Word: itness
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The staff position claims that political involvement will cost PBHA the support of its volunteers. The historical record dissents. Involvement in political stands is nothing new to the organization. PBHA has for years affirmed non-partisan positions on issues ranging from minority hiring to toxic waste. All the while, PBHA...
A few volunteers may shy away from an organization that stands up for social change. The loss of those volunteers to public service would be regrettable. But it would be far more regrettable for PBHA to forsake the opportunity to work toward real, long-term improvements in our society.
It was a shocking story. Apparently, PBHA has just elected someone called Ehrenreich as president. Ehrenreich, with a haughty disregard for the PBHA tradition of providing cheerful, apolitical services to adorable underprivileged children, hopes to turn PBHA into a "central planning office" for the purpose of getting PBHA more involved...
PERHAPS it's just that most people refer to me as "Rosa" But perhaps it was that something crucial was missing from the article. I struggled to pin down just what it was.
And then it hit me.