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...build a grassroots coalition to rival the New Right should not be afraid to adopt the language and symbolism of religion and patriotism. The flag has indeed flown over courthouses in the segregationist South and Marine bases in Vietnam. But it has also marched at the front of CIO picket lines and civil rights demonstrations. Jerry Falwell, like Father Coughlin, claims God's sanctions for his cause; but so did Martin Luther King and Dorothy Day. Poland's workers, builders of the most successful democratic mass movement in this century, struggle in the name of Polish nationalism and the Pope...
...Weintraub] was over out of the [picket] line and I put out my arm as an indication to stay in line. She pushed me, and of course, I couldn't have that, and I arrested her," said the arresting officer, Sgt. John Nieman...
Brooks and his group gather every other Friday night to picket the Sack Beacon Hill cinema, asking customers to boycott Sack theaters for that evening. Their grievance: Many of Boston's Sack theaters, which carry all the most popular first-run films, are inaccessible to people in wheelchairs, on braces, or otherwise disabled...
Gassama said the coalition decided to stage the picket outside Pound Hall, where the course will be taught, after deciding against disrupting the class. "We considered it, but we are taking measured responses," he explained...
Gassama predicted that more than a dozen and possibly more than 30 students would picket Wednesday morning...