Word: activists
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Harvard Real Estate (HRE) and the Harvard Planning Office are also examples of Harvard's paternalistic way of dealing with the community. HRE has always shunned tenant input into its major decisions, and they continue to ignore the activist Harvard Tenants Union. The Planning Office consistently excludes community members from the initial phases of all major building constructions and modifications. Instead, they ask for input only after the first set of plans have been drafted, thus giving community members a foregone conclusion which they can only modify in a minor...
King's wife, Joyce, four of his six children, and a five-month-old granddaughter joined the South Boston community activist on the platform as he marked the start of a national petition campaign against the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction bill, which he called "unconstitutional...
Community activist groups, like the Bank Street Area Neighborhood Association and the Harvard Square Defense Fund, say they have not yet formulated their positions on the bill...
...advisers includes a number of Filipino political figures who have chafed on the sidelines of power for years. Among them: former Senator Jovito Salonga, head of a left-of-center splinter party and one of the country's best lawyers, and Jose Diokno, another former Senator and human rights activist. Aquino can call on economic expertise from the disaffected Philippine business community. She and her advisers have also been cultivating relations with high- and medium-ranking members of the armed forces. The question of whether the military is loyal to Marcos or to the national constitution remains...
...fellow guerrillas call him Ka Victus--Ka being short for kasama, or comrade, in Tagalog. He is like many of the Filipinos who have joined the New People's Army in the past few years. An activist since his student days, Victus, 36, became disillusioned with the political system after losing an election for town councilor in 1980. Dressed in a yellow T shirt and sporting a mustache and small beard, he speaks earnestly about Philippine Communism. "In central Luzon, many Communists like me are not direct victims of Marcos," Victus acknowledges, "while in Mindanao, many join the party because...