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Plum Sykes Saps Our Good Will Towards Striking Writers

In Gandhi's 1929 autobiography The Story of My Experiments in Truth, the founder of modern-day non-violent resistance wrote:
During the Satyagraha in South Africa I had altered my style of dress so as to make it more in keeping with that of the indentured labourers....I regarded the scarf and the cloak as too much of an incumbrance, so I shed them and invested in an eight-to-ten-annas Kashmiri cap. One dressed in that fashion was sure to pass muster as a poor man.
Nearly 80 years later, Vogue gal and screenwriter Plum Sykes isn't going to make the same mistake. More »