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I have ceased to regard busing [Sept. 15] in this country as a racial issue.
Also I did not take the "union to task for 'feeding the racists' by failing to achieve complete solidarity in the strike." Rather I criticized the union leadership for policies--"neutrality" on busing and a one year delay of Phase 2--which serve the racists and threaten black-white unity...
Aside from a white students' boycott last Thursday, with attendance back up on Friday because of the weekend football game, these mothers' marches have been the only formal protests in Charlestown. And the cries of Pat Russell, president of Powder Keg, an anti-busing group, "Remember, a mother's power...
The people of Charlestown, who are intensely proud of and loyal to their community and resentful of the police presence, will be the deciding factor. Jimmy Breslin hints that those Irish-Americans will stick to the anti-busing fight for a long time, characteristic of their nature to doggedly support...
For the present, Charlestown protests do not seem to have much political awareness about them. In fact the most visible protests have been a series of Mother's Marches, in which women and girls often with babies in strollers, walk two by two chanting repeatedly the Lord's Prayer and...