Word: concepcion
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...Concepcion Picciotto's speech is punctuated by forceful statements that belie her girlish, lurching sing-songy voice. On this cool spring day in April, Concepcion is on the sidewalk in front of Lafayette Square, a park directly across the street from the White House. She's lived on this same patch of sidewalk for the last 14 years, day and night, rain or shine, reminding the thousands of visitors who file past the White House each week about the dangers and horrors of nuclear war, the corruption that infects every aspect of the United States government, and the necessity...
...Concepcion is not alone. She is joined in her daily (and nightly) vigil by her friend William Thomas, whom she met over a decade ago after he was thrown out of Britain for destroying his passport and declaring himself stateless. (Thomas, Concepcion says, is in court on this Wednesday after being arrested for calling the police "fucking fascists...
...signs--a series of hand-painted meticulously lettered sheets of poster board: "Live by the Bomb, Die by the Bomb" and "Civilized People Do Not Nuke Fellow Humans." These signs have been destroyed and remade countless times over the years, but Concepcion says she does not mind putting them back together after storm or beatings, so long as she can continue to try and communicate her message to the American public...
...Concepcion Portela could not agree less. Maybe it is generational: she is 61. "I am a Marxist," she says. After years in a government ministry, she runs a private business advising foreign investors on joint ventures in tourism, biotechnology, construction. Her job -- which she considers temporary, until "we work our way out of this situation" -- is not to change the system but to preserve it by bringing capital into the country. Cuba, she insists, will never denationalize, never privatize: "I distribute what I produce to others...
...list of influential yummies includes Concepcion Campa, a 41-year-old biochemist who runs the Finlay Institute, where she helped develop a new meningitis vaccine. She serves on the Politburo along with Abel Prieto, 42, whose casual long hair belies his importance as head of the Cuban Writers and Artists Union. At the communist newspaper Juventud Rebelde, the 35-year-old director Jesus Martinez has tried to inject a livelier style for its young readers...