Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worker is one of not quite making it, and a keen sense of diminished status. Some of it is portrayed, in crude and exaggerated form, in the much-acclaimed movie Joe. Certainly not all workers are as bigoted as Joe Curran, though his counterpart can be found on any picket line or at the wheel of many a New York City taxi. But his pleasures are real enough?whisky, the bowling alley, a gun collection?and so are his yearnings for a taste of life on the other side of the middle-class line. The blue collar worker wants...
...group will picket a different House dining room each night during dinner until next Friday. Monday morning the group will designate the first target of the boycott...
...prosecute all ex-students who appear on campus, but he added that anyone who trespassed to appear in an obstructive demonstration should be approached "through the intermediary of a court." But even at that, the University's case with respect to Ryan's alleged appearance at the May 8 picket line was at best incompetent and at worst dishonest. Harnett, the University's sole witness, could not even say that Ryan was in fact demonstrating. And given Harnett's ambivalence about what Ryan was doing at Harvard, one is tempted to conclude that the University had equally ambivalent motives...
...anyone who was at University Hall that morning, Harnett's testimony must seem nothing short of ludicrous. A picket line of at least 300 students blocked off that building in one of the loudest and most spirited protests Harvard has ever seen. As Rebecca Scott '71, a member of the Strike Steering Committee, testified at the trial, "It was clear that what was happening at University Hall was not just a bunch of people milling around, but an organized demonstration." And in addition to her testimony, two members of SDS testified that Ryan could not have been at the protest...
...political commitments, instead of adhering to the narrower criteria on which Harvard and Viola were determined to judge him. He did not attempt to exonerate himself in any strictly legal sense; he freely acknowledged that he was demonstrating on May 11, and his argument concerning the May 8 picket line was intended to demonstrate Harvard's motives in prosecuting him as well as his own innocence. And as long as he refused to speak in Viola's legal jargon, the clash between the judge and the defense was inevitable...