Die-In

[Laurence Horn]

Barry Popik:

>    A look at the Sunday newspapers.
>
>...
>NEW YORK POST--Pg. 32:  "Antiwar demonstrators 'die-in' and other attempts to
>block Manhattan streets."  I found this term a little difficult to trace,
>with the two words being used so often together.  Adding the words "war" and
>"protest" still results in a lot of hits.  "Die-in" sounds like a new,
>awkward variant to me.

I don't know what the professional first-citers will come up with,
and I can't track it myself because my feeble resources don't
distinguish between "die-in" and the ubiquitous and irrelevant "die
in", but my impression is that this has been associated for some time
with ACT-UP and other demonstrations to protest insufficient funding
for AIDS research.  I can't recall whether there were "die-in"
demonstrations during the Vietnam War era.

Larry