Word: trespassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emancipation nostalgia is not an endearing sight. Last week, Representative Thomas Reed led 13 other black legislators in an attempt to scale the capitol dome and strike the rebel colors. Before a crowd of 2,000, some shouting "Nigger go home!," state troopers arrested the group for trespass. Later, the Alabama house, voting 67 to 17 along racial lines, defeated a measure to remove the flag...
...James novel, the descriptions of houses and landscape are so visually striking and can be as important as the interactions among the characters. Cinema is the perfect medium for bringing these descriptions to life. When theater attempts this, it is exceeding its boundaries. The cast and staff of Innocents trespass this boundary, perhaps innocently so, but the end result is only somewhat satisfying...
...actions of civil disobedience. In this specific instance the protesters were wrong, but that does not mean that all acts of civil disobedience are unjustifiable. If the goal is for the University to divest completely, then activists should choose forms of protest both more expedient and more justifiable than trespass or illegal restraint to accomplish...
...first time in as long as anyone can remember, University police locked the Yard up tight, prohibiting entry or exit. Police described the activists as "outsiders" and refused to allow them to "trespass...
...guess that's why others found it acceptable to trespass on private property last spring and stage a day-long sit-in that disrupted normal University business for the same reasons as those who committed a federal crime at Lowell House...