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...Wamponoags were further shuffled around in 1711, when the governor sold his interest in the land to a missionary society. After the American Revolution, the missionaries withdrew and the Indians found themselves under the control of absentee landlords as "involuntary wards of the state." According to a Wamponoag historical pamphlet, wards had no control over their lands and homes, could not make legally binding contracts, and "were classed with paupers, aliens, idiots and the insane in their relationship to the government." The Wamponoags remained in this state until 1870 when Gay Head was incoporated as a town...
...hold themselves out as above the public fray and capable of self-regulation," says Green. "It's the same argument put out by meat manufacturers in 1906 and auto manufacturers in 1965." To increase the pressure, a Nader group, Public Citizen Inc., last week shipped copies of a pamphlet entitled 10 Ways to Take On Your Local Bar Association to 50 consumer groups across the nation. The broadside urges formation of local watchdog units to monitor bar regulations, publication of legal directories with fee information, pressure on law firms for more pro bono publico work, and demands...
...operation; as Edward W. Powers, Harvard's associate general counsel for employee relations, said, "In a sense, the union needs Harvard more than Harvard needs the union." And finally, both campaigns were "labor-intensive"--both Sytek and Steiner agree that the efforts required far more hours of planning and pamphlet-writing than actual cash, and the campaigns were obviously far cheaper than paying Ropes and Grey for another few years of legal battles...
Laura J. Orgel '79, a committee member, said yesterday the pamphlet is an attempt to encourage student awareness of discrimination in the curriculum and to attract students to a meeting next month to discuss the issue...
...pamphlet was written by Student Outreach, a subcommittee of the Committee for Women's Studies, which was established last March to lobby for the establishment of a women's studies department at Harvard...