Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birth, and ordained ministers teaching in seminaries proclaiming the news that God is dead. On the theological right, evangelical preachers summon believers back to a strict Biblical orthodoxy; on the left, angry young activists insist that to be a Christian is to be a revolutionary, and propose to substitute picket lines for prayer...
...line between speech and action. "I believe, with Jefferson," he says, "that it is time enough for government to step in to regulate people when they do something, not when they say something." Recently, "many loose words have been spoken and written about an alleged First Amendment right to picket, demonstrate or march, usually accompanied by singing, shouting or loud praying, along the public streets, or in and around government-owned buildings, or in and around other people's property, including their homes, without the owners' consent. I do not believe that the First Amendment grants a constitutional...
...there is something worse than neglect of our public schools, it is the spectacle of teachers manning a picket line [March 8]. No matter how worthy are demands that educators be given professional status and their institutions increased respect and support, locking a child out of his classroom is an unconscionable act. The riddle of ends and means has become an old cliche, but its implicit moral dilemma is timeless and might serve well for teachers to ponder amid all that walking with lofty placards...
...strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...
...student-organized picket line will greet David Rockefeller '36 at 8 p.m. Sunday when he arrives at Dunster House to speak on "Corporations and the Ghetto." Rockefeller's appearance is being sponsored by the Dunster House Forum...