Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bond issue on grounds that the alternative could be a "major tax increase." Many voters, already fretting over the prospect of rising federal taxes, trekked to the nation's polls with the thought that taking on a public debt with bonds would at least put off local tax increases...
Although he now lives in a London suburb, Lester was born in Philadelphia, where he entered first grade at the age of three ("I was bright then, and it's been downhill since"). By 22, he had left a director's job at a local television station to tour Europe and Africa on $2 a day, coming to rest later at the BBC. There he was assigned to Peter Sellers' memorable madcap comedy series, The Goon Show, which in spirit at least resembled Lester's later movies. "We did sketches that had no beginnings...
...summer of 1963, Selma, Ala., was embroiled in a voter-registration drive among Negroes. In standard response, local police made arrests on charges that ranged from vagrancy to concealing identity, from inciting to riot and truancy (for the children) to driving automobiles without proper license-plate lights...
Implied in Che's message to the OSPAAAL is the doctrine that nascent revolutionary movements in Latin America must coordinate their efforts, that the revolution in Latin America must come on a continental scale, rather than on a local, nationalist scale, for, he argues, American imperialism will be able to crush uprisings only if they occur one at a time, in one country at a time...
...claim that political support for the Freedom Budget would be gathered by "convincing" in an elitist way local "church groups and political clubs" to support it. I said that at the local level Freedom Budget supporters plan person-to-person work in '68 to counteract the backlash among low-income white voters by showing that racist appeals are used by reactionaries as a cover-up for anti-labor conservative social and economics policies. I also added that a supplementary effort would be made with "religious groups and community political organizations," not "political clubs" like Tammany Hall or the Daley machine...