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...women that she has recorded in her research. These conversations are a mixture of group therapy, lessons in ecology and New Age karma. Rosa likes to rub Tibetan monk singing bowls while talking about the "old patriarchal sexual equation"; Maya, 70 years old and going strong, shouts out '"Skin hunger!" to get her point across...
...last Thursday when Al Gore was preparing to lead the U.S. delegation to Nelson Mandela's inauguration, the American most deserving of that trip lay in a Washington hospital. Randall Robinson, who spent years mobilizing the opposition to South Africa's oppressive regime, was in the midst of a hunger strike protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of sending Haitian refugees back to their misery...
...Hunger Strike Continues...
...Administration's tentative moves did not stop the three-week hunger strike by Randall Robinson, executive director of the lobbying group TransAfrica. Robinson was hospitalized for dehydration, but he vowed to continue until President Clinton agreed to give Haitian boat people hearings before forcibly repatriating them. By week's end Clinton was considering altering his repatriation policy...
Frustrated with the Administration's seeming indifference, 24 U.S. unions will call for a boycott of Haitian goods this week. At the Washington headquarters of TransAfrica, a group that lobbied successfully on behalf of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, activist Randall Robinson began the third week of a hunger strike to protest the U.S. policy of repatriating Haitian refugees. He saw nothing to please him about Clinton's Haiti stance. "The President is responsible for what constitutes a disaster in Haiti," he said. "The longer he waits, the more people...