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...long-standing problem for the activist community (not just here at Harvard, but all over the world) is our failure to embrace one another and to realize that "their" issues, are "our" issues, that those of us who feel strongly about trying to improve our society, and our world, are on the same side. Thus it is supremely logical that we should have had three groups work in solidarity at the rally on Tuesday, each of which shares an ideal vision of a world in which people live with safety, comfort, health and dignity. We are proud to share...
About 350 students joined three campus activist groups in the rally designed to protest Harvard's involvement in overseas sweatshops, to fight for higher wages for University employees and to urge the faculty to take a firmer stand on sexual assault...
...Early in yesterday's city council meeting, two Cambridge women were honored on the first day of Women's History Month. The first resolution, sponsored by Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, honored Suzanne R. Green, a long-time Cantabridgian, teacher, activist and current member of the Cambridge Historical Commission...
FACING EXTRADITION. IRA EINHORN, 58, '60s antiwar activist wanted for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend; in Bordeaux, France. An appeals court agreed to a longstanding request from the U.S. for extradition on condition that Einhorn not be subjected to the death penalty. His lawyers said they would appeal the ruling to a higher French court...
DIED. MARIUS SCHOON, below, right, 61, white South African antiapartheid activist; of lung cancer; in Johannesburg. Schoon was jailed for 12 years for a failed attempt in the '60s to bomb a police building. In 1984 his wife and daughter were killed by a mail bomb sent at the behest of a police official who later admitted to the crime. Said President Nelson Mandela: "He destroyed the myth that all Afrikaners were racists and oppressors...