Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that in wrestling no one ever gets more than a few bruises, that the body slams, the flying drop kicks, and the overhead airplane spins are al carefully planned and rehearsed. But in the crowed at the chain match, even the dispassionate observers were eagerly subsumed into a seething mob wanting savagely to believe that the pain and blood were real...
Organized crime, says a Washington official, dominates the traditional porn industry, as well as massage parlors, topless bars and strip joints. Now it is a growing presence in porn films as well. Ironically, the Supreme Court's community-standards ruling in 1973 gave the mob its first foothold. Fearful of prosecution for interstate activities, many independent producers turned the risky business of distribution over to the Mafia. The mob also began pirating prints, then going to film producers and offering to take over future distribution and call off further piracy. The Mafia is in the business for the same reason...
Probably far more important than anything coming out of the recall campaign will be effect the libel suit and lawless mob will have on future coverage of Philadelphia and other cities' politics. If adversary relations stay tough, will there be future demonstrations and shutdowns by politicians' goon squads? Will papers feel free to satirize public officials if Rizzo wins his $6-million suit...
...police and trade unions as components. The nation's press, however, has a habit of sharing intimidation. And if Philadelphia's newspapers, out of fear of recriminations, start letting the chips fall in Rizzo's favor, it's possible that other politicians may also begin to prefer the mob to the letter to the editor...
This problem has become particularly acute in the past few years with the passage of repressive immigration legislation in Britain, France, and Switzerland, and with mob violence against Algerians in France. In some cases, trade unions have had limited success in attempts to organize the migrants, as in France, while elsewhere, unions have collaborated in racist practices, as in Switzerland. But nowhere has the labor movement been able to organize migrants as migrants, or to defend them effectively from administrative harrassment. To organize a multinational involvement in a national political setting is a difficult task and the European labor movement...