Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote came. It was 180 for a seizure on Monday, 140 for a seizure on Monday, 140 for a seizure right after the meeting, 60 for 'no action' and 40 for a nondisruptive student strike...
Graham, who had emerged as a leader in the Black community in the years preceding the strike, had spent her time fighting many of the same issues the students were protesting--the Vietnam war, Harvard's rapid expansion into the predominantly, Black Riverside neighborhood and the city's lack of a rent control...
...chaos of the student strike escalated on the Harvard campus, an underground journal with a mysterious pipeline to the administration's secret documents added fuel to the conflict with its own brand of news and commentary...
During the strike, the bi-weekly tabloid Old Mole began distributing daily "strike specials" every morning at 6 a.m. The special issues provided protesters with the day's schedule of events--or "struggles," as the Mole termed them--and served as a forum for discussing the divisive issues within the student movement...
...There was the question of how did we get the documents," says Jon Weiner, a graduate student and a writer for Old Mole during the strike. Weiner, who says he was one of the people who made the decision to publish the controversial document, explains that the official files were delivered anonymously to the Old Mole doorstep...