"The labor federation, which represents more than 45,000 workers, voted Monday night to endorse work stoppages by union and nonunion workers nationally, Cavanaugh said."
"Mid-Lent is like punk rock — it was against the established order. We
still do it because it’s really cool that our grandparents did it."
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"Today, we don’t have to observe Lent, but they had to, and so Mid-Lent was
a form of resistance."
Said Nicolas Harvey, 39, a high school history teacher, ...
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