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Twelve people have been arrested on different days for trespassing at Deak Perera, among them local politicians, professors from MIT, Tufts and Brandeis, and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald, a Nobel laureate, IOP fellow William Sutherland, and Dominic M. Bozzotto, head of the union that represents the University's roughly 500 food service workers...
Johnson was also arrested with Wald, as were Boston city councilor Bruce R. Bolling (D-Roxbury), and Steve Louis, head of Local 509 of the Service Employees International Union...
...protestors marched outside the store, the four who were arrested went inside to ask the currency dealers to stop dealing in Kruggerands, South African gold coins. When the manager of the Deak-Perera store said he could not get authorization from the corporate headquarters to stop selling the coins, Wald and the three other protesters refused to leave the store...
...Wald, this is not the first time he has been arrested in an act of civil disobedience. He was previously arrested in the chamber of the House of Representatives during a protest against the Vietnam...
Although they received an offer to have the charges dropped, Wald and the other protestors arrested with him decided instead to take the case before a jury trial, Wald said...