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...income housing, said tenant activism "isn't out in the street any more. It's grown more sophisticated, and it's at the ballot now." She said she agrees with rhetoric from the recent Cambridge Tenants' Union founding, that "an organization is as effective as its ability to disrupt the system." However, she said a movement that does not use legislative means would waste its energy...
Organizer Bill Cavellini called for tactics that would join rent strikes and picketing with more traditional political lobbying. "A legislative strategy is as effective as a group's ability to back it up--either with votes or with their ability to disrupt the system," he told the audience...
Students have challenged the legitimacy of the CRR from its inception in the fall of 1969 because it was used only against students involved in political protests. Moreover, the committee was only used against protesters sporadically, in attempts to intimidate and disrupt successful protest movements. The University ostensibly created the CRR to afford extra protection for cases involving rights of free speech, assembly and movement. In reality, it provided extra repression...
...marchers were attempting to disrupt Schmidt's procession from the Gothic-style Sterling Memorial Library to Woolsey Hall...
Other Harvard administration actions have also avoided confrontation and prevented escalation in the ongoing battle between the activists and the University. The strategy has been a good one, however, because the activists enjoy only the vaguest intellectual sympathy from the student body. Each time protesters take new steps to disrupt University life, they push themselves farther away from a politically apathetic student body...