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...John Kovacevich says that the UFW's position does not adequately represent the conditions of workers on his lands and that the activist rhetoric obscures the realities of grape farming...
...same time, "must do more" types in the activist circles of Harvard-Radcliffe have called for individual PBHA programs to compel volunteers to think harder about the deeper social problems at work in the communities they serve. They have decried what they see as a lack of deeper consideration in some programs, where volunteers teach, tutor, mentor and otherwise serve without concern for healing the wounds they bandage...
This debate--over whether to be activist--was ablaze in the PBHA Cabinet throughout the entire Vietnam war, but the range has been burning on low ever since. For the first time in more than a decade, it seems were cooking again, and it isn't just because grapes are back...
...larger one beyond it. Whether they teach a class of 5th graders, poster for a rally, find housing for a welfare recipient, or chain themselves to a statue in protest, I hope that they will act on behalf of others without necessarily feeling branded as liberal, conservative, activist, or anything they don't necessarily want...
This said, plenty of people should and will participate in public service or social action because they feel it helps them live up to their ideals, liberal or conservative, activist or otherwise. But there are good-hearted people voting for grapes and against them, and there are people who will both do service and be activists...