Word: posterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read a poster on the wall of the Bicycle Repair Collective, as it was called 19 years back in its hippy haven days: people then went to the Cambridge bike shop to learn from socialist/feminists how to fix their own bikes, or to have them repaired at reasonable cost...
While its poster of Karl Marx has come down, the shop is still run as a collective. Five member-workers own the store, and workers are paid hourly wages out of the money the collective takes in. "We're basically a worker's co-op," says Charles E. Sowers, an owner and member. "Everyone who owns the place works here and we each have one vote and equal say and share in the collective," he says...
AALARM tells us it is just trying to further the cause of rational discourse. But in a recent poster, AALARM cited questionable statistics to indicate that most Americans believed that non-heterosexual sex should be outlawed. One of the most basic assumptions of "rational discourse" is that you don't try to outlaw your opponents. It's that simple. AALARM claims they are being oppressed, and in the same breath they want to outlaw those with whom they disagree...
Finally, homosexuality is a complicated issue, and deserves more space than either a poster or an editorial can give it. But the idea that "the Jewish religion doesn't count in AALARM's religion and morality" is silly. The best-known prohibitions against sodomy in the Judeo-Christian tradition come in Leviticus...
...looked too good to be true. Posters advertising a speech by Frank Farian, "former producer of Milli Vanilli speaking on: Lip-Synching and the Law" dotted the campus this week. The poster looked like others announcing events at the Law School forum, so a Crimson reporter was dispatched to cover the auspicious event...