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...suit, filed by C. Pappas Co. Inc. and the Avenue Liquor Mart Inc. of Fresh Pond, charges that the United Farm Workers and the Harvard Boycott Support Committee have organized illegal picket lines in their attempts to enforce a nation- wide UFW-sponsored boycott of Gallo wines...
Nicholas Jones, a UFW workers, and Mary M. Lassen '75, a member of the Boycott Committee, are defendants in the suit both as individuals and as representatives of their organizations...
...Southern students played a large part in massive demonstrations which desegregated public facilities in Baton Rouge. In 1969, they mounted a huge demonstration and boycott to protest the lack of black-oriented courses and to call for the end of near-feudal administration of the Southern University system. Once more, in the fall of 1972, black students at Southern sought mass action towards justice and resistance. A chronology of events lends some clarity to the importance of the students' efforts...
...student-faculty council to give students a voice in the running of the university and the hiring or personnel. The president rejected the proposal and, consequently, 6,800 black students marched to the state capitol to see the governor. Two days later Students United held a two-day boycott of classes and 300 students, once again, converged on the president's office. In retaliation, the president closed down the Baton Rouge campus...
...what is really at stake here is the continued existence of free speech at this university. Leftist organizations at Harvard-Radcliffe have in past weeks been publicizing the fight of the United Farm Workers against the Gallo wine company; they have largely succeeded in enforcing a local boycott of Gallo products. The justice of their cause is not in question here; it is not relevant. What is, is that these efforts have not been obstructed; these groups have been free to publicize their cause. Now they are attempting to keep Gallo from making its side of the case known...