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However, Hatcher chose to get involved with Jackson's run for the presidency and was appointed chairman of the 1984 campaign. Since then, he has served as vice chairman of the Democratic party and helped to form the Black Caucus of the Democratic party. In short, he says, "I have been very involved in the effort to increase the presence of Blacks at all levels of the Democratic party...
What gives farmers this disproportionate influence? Although some candidates don't discover farm policy until the Iowa caucus season, the influence of farmers on the American political consciousness reaches far beyond that quadriennial event...
...they gather in their unconventional workshops and meetings--on everything from "CLS spirituality and nature" to "Sexuality, violence and male power"--the Crits decide what new directions CLS should take. While students bat around ideas for activism at a picnic caucus, professors--donning short sleeves and jeans like their pupils--debate how CLS can begin to construct and not just criticize...
...women's groups urged Michael Dukakis to put more effort into passing the bill. They also demanded that Bush drop his opposition to it. The Vice President is no doubt aware that 10 million more women than men will vote on Nov. 8. As National Women's Political Caucus Chair Irene Natividad warns, "No one can get elected without us, not to the Senate, not to the House and certainly not to the presidency...
...removed the dolls and mannequins. But the incidents raised questions in the U.S. about Japanese racial attitudes, questions that mirrored concerns raised two years ago, after former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone suggested that black and Hispanic Americans were lowering U.S. literacy and intelligence rates. In Washington the Congressional Black Caucus, which represents 23 lawmakers, last week urged Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to convene a meeting of Japanese executives to end "the negative stereotypic representations of black Americans once and for all." Declared Congressman Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat: "We're talking about a general racist attitude. They...