Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I walked out of the establishment and set up my own establishment. I set up institutions, I set up publishing. I founded PEN Oakland--Poets, Essayist and Novelists--an international organization because I got tired of these country club PENs in LA and New York. We are an activist PEN. We've led two media boycotts because we believe the diversity movement has to challenge the media now. There's a lot of poison in everyday life in America because the media cannot reform the way the Man's other institutions like baseball reformed. There's only four...
...human rights activist and a scholar clashed yesterday in a discussion at the Law School on humanitarian intervention in Iraq, Bosnia and Somalia...
...sense of responsibility on race relations issues varies from scholar to scholar Matory feels that his classes, in which he encourages intercultural dialogue, contribute to improve understanding. Many activist initiatives must come from students, he says, because professors are often too cautious...
...walver, even if obtained, should not have lielped, Donin said, because the World-Health Organisation and the International AIDS - Society had vowed to boycott the event and several activist groups had said they would protest it if the immigration ban were not dropped...
Harvard and Boston area AIDS activist groups said they were disappointed with the U.S. Senate's vote last week to bar HIV-infected foreigners from immigrating to the United States...