Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Women's rights activist Gloria Steinem joined five other panelists at Northeastern University yesterday in attacking GOP presidential candidate Robert J. Dole and praising Democratic candidates for their commitment to women...
...born in a small mountain village in Nepal, astrologers foretold that if she were born female, she would be as strong as a son. Appropriately named after the Hindu goddess of power, Durga went on to pursue a turbulent career as teacher, journalist and democratic and human rights activist in Nepal, during which her strength and constancy were severely tested. Contrary to the wishes of her conservative Hindu family, she became a scholar and university lecturer, but was blacklisted by the government for her political activities and eventually expelled from the university where she taught. She then turned to journalism...
...least accomplished establishing that there is a need for an activist coalition on campus that is diverse," said Rita Rasogi '99, a participant at the meeting...
...addition, a flier containing brief articles about various activist groups and published by UNITE was distributed at the Lyman Common Room. The flier was also given out at undergraduate registration last month...
...rightist indignation in Japan, which has not fought a war since 1945 but which sent its coast guard to the islands last week to turn away two groups of Chinese protesters intent on reaching the disputed specks. Last week the Chinese got their first martyr--a Hong Kong activist who drowned after leaping overboard to symbolically claim the waters for China. Beijing, which had encouraged the confrontation to tweak Tokyo, now worries about being swept up by the populist fervor...