Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playwright and gay activist Larry Kramer, the answers are No, No and Who Knows? In an article, "Why I Hated Philadelphia," which ran in seven newspapers, Kramer wrote, "It's dishonest, it's often legally, medically and politically inaccurate, and it breaks my heart that I must say it's simply not good enough and I'd rather people...
...human-rights activist in the 1970s, he was incarcerated in a Soviet psychiatric ward and his name mentioned as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. Soon after, he shocked supporters by recanting, on national TV, his entire code of beliefs. More than a decade later, he became Georgia's first freely elected President, only to stun everyone again, this time by forging a brutish dictatorship whose excesses provoked his own violent ouster. Last week, after a 20-month exile in which he fought an unsuccessful war to regain power, Zviad Gamsakhurdia carried out his most baffling flourish yet, shrouding his apparent...
...After the 1960 massacre at Sharpeville, the ANC decided to resort to a limited campaign of sabotage directed at government installations. For his part in organizing Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, Mandela--already a practicing lawyer, a veteran of the ANC Youth League and an activist in the 1952 Defiance Campaign--was sentenced to life in prison. In his statement to the court, Mandela articulated his political philosophy and refused to renounce what he saw as a moral obligation to resist white supremacy by the most effective means available. The statement became his creed...
Asian Americans have already formed organizations to serve as activist groups. Harvard's campus, for example, has more than eight Asian student organizations; at least two are less than a year old. But for the most part, these student groups refrain from political involvement. The Asian American Association, meant to be an umbrella group representing all Asian American students, is better known for its noodle nights and Quincy dining hall dances than for any political commentary...
...Warning others is unnecessary because everybody should act safely all the time anyhow," argues Rob Teir, a gay activist in Washington. But human nature is such, strong data show, that most people cannot bring themselves to act safely all the time. A fair warning that they are about to enter a highly dangerous situation may spur people to take special precautions. The moral duty of those already afflicted, though, must be clearly articulated: being intimate without prior disclosure is like serving arsenic in a cake. And not informing previous contacts (or not helping public authorities trace them without disclosing your...