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...group of anonymous feminists hiding their faces with gorilla masks—known as the Guerrilla Girls—spoke to a packed audience in Science Center A last night...
...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) invited the Guerrilla Girls to Harvard as part of an initiative to increase its role as an activist organization on campus, according outgoing RUS vice president and event coordinator Beccah G. Watson...
...think [the Guerrilla Girls] are a model for activist practice and that’s one reason why we brought them,” Watson said. “I think activism is the most difficult part of the RUS mission, but also the most important...
...dense mist swirls, then parts, revealing one man, then 10, then an entire platoon of guerrilla soldiers, all armed and battle-hardened. Their tattered fatigues are muddy and cover tattoos they believe will ward off cold and deflect enemy bullets. This apparition is part of the Shan State Army (S.S.A.), one of a handful of rebel outfits still fighting the Burmese government. The S.S.A.'s goal?an independent homeland for the Shan, Burma's second largest ethnic group?is all but impossible to achieve. But this is still rebel country, with steep, jungle-clad mountains and plunging ravines, where...
...able to pacify Chechnya, the breakaway republic whose separatists were swiftly blamed for the subway bombing. In 1999 Putin, then a new and little-known Prime Minister, made his name by ordering the reinvasion of Chechnya. Military commanders promised a speedy victory; instead, a radical, fundamentalist wing of the guerrilla movement has brought the war to the heart of Russia. In the past nine months, more than 200 people have died in terrorist attacks, including the bombing of commuter trains in southern Russia and blasts at a rock concert and outside a luxury hotel opposite the Kremlin. Many...