Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week's undergraduate referendum on reform of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities showed clearly that students are dissatisfied with the CRR's present structure and procedures. Although the turnout in the referendum was disappointingly small----only about 1000 students voted----over 90 per cent of the students agreed that the CRR must be reformed, and approved four specific proposals for change...
...real irony of Italian politics, not expressed in the book, is that the PCI is gaining a share in the government only as they stop being agents of reform, as they make backstairs compromises and become corrupt--in short, as they become part of the bourgeois machine they might once have envisioned changing. The communist leader of the metal workers union, Harvard educated Bruno Trentin, proposes rationing meat as a partial solution to the economic crisis--not a reform that would really hit the rich, who can and will get meat anyway. Giorgio Napolitano, vice-secretary of the PCI said...
...project is an outgrowth of an attempt to reform Afro. Kenneth W. Vidato '77, president of Afro, is participating in the organization of the association...
This basic political bias is what Mother Jones will probably be offering in its articles in the future. What's effective, what will coalesce into a new majority of slow reform based not on what people envision, but what they can work out in a compromise with unstated beliefs working beneath their packaged statements. Mother Jones has lots of reprint though, a T.V. Quiz from The Real Paper, and what "some of the wisdom of the American working class" says about "which clothes to buy" from San Francisco's City magazine...
Mother Jones, by the way, was Mary Harris Jones, who was an organizer, "starting unions, running strikes, fighting for prison reform, helping found the IWW, supporting the Mexican Revolution, and even sending weeks at a time in prison, a victim of the now-forgotten American class war." She called herself a "Hellraiser," according to Mother Jones. But she didn't seem to hold any beliefs...