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Three women peace-builders from Northern Ireland, Colombia and Sri Lanka criticized what they called the U.S.’s simple-minded approach to terrorism at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum last night...
...mail me with instructions for my secretary. I tell them I don’t have a secretary, but it would be pretty cool if I did. The worst was last summer when the other Richard Freeman published some controversial article in The New York Times about workers in Ireland. I had all kinds of belligerent Irishmen e-mailing me. And then I got on some e-mail list with all of these U.S. senators, and I e-mailed the list to ask to be taken off since I was the wrong guy, but all I got in response...
Among the countries represented are Afghanistan, Armenia, Burundi, Cambodia, Eritrea, Guatemala, Israel, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Sudan...
...delegates include Katrina Barr of Northern Ireland, assistant secretary of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, and Visaka Dharmadasa of Sri Lanka, chair of the Kandy Association of War-Affected Women...
...some it may be surprising that a local politician would meddle in foreign affairs, but in New York City politics this is routine. Last month Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped in on American troops in Afghanistan, and local politicians frequently go to the Dominican Republic, Israel, and Ireland, to drum up support from their constituents...