Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clamshell Alliance, however, see the move toward pressuring companies invested in nuclear power as something more than just an effective means of promoting anti-nuke feeling. Instead they see it as a broadening of the movement from its initial focus on halting the nuclear energy through occupations--direct action--to measures involving economics...
Dorothy Boudreau, a staff member of the Mobilization for Survival, says, "Shutting down the stock exchange will be the movement's most political action ever, involving more than just the apolitical environmentalists that have been the primary supporters of the occupation...
...United States moves into the new decade, the Right looks forward with relish to the prospects of oil and gas decontrol, the MX missile system and massive defense spending increases, tax reform amounting to welfare for the rich, a federally-sponsored recession, social service cutbacks, court attacks on affirmative action, rollbacks of hard-won gains in abortion rights and labor law reform. Most of all, the Right expects that the growing public distrust of Big Government and demands for Washington to get its nose out of other people's business will allow the corporations to step into the vacuum...
This seems like a rather harsh position, but we can distinguish between the rights of the fetus and the action that a mother might feel morally compelled to take. Consider the following situation: suppose you were to return home one day and find a stranger camped out in your living room and peacefully eating the ham sandwich you saved for dinner. You would be tempted to throw him out in the street. Almost everyone could agree that you had the right to eject...
Tanya Luhrmann '80-3 is working for Abortion Rights Action Week...