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...Cambridge Alliance is a socially, ethnically and economically diverse group of residents who have formed this private non-profit educational organization to serve as a fiscal watchdog over local government and to hold our elected officials accountable. We dedicate ourselves to educate the local electorate to the pressing issues facing our city and to attempt to broaden participation in the electoral process by reaching out to those who don't traditionally participate in the election process. To this end, we will sponsor voter registration drives to increase participation in and understanding of the political process...
...female bosses, while trying to escape -- are focusing attention on the women's plight. Citizens' groups, believing the accused are less in the wrong than the deceased, are lobbying for a fair trial. "When I arrived in March 1991, I realized I was sold," Gun, 25, wrote a watchdog group in a letter from the Shimozuma Detention Center. "My life was like an animal's. I was sold three times. I begged ((my boss)) to let me go home, but she said I owed much money and must pay it back. Every day I had to sleep with...
Among the proposals discussed at the Re-evaluation Committee meeting was for a Council-associated watchdog group, similar to the recently disappeared "Harvard Watch," to monitor its own business. With all of the slick stuff that goes on in the Canaday B basement, this might not be a bad idea. But wouldn't the Council do better to create a polling arm to gauge student opinion? Another proposal would move the Council in the opposite direction. Alan M. Grumet '94 proposed, in place of several existing Council committees, a Student Affairs Committee that would have an "information/propaganda" office...
...glorified extension of computer bulletin boards. Vice President Gore talks about making it possible for a schoolchild in Arkansas to have access to a book stored on a computer in the Library of Congress or take a course at a distant college. Mitch Kapor, co- founder of a computer watchdog group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wants the superhighway to do for video what computer bulletin boards did for print - make it easy for everyone to publish ideas to an audience eager to respond in kind. He envisions a nation of leisure-time video broadcasters, each posting his creations...
Critics of the new form, like Gerstein, allege that the state yielded to the wishes of the organizations it is supposed to oversee, failed in its enforcement and oversight responsibilities, and reduced the amount of information available to the public and watchdog groups...