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...Star Market and other supermarkets nationally, to highlight the lack of clean drinking water, health insurance and basic sanitation in the agricultural camps. Many of the strawberry workers are Mexican migrants legally working within the United States. These workers deserve basic humane treatment, regardless of their occupation, nationality or citizenship status...
...been silent ever since. The group's web site, where updates on the situation and calls for reinforcements from other citizens of the Republic of Texas had been posted, was taken down Wednesday afternoon. Apparently responding to McLaren's call, seven heavily armed men carrying Republic of Texas citizenship cards were arrested Wednesday at a truck stop 70 miles from his Davis Mountain hideout. Charged with possession of marijuana, the men were also carrying five semi-automatic rifles, a shotgun, a .45-caliber pistol and several hunting knives. Local officials fear that more secessionists...
...been everything from a longshoreman to a film director and has played everyone from Thurgood Marshall to Simon of Cyrene, so SIDNEY POITIER's new role shouldn't be that much of a stretch. The actor has been named the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. Poitier has dual American-Bahamian citizenship (his parents were Bahamian tomato farmers who sold their produce in Florida, where he was born). The job does not come with an embassy in Tokyo, and Poitier will practice his diplomacy from the comfort of his own home. But he did pay a visit to Emperor Akihito to present...
PHILADELPHIA: "The era of big government may be over but the era of big challenges for our country is not," President Clinton said Monday in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. "So we need an era of big citizenship." At the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, big citizenship meant big names. Former Presidents Bush and Ford and former first lady Nancy Reagan, representing President Reagan, lined up on stage to sign a declaration of a "call to service" on the same site where delegates once signed the Declaration of Independence. Jimmy Carter spoke by cell phone...
...Independent monitoring, releasing audits and not cooperating with extremely repressive regimes are the basis of corporate citizenship," said Ian T. Simmons '98-'99. "What do companies like Freeport have to be afraid of? Harvard needs to take the lead on asking questions and taking actions...