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...Hopefully people will have to stop and notice...and ask why are the bells ringing so much at such an odd time,” said Jonathan C. Page ’02, Memorial Church’s liaison member of the Harvard Square Clergy Association. Page said the action has symbolic importance. “We want to make it clear that churches have something to say about environmental awareness,” he said. “God does not want God’s creation destroyed. God does not like greenhouse gasses.” This message...
...house parties to continue their political involvement—Aniskoff said that 4,000 such parties were held this weekend. Nuni invited community organizers and volunteers from around the area, including several people from the grassroots initiative Cambridge-Somerville for Change, though few undergraduates attended. The conference broke into action groups to discuss issues ranging from “Rebuilding the Democratic Party” to “Student and Youth Organizing.” Though Nuni said the action groups did not develop concrete ideas as he had hoped they would, he said that the continued discussion...
...college, Browner became an aide in the Florida house of representatives, but left for Washington D.C. a few years later to work for Citizen Action, a grassroots organization that lobbies for a variety of issues, including the environment...
...Somalia is a textbook example of the theory of failed states. The idea, as encapsulated by the butterfly that flaps its wings and ends up causing a hurricane on the other side of the world, is that an action in one place, even an apparently insignificant one, can have deep ramifications around the globe. (See TIME's Top 10 news stories of the year...
...Thailand will suffer just as badly as it did back when the Democrats were last in power. That was during the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis when the party's inability to discipline unwieldy coalition members led to political paralysis and financial mayhem. Instead of taking decisive action to gird the economy, politicians seemed to spend more of their time squabbling with each other and cooking up corrupt deals that alienated the public. Now that Thailand will be governed by yet another unlikely coalition, no one wants a repeat of that painful period in Thai history...