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...past civil disobedience has been used to protest government policies that tread on the most basic civil and political rights. In this case, the protesters used a coercive method to get wage negotiators to make concessions during a collective bargaining process. As with the sit-in last spring—although this event was not on nearly the same scale—there continues to be a disconnect between the magnitude of the issues at hand and the tactics that PSLM and the union employ...
...even a law professor—had traveled 45 minutes north of Cambridge, across the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border to take advantage of the Granite State’s lax firing range laws (which allow anyone to fire weapons on the range without background checks, waiting periods or even basic sobriety tests) and to enjoy a peaceful (and early) Sunday morning shooting the hell out of stationary targets...
...Sunken Garden Children’s Theater, a student-written and student-run production geared toward children. Hee also writes for the Harvard Current, works on the Junior Parents’ Weekend Committee and is involved with both the Institute of Politics and the community service group BASIC. And he is co-chair of the Mather House Council...
Contrast that with the so-called civil disobedience of which Ariel Z. Weisbard ’02-’03 writes in “Why Janitors Are Willing To Go To Jail” (Opinion, Feb 25). These janitors are not complaining of not having basic rights and freedoms; they are not protesting the injustice of being denied the right to vote or assemble or control their own fate. These janitors are protesting that their union’s negotiating team was not able to get them an additional $3 an hour pay raise in the midst...
...silver lining may be the fact that 67 percent of all respondents also believed the September 11 attacks were morally unjustified. Then again, 61 percent believed those attacks were not carried out by Arab groups. That suggests that while they may be in an astonishing state of denial, their basic inclination is to reject terrorism and extremism...