Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grown from being a small group of activist students in the mid-1970's to a broad-ranging group that serves an incredibly diverse population," said Chan, who is a Crimson editor...
David Mixner is a writer and gay activist whose most recent book is Stranger Among Friends (Bantam Books...
...downtown business district, which pays about 30% of Miami's taxes, is losing patience. "Taxes in Miami are twice what they are in the county, police and sanitation services are poor, and increasingly businesses don't see it as worth it," says Gene Stearns, a Miami lawyer and community activist...
OSLO, Norway: Two men struggling for peace in Indonesian-occupied East Timor received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo's City Hall Tuesday. Angry Indonesian representatives boycotted the ceremony. Exiled Timorese activist Jose Ramos Horta shared the honor with Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo. "I firmly believe that I am here essentially as the voice of the voiceless people of East Timor," said Belo in his acceptance speech. "And what the people want is peace. An end to violence and the respect for their human rights." The Indonesian government, which invaded East Timor...
After being named presidential chief of staff within days after the final round of voting, Chubais brought together an eclectic group of people, such as Maxim Boyko, a Harvard-trained economist, and Yevgeni Savostyanov, an activist and disciple of Andrei Sakharov, who in the Yeltsin era became a KGB general. In trying to create his "dictatorship within the government," Chubais has wielded power with brutal enthusiasm. The recently created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to collect back taxes, for example, has his fingerprints all over it. The idea is to scare money out of the companies that owe the government...