on Tuesday But Davis wife said his legacy goes well beyond his pacifist ...

Rennie Davis, Chicago Seven activist, dead at 80 By AP reporter article Activists Jerry Rubin (left), Abbie Hoffman (center), and Rennie Davis speak with the press during a recess in their trial. The three are facing charges for conspiring to start the riots that tore through Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention Expand CHICAGO - Rennie Davis, one of the " Chicago Seven" activists who was tried for organizing an anti-Vietnam War protest outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention ...

Rennie Davis, one of the "Chicago Seven" activists who was tried for organizing an anti-Vietnam War protest outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that turned violent, has died. He was 80.

Some 3,000 anti-war demonstrators clashed with police and Illinois National Guardsmen on Aug. 28, 1968, near the convention. Police clubbed demonstrators and conducted mass arrests. An investigative commission later described the clash as a “police riot.” Richard Schultz remembers exactly where he was on the evening of Aug. 28, 1968. Along with colleagues from the U.S. Attorney’s office, he was at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo, watching a riot stemming from the Democratic...

Rennie Davis, ‘Chicago Seven’ Antiwar Activist, Dies at 80 The trial arising from the “police riot” at the 1968 convention thrust him into the spotlight. He later became an unlikely spokesman for a teenage guru. Rennie Davis in August 1968 in Chicago. He was there as an organizer of protests at the Democratic National Convention and was later tried as a member of the Chicago Seven.Credit...Julian Wasser/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images Feb. 3, 2021 Rennie Davis, ...

When Mob Inciters Become Lions of the Left An Aaron Sorkin film celebrates the Chicago Seven for plotting an attack on a party convention. Wonder Land: The collapse of liberal elites under a leftist offensive has been in the making since the Summer of Love. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly By Helen Andrews Jan. 13, 2021 12:17 pm ET The Chicago Seven were countercultural heroes in the 1960s. They thumbed their noses through one of the country...

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Craig HudsonGetty Images My first encounter with Washingtons Hotel Harrington (est. 1914) came 40 years ago this coming January. The Boston Phoenix sent me down to D.C. to cover the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States. The "alternative press" being what it was—and, sadly, is no more—the Harrington was the perfect base camp, having fulfilled the Phoenixs only requirement for employee travel, to wit: it was the cheapest room they could find. So my photographer a...