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It was about a year ago that the RNC announced that the Republicans would convene in New York, even though they had avoided that city as a convention site for 150 years, and that they would hold the convention in September, even though these things are usually done in July...
In a tiny hint of what lies ahead, the New York Times reported last week on an episode of street theater by a group called “Billionaires for Bush,” which gathered outside a posh Republican fundraiser in the City, chanting mock slogans like ?...
About 400 students descended on Harvard last Friday in an environmentalist convention organized by Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC) and the Climate Campaign, a coalition students against global warming from Northeastern universities.
The convention took on a partisan flavor as keynote speakers attacked the Bush Administration’s apparent lack of concern for the environment.
Event organizers said the retreat was the first in a series of conferences aimed at educating young people about political activism in preparation for the first ever National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC), to be held in Newark, N.J. from June 16-19.