Word: unjust
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With so many farmworkers voting against the UFW, it is clear that elections have been needed for the past decade. The fundamentally coercive boycotts have been an unjust and unfair organizing tactic with such a large portion of farmworkers opposed to the UFW, especially in the blacklisted crops. In fact, the overwhelming rejection of Chavez among these workers lays bare the insidious purpose of the boycotts for all to see. It is time for those who supported the boycotts to realize that the issue is more complex than they originally thought...
...more daring. He might have created, for example, a Merchant of Venice as envisioned by Leslie Fiedler, in whose view Shylock represents early Puritanism and the morality of accountability, and the rest of the Venetians are simply time-serving hedonists seeking the shortest route to pleasure no matter how unjust. Or Hamlin might have aimed for "historical accuracy" and had Shylock played, as George C. Scott played him a few years ago, as a contemptible buffoon. He chose for the middle way, and provided a viable, plausible interpretation that does not strain anything to the breaking point...
...seven AMREP officers and directors, including Chairman Irving Blum, 73, President Howard Friedman, 50, his brother Daniel, 40, and Chester Carity, 50, an AMREP executive vice president. In response, the indicted firm has launched a p.r. blitz protesting its innocence. AMREP officials complain that the charges are "immoral and unjust." They insist that they have spent more than $34 million improving the land...
...ironic that those highly principled young men who found it impossible to take part in an unjust war have no qualms about cheating on an agreement with their country-an agreement designed to facilitate their re-entry into American society - by jumping through the first loophole they can find...
Most reactions to the movie per se would be beside the point, because it demonstrates nothing about prostitution in general. Its story of good times in fancy bedrooms may be accurate for a few lucky hookers. But the unjust realities of the profession itself have been prostituted in order to sell the movie. It is in exactly this way that societies often abdicate responsibility for certain enslaved segments of the population, by deciding that these people are really happiest the way they are. This movie doesn't claim to present a serious statement about either the pros or the cons...