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...situation where you have the First Amendment competing against itself." The A.C.L.U.'s position, as Reitman puts it, is that the coalition's member groups "have a perfectly legal right to express their views and to boycott," just as supporters of United Farm Workers Leader Cesar Chavez had a right to boycott California lettuce. The area of uncertainty, for the A.C.L.U. and for others, is that this particular boycott impinges uncertainly on the Constitution's guarantee of free speech...
...papers that he hopes will convince the Denver food stamp program of his need: a $319 overdue utility bill and a $97 overdue water bill. "Food is so high," he says, "I just can't stay ahead." Vigil is allotted $33 a month. Each month, Jose Chavez, 72, a retired sheepherder, is driven by his granddaughter three miles in order to collect his $10 in stamps. Says she: "It helps a little, just a little...
While one of the incidents, the death threat against Jackson, was made by a lone individual--Bernadette Chavez was arrested minutes after she placed the threatening note, in which she identified herself, on a University Police car--the other threats are still being investigated...
...problems without full employment." If Democratic Agenda truly represents "all progressive constituencies" the the left is seriously arthritic. Almost every spokesman at the rally was a veteran, most well past the zenith of their influence. Gloria Steinem called for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Cesar Chavez wants a boycott of Maggio brand carrots. And United Auto Workers president Douglas Fraser said his constituency was interested in a single issue--more jobs...
THERE ARE OTHER colorful leaders on the left. They confine their efforts, however, to a cause, not the cause. Steinem talks ERA, Chavez talks carrots. Consequently, parts of the liberal philosophy may do very well indeed--witness, for example, the increased attention recently paid gay rights--while the liberal movement as a unified whole, remains an academic proposition...