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...guarantee these principles and tenets that have been drafted by the community itself,” Aguilera said. Childs said he sees the incident as just one example of increasing intolerance, especially after the passage of Proposition 8 in Calif. “We’re a membership of mostly immigrants, mostly women, mostly people of color, and as upper management likes to say, ‘the lowest on the totem pole,’” Childs said. “If they can beat up on us, it leaves the door open to beat...
...Solidarity, led by the charismatic electrician Lech Walesa, had gained international sympathy after the 1980 shipyard strikes in Gdansk. It would eventually gain huge popular support; 1.5 million Poles would claim membership in April 1989. However, the Communist regime felt threatened by the union and responded with force. In 1981, Wojciech Jaruzelski, the secretary of the Polish Communist Party, declared martial law, criminalized Solidarity, and imprisoned much of its leadership. For two years, Poland suffered under military rule...
...just as impressive—if not more so—than it was 20 years ago. Despite the numerous challenges that Poland has faced in the past two decades, it has undergone an amazing transition. Since 1989, it has joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, earned full membership in the European Union, and built a successful democracy. To that end, we salute Poland and join with its people in the twentieth anniversary celebration of the 1989 talks...
...with the rise of more confrontational styles of protest in the 1960s came doubts about the NAACP's comparatively passive legislative and judicial tactics. Membership declined through the 1990s, when executive turmoil and near bankruptcy led some to question whether the organization would even reach its 100th anniversary. It will, on Feb. 12, just weeks after the swearing-in of the nation's first African-American President, who began his political career in Springfield. Could there be a better birthday present...
...current on-campus absence may be part of a larger statewide trend. Once known for bitter anti-discrimination battles and struggles against segregated Boston public schools, the NAACP Boston chapter has become less vocal in recent years, according to the Boston Globe. Since the 1960s, the membership of the Boston chapter has declined from nearly 5,000 to 400. At Harvard, the NAACP has followed a similar trajectory. Though a group of students founded a chapter in 1998, it soon became defunct due to a “lack of leadership,” according to Nortey. This time around...