Word: socialist
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...initially ineffective because the government simply repressed them harshly as soon as they occurred. The EZLN represented the culmination of a twenty-year tradition of grassroots organizing to solve the problems of underdevelopment and poverty that plagued Chiapas. The Catholic Church, the indigenous movements in the area and the socialist theorists from Mexico City joined forces to create this movement that broke into the Mexican political scene, as well as the international media scene, with its declaration of war against the state and its violent attacks in January...
...Socialist Alternative
...that is at this point—it would unite the groups in the Forum in a much more palpable way. After all, the coalition’s roster, which features everybody from the Harvard Initiative for Peace & Justice and the Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group to CityStep and the Socialist Alternative, is extremely diverse and somewhat disjointed. Their goals are obviously all different, Gould-Wartofsky admits, but on a greater scale, they are all after change—and the Forum allows them to help each other and share their resources...
...1980s, Democrats used to get accused of Blaming America First—siding with some socialist guerilla, U.N. potentate or foreign interest group against this country’s flawless Cold War policy of bloody right-wing coups, and freedom and democracy...
...same time, high-rent entertainment p.r. firm Rogers & Cowan managed to work Juan's logo into the final season of Friends and finagled an invitation for the mustachioed coffee grower to HBO's Emmy Awards after-party this week. It's a surprisingly slick strategy for the socialist-minded, nonprofit federation, which for decades has used the proceeds from its coffee sales to build roads, schools and health clinics in coffee-growing regions...