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Upon arriving, the 40-person antiwar group clashed with an equally passionate throng of 15 Solomon Amendment supporters...
...seem to lack the ideological passion of antiapartheid or antiwar protests, but the new activist slogan on campuses is "Eat local." Students are rediscovering the political adage that you are what you eat. And colleges are voting with their palates--and their multimillion-dollar food budgets--against an ever more global agricultural industry in which produce travels, on average, 1,500 miles from farm to plate. Posters around the University of Portland campus proclaimed that BUYING LOCAL FOOD IS ONE WAY YOU CAN HELP STOP GLOBAL WARMING ... AIR AND WATER POLLUTION. A racier consciousness-raising stunt was staged at Brown...
...first sparked her interest in politics, long before she majored in political economy and social thought at UMass Amherst.This year, Decker has joined the mid-career program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.Although she remains a proponent of liberal causes ranging from the environment to the antiwar movement, Decker, an incumbent who is campaigning for her fourth term, dismisses accusations by challengers that the current council is outdated.“When you’re a challenger, you want to point out everything that’s wrong,” Decker says...
...Home Only those who have lost a loved one can appreciate what Cindy Sheehan, the American antiwar activist whose son was killed in Iraq, is going through [Aug. 22]. Nothing takes away the pain. The anguish a mother feels when she loses a child is different from the loss that surviving brothers and sisters feel. Sheehan has done her best for Casey, her soldier son; she did not fail him in any way. But I implore her to heed the plea of her other son Andy: to go back home because she is needed there to support her children...
...Klein said antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan and her group have "struck a chord, despite her naive politics and the ideology of some of her supporters." Perhaps in a year or two we will read in TIME about the "naive use of power and politics" by the Bush Administration. Richard Spotswood Chicago...