Word: separatist
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...decision is still part of the old separatist philosophy. It seeks to repair the damage, but doesn't address the root cause of the problem--the economic malaise of all of New Haven, not just areas surrounding the Yale campus...
...YEARS, CANADA HAS projected a puzzling image to the world: a wealthy and comfortable nation that keeps warring peaceably with itself. During all that time, the French-speaking province of Quebec demanded additional powers to preserve its language and unique culture, while separatist pressure, generated by the Parti Quebecois, threatened breakaway if the demands were frustrated. The nine mostly English-speaking provinces were often resentful of Quebec's push for special status but eager to defend their own vision of the union. In one failed constitutional negotiation after another, doomsayers declared that the country's future was at stake. From...
...where the unemployment rate is 14%, the constitutional fight over the role of the province within Canada today borders on the irrelevant, compared with economic concerns. "Quebec sovereignty is all well and good," says Mayor Ulric Blackburn of the St. Lawrence River town of Chicoutimi, which was once solidly separatist, "but we're a little tired of that battle when jobs are really what matter." Quebec's 55.4% rejection of the constitutional agreement produced quite the opposite of political ferment. "After all these years of debates, referenda and what have you, what are we left with?" asks Louise...
...others point to women who have formed separatist "Women-Church" worship, a New Age blend of feminist, ecological, neopagan and Christian elements. One book offers liturgies to celebrate the coming-out of lesbians, teenagers' first menstrual period and cycles of the moon. In an Ash Wednesday rite, women repent not of their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name...
...Quebec separatists avoided defeat. But to make the province an independent country, they would have to win provincial elections in 1994 and then a provincial referendum. Polls show only about a third of the Quebec vote to be hard-core separatist. Quebec's demands for a looser federation, Western insistence on greater clout, aboriginal longing for self-government -- all are likely to be fought out piecemeal in Ottawa, with uncertain results. The only point everybody can agree on is that the idea of trying to solve all these problems by writing a new constitution is dead for years to come...