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...course, what matters more than anything else is which of these groups actually shows up at the polls on Election Day. "Orthodox Catholics are really motivated," says Deal Hudson, a conservative Catholic activist who publishes the magazine Crisis and who is close to the White House. "There's huge energy at the grass roots against Kerry." Bush, too, has courted conservative Catholics (he paid his third visit to the Pope two weeks ago), who in recent years have largely buried their mistrust of evangelical protestants and fostered political alliances on such issues as abortion and gay marriage...
...clashes are an almost daily occurrence, with security forces claiming to have killed 24 rebels in a single week in early June. Also unchanged is the steady stream of reports of mysterious civilian killings like Ishak's. Human-rights workers blame both sides for such deaths, although as one activist in Aceh puts it, if "their atrocities are on par in terms of quality, the military wins in terms of quantity...
Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, who helped found the Harvard Social Forum, a group aimed at bringing together campus activist organizations, says that PSLM has not had a single meeting since first semester, and that there would have to be more “openness and commitment” next year if the group is to remain active...
...cause of union reform, however, has been picked up by the Harvard Social Forum as well, and as the activist coalition at Harvard becomes more diverse, PSLM and Socialist Alternative members alike expect an eruption of protest activity next year...
...Activist groups such as the No Layoffs Campaign have staged rallies and repeatedly pointed to the University’s $19.3-billion endowment as proof that the layoffs were unnecessary. HUCTW leaders were more sympathetic toward the administration, taking steps to adjust to changing financial priorities and restrictions on the endowment...