Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Take Back the Night is more than a march by women into streets that are dangerous at night. It is also a forum where women speak to each other, defend our right to control our bodies and demand that we be heard when we say "No" to men. Actions such as Take Back the Night reveal our strength in numbers, provide women with too-infrequent leadership roles and recognize a community which will support us in personal crises involving sexual aggression. They bolster our confidence as women and enable us to approach interaction with men from a position of strength...
Take Back the Night is not an appropriate platform for male spokesmanship. If men want to attend the event, or assist in planning it, their role must be one of support, not leadership. It is not a night for men to speak out. And it is certainly not a night for men to speak out about how women can regain control over their bodies...
...give a man the microphone undermines the philosophy which gave rise to Take Back the Night: that women must be able to speak for ourselves, to act on our own and to gain strength by working together with other women. Only by acting independently can we defeat male physical, intellectual and political domination of women...
...Cambridge, however, Ruggles' struggle for solvency has not been an easy one. Starsield called Harvard Square a tricky market. "If you hit the nail on the head, so to speak, you can do very well," he said. "There are a lot of people and a lot of potential business. If you don't do it quite right, you struggle like we did in the beginning. We kind of knicked the nail instead of hitting it on the head...
...were already paying dearly. An Algerian doctor permitted to go aboard described the passengers as tired but in "satisfactory" condition; some of those who were released said they had been manacled and herded into the front rows of the jumbo jet and had not been permitted to read or speak. Plastic bindings had cut deep into their wrists. Toilets became so fouled that some hostages were sickened; Algiers airport workers were finally allowed to clean up. Ramadan Ali, an engineer who holds dual Egyptian and American citizenship and who was one of the twelve hostages released in Larnaca, told...