Word: movement
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Although Biden has said that the civil rights movement in the early 1960s first awakened his political consciousness, he was no campus activist during his four years as an indifferent student at the University of Delaware. In fact, he now acknowledges that he participated in desegregation demonstrations "only in a very minor sense": black lifeguards at the swimming pool where he worked during the summer invited him to join in some picketing in Wilmington. Later, as a law student at Syracuse University, Biden avoided antiwar protests...
...that has given the megacounties their distinguishing mark of self-sufficiency. The first great wave of American suburbanization that began right after World War II was a migration of the middle class from the cities to newly created bedroom communities. But for the past dozen years or so, that movement has been immensely reinforced by a flight of jobs following the people. It is being powered by some of the mightiest currents in modern life: the communications revolution and the switch from a manufacturing to a service economy. Says George Sternlieb, professor of city planning at Rutgers University: "Changes...
...truly a grassroots movement and it is successful because it is one-on-one," says Thomas Kiley, the head partner of a Boston polling company that has worked with AFSCME for a decade...
Because the movement to organize Harvard's workers is not focused on one particular issue or grievance, union leaders are stressing their autonomy as a major theme, union labor experts and union leaders say. "The campaign is all about the issue of personal dignity, not one particular issue," Kiley says...
...HUCTW campaign is very symbolic for the labor movement because Harvard is a decentralized work place, heavily populated by white collar and service workers, a lot of autonomy in the workplace and not necessarily much respect," says Heckscher...