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NEWS & LETTERS, December 2001Free speech fight
Memphis, Tenn. - The University of Memphis made its stand on democracy crystal
clear a few weeks ago when it forbade students from passing out flyers in the
student cafeteria informing them of the Immokalee tomato pickers' boycott
against Taco Bell (See "Tomato pickers on Taco Bell boycott,"
November N&L).Before we were there ten minutes, the Aramark cafeteria manager told us we
had to leave. One student insisted that we had the constitutional right to be
there and he wouldn't leave. Two cops came and one told us: "On this
campus, you don't have any freedoms unless we give them to you." Of course this is just the beginning of our struggle. The next move is a
letter to the campus paper not only about the Taco Bell boycott, but our right
to free speech. When they threw us out, they guaranteed we would take the
struggle to a higher, more visible level. Students in support of Taco Bell workers |
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