Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acting on your understanding of right from wrong." Thus the abortion provider, risking a bullet to serve his or her patients, can be a person of integrity--if she has truly reflected on what she is doing and admits to being "morally troubled by it"--as can the antiabortion activist who is blocking her path to the clinic. Maybe in his next book, due out in a year or so and to be titled Civility, Carter will recommend that they shake hands...
American human rights activist groups like Amnesty International and a Harvard student group, Burma Action Group, accuse PepsiCo of buying produce grown on farms which utilize forced labor...
...response to the pleas of Hla-Tint and activist groups may have more than economic clout with PepsiCo...
...fears that the council "is falling simply into a forum for the more activist students," according to member Catherine D. Rucker...
...years have passed since the rhetoric of the feminist anti-porn movement was appropriated by social-issue conservatives, who were quick to recognize its value. In the early 1980s, when the notion that pornography caused violence against women was beginning to take hold of some feminists, anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly included in her diatribes against sex education a note of concern about the effect of pornography on a "man who is already prone to violence against women." Borrowing from anti-porn activist Catharine MacKinnon, Schlafly wrote, "Pornography really should be defined as the active subordination of women. Nearly...