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Despite repeated city rulings against Harvard,the University engaged in a four-year string ofdisputes that made the Craigie Arms a common sitefor tenant groups' picket lines. Finally, in Mayof 1985, the Cambridge Rent Control Board exemptedthe existing apartments from rent controlregulations, allowing Harvard to rehabilitate thebuilding and charge higher rents for the 50 newapartments...
...this is not like the Vietnam War protests. Now labor leaders, religious leaders, and student are all on the same side of the picket line--to stop the war before it begins...
...picket line outside the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan got an injection of star power last Monday morning. A band of network heavyweights, including Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Diane Sawyer, showed up to support striking members of the Writers Guild, who walked out two weeks ago over issues of job security. The featured speaker, however, was a less well known correspondent named Ike Pappas, whose current celebrity derives from the fact that he has just lost his job. "I feel very poorly for the people who have to get up every morning and pretend to work for CBS News...
Still, Coors has the right to make a fool of himself. Even at Harvard. Fortunately, the nearly 200 students and union workers who protested against Coors last Wednesday night did not try to deny him his right. They picketed outside the Science Center, making their case by chanting slogans and distributing informative literature. This "educational picket," as organizers called it, not only displayed a fundamental respect for Coors' right to speak, but also allowed the audience to ask more informed, penetrating questions...
...these strikers are still being unjustly treated and deserve more attention than just an occasional news story or editorial. A visit to these picket lines by a presidential candidate would do more than just lift morale...