Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wellesley economics professor and a National Labor Caucus member debated the economics implications of zero population growth last night...
...combat such views and to map strategy for a new political action, activists in the feminist movement met in Houston last week for the first National Women's Political Caucus convention. The event drew 1,400 delegates from 48 states-government officials, editors, legislators, blacks, Chicanas, young and old, housewives and students. They came in everything from boots to buckskin, from outsized overalls to a flowing Indian sari. They were searching for a common program toward common goals, but at times they lost their way in partisan disputes between Republicans and Democrats. At the end, though, the convention...
...thousands of women in this country who aren't here, who don't want to be here, who don't understand why they should be here. We need to help those women, to raise their sense of worth." The question was whether the members of the Caucus could reach those women in time to convince them that equal rights would mean an opportunity rather than a threat...
Shirley Chisholm underscored the delicacy of that difficult task. "Some people wrongly see the Caucus participants as being 'antimale, anti-children and anti-family,' " she cautioned. "Very frankly, there have been some excesses in movement thinking. Children are more than a pile of dirt and diapers; families have provided love. This Caucus should not be the cutting edge of the women's movement, but the big umbrella over...
...speakers were part of a forum series sponsored by the National Caucus of Labor Committees...