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...Yerevan, sat Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, representing a state that officially avows atheism, and Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa, founder of the Roman Catholic Society of the Missionaries of Charity and one among 2,000 foreign volunteers taking part in the unprecedented relief effort. The tiny, veiled nun nodded approvingly as the Communist official showed her a new information bulletin created to help reunite missing family members. It was an unusual concordat of hearts, if not of minds, that would have been inconceivable before the disaster opened Armenia to the world...
Soon, Toulon meets Sister Marguerite, a nun who is frustrated in her attempts to get raped. Heather Gunn, as Marguerite, gives the play's best performance. Shrill and shrewd, Gunn glides from comedy to tragedy to opera, landing squarely on top of each one. She even gets Howells' grumpy Toulon to smile on occasion...
Making them work with first-generation Mexican Americans who speak little English and are wary of Government poses a particular challenge. "What we are telling people," says the nun, "is that the system has failed and you must rise to fill the gap. Your vote makes a difference. You must organize...
...retreats and briefings, EPISO's lieutenants get a full grounding in the Alinsky doctrine from the no-nonsense nun. She talks of the nature of power and how to "build community" and suggests they read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. More to the point are sessions on how to meet a city council member, register new voters and "leverage relationships." That is, put the screws on public officials...
American Ideas introduces you to Sister Pearl Ceasar, a Roman Catholic nun in El Paso's Rio Grande Valley. Using the precepts developed by the late Saul Alinsky, a Chicago social activist, she is leading a campaign to bring drinking water to impoverished families along the Mexican border...