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Jharad said however that "Revolutionary consciousness is on the rise, especially among minority workers." She cited the success of the UFW and Farah workers as evidence of this trend...
...tactic seems not only imaginative but a bit desperate. For nine months, the union has struck the Brookside, Ky., mine of Eastover Mining Co., which is owned by Duke Power, over health and safety standards. Success is crucial to U.M.W. efforts to sign up the mines of Harlan County-still known as "Bloody Harlan" because of the tear gas bombings, shootings and beatings during a U.M.W. organizing drive in the 1930s. The U.M.W. is convinced that Eastover will never settle unless the parent Duke Power insists that it do so. And Eastover needs to hold out only three more months...
...drink in. But, making it past that hour, it is possible to while away afternoons, evenings, nights, days, weeks and even months without going more than half a mile from the Square. Why anyone needs a guide to an activity as simple as drinking is unclear, but the success of the HSA bartending course and the healthy sale of wine books, drinking books, and tourist guide books prove that the people want--indeed, crave--instruction in how to make their own drinks, or failing that, where to find someone who can mix a passable concoction and guarantee the peace...
Afro was influential in the successful 1968-69 campaign to bring black studies and a black cultural center to Harvard. Afro's 1972 effort to force Harvard's divestiture of Gulf Oil holdings--marked by a takeover of Mass Hall--met with only limited success...
Jackson sees the huge success of The Harder They Come as a pivotal point, however, because it pleases people "who want pure entertainment" as well as people who want "substantial political content about third-world nations." Yet there are plenty of other films that manage the same combination. With more students realizing the importance of politics and life outside academia, theaters in Cambridge should soon begin to program adventurously once again