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...hospital cafeteria, to which patients and visitors have access. At this time, Beth Israel's rules forbade the distribution of union literature in the cafeteria, although it allowed one-to-one union solicitation by employees of other employees during non-working hours in the cafeteria. The hospital did permit leaflet distribution in the employee locker rooms, which are sexually segregated and have room for only 600 of the 2000 employees...
Confronted by the Prince, Socialist Workers' Party Member Kim Gordon, a British Ghanian, explained that the demonstration was against police harassment. "Couldn't you come together and discuss it?" Charles asked. To the police at his elbow, he said, "What about it?" Before leaving, he accepted a protest leaflet and pleaded, "See if you can sort things out. You cannot go around like this." The intervention drew fire. "I don't care who he is," snapped the head of the police union. "He should not have said anything...
Many recall their days of party membership as the most exciting periods of their lives. "The world was all around you all the time, " says a psychologist in her mid-50s. "Every time I wrote a leaflet or marched on a picket line or went to a meeting I was remaking the world." Some had less ambitious goals. Says a California woman: "Of all the emotions I've known in life, nothing compares with the emotion of total comradeship I knew among the fruit pickers in the Thirties, nothing else has ever made me feel as alive, as coherent...
...tried to disrupt the Students for a Democratic Society at the height of the Viet Nam War by printing anti-SDS newsletters in the names of fictitious radical and right-wing groups and distributing them on college campuses. One leaflet circulated in 1967 showed the faces of four Princeton SDS leaders over sketches of monkeys' bodies, with the caption: "Princeton is not 'The Planet of the Apes...
...page leaflet distributed during the demonstration, the 16 law school organizations supporting the protest outlined specific grievances against the Burger Court ranging from restrictions on prisoners' rights to limitations on abortion...