Word: activist
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Interestingly enough, the issue of violence on the news is largely ignored by all but a few activists. (One prominent activist is Barbara Walters, who clearly does not feel that the news need burden us with the vagaries of war or crime so long as a star or Kennedy is around to be interviewed.) This in part betrays the intellectualist biases of the anti-television crusaders. CNN is undoubtedly the most violent network on television, yet its proprietor Ted Turner can, without any irony at all, testify before a Senate Panel about the ills of TV violence...
...later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), he used electric violin and accordion to evoke the bucolic grit of rural America. At the same time, his longstanding commitment to Farm Aid, which he co-founded with Willie Nelson in 1985, gave his prairie- roots message an activist urgency...
Lawyer and civil right activist Katherine Triantifillou says she decided to run for a council spot because she was worried about the absence of a progressive woman on the council...
...later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), he used electric violin and accordion to evoke the bucolic grit of rural America. At the same time, his longstanding commitment to Farm Aid, which he co-founded with Willie Nelson in 1985, gave his prairie- roots message an activist urgency...
Twice in my life, in 1967 and again in 1973, I saw the face of war as a reservist soldier, first in Sinai and then in the Golan Heights. That experience turned me into a peace activist, but not into a pacifist ready to turn the other cheek to an enemy. If anyone tries to take my life or the life of my people, I will fight. I will fight if anyone tries to enslave us, but nothing short of the defense of life and freedom could make me take up arms. "National interest," "ancestral rights" and an extra bedroom...