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Whole villages are sometimes complicit in the sale of their children. The procurers, says Sompop Jantraka, a Thai activist who has saved thousands of girls from being sold into brothels, might be the wives of village heads. Teachers know which children are vulnerable, and some alert procurers for a fee. Sompop has seen pickup trucks leaving schools full of girls sold to brothels in what is called the "green harvest." A police officer is often at the wheel. "This is a war," Sompop says, "a war for our children...
...politicized actions of BGLTSA prompted some members to form a non-activist, apolitical gay student group called Beyond Our Normal Differences (BOND) later that week. BOND was intended to be a social organization of which even closeted students could be a part...
...meeting at City Hall was attended by the five councilors who serve on the committee and City Manager Robert W. Healy. Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, who is not on the committee, also attended. Additionally, representatives of both Harvard and MIT joined a Cambridge neighborhood activist in observing the meeting...
...reference to the forgotten and beleaguered document, created in the wake of the 1969 University Hall takeover, that there just hasn’t been much reaction. There was, of course, the predictably hyperbolic comment of one member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the publicity-savvy activist group that masterminded last spring’s sit-in at Mass. Hall. And of course, some people’s knee-jerk reaction is to say that the dictum from Summers and his deans’ council is a poor one: oh, but now it’s going...
...larger error committed by nearly every anti-abortion activist is, however, that their arguments consider only the unborn fetus, without mention of the woman in whose womb it resides, as if she is no more than an incubator for this precious life. Indeed, “life” is the word used by every upstanding anti-abortion activist. But it is not life that’s at stake, it is the potential for life. The law, both in word and in spirit, rightly protects life itself and not the promise...