Word: urban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggle in Iran between radical and conservative factions during the run-up to elections for the 270- seat Parliament. In two rounds of voting, the radicals, who favor extensive land redistribution and other measures intended to help the poor, defeated conservative mullahs allied with the bazaaris, or well-off urban merchants, and landowners. Khomeini and Son Ahmed backed the radicals...
Only when she moved to New York and "came face to face with urban problems" did she become active. "I started to read the newspaper for the first time in my life," she says...
...began working with the Urban League in Boston in their demand that Blacks be hired on construction sites at a proportionate rate to whites," he says. "We were a liaison between the Black construction workers and the companies. A lot of students involved were unwilling to risk suspension for the cause when it got to that point...
About 1100 of Harvard's 6400 undergraduates are involved in PBH's 36 committees, and alumni interest in the programs is so great that PBH has already surpassed its $600,000 fund drive goal. The programs range from working with the homeless to sponsoring summer camps for urban children to providing legal advice for the unemployed to supporting the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers...
Wolfe's exploration of the American urban experience helps chart a path outside the college gates, where all the world can sometimes seem a trade show. He exhorts us to cut through society's channels--lawyer, investment banker, janitor, teacher--and connect with each other...