Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boisrouvray is a leading human rights activist who has mobilized support for programs in direct care and prevention of pediatric AIDS and other deadly viruses...
...find a single person connected with MTV. Standing confused and perturbed in front of the bus, I'm attacked by a horde of "Rock the Vote" volunteers, and I shoo them off rather impolitely. I harbor unnatural hostility for the Rock the Vote campaign, and for the idea of activist voter registration in general. They bother me in much the same way it bother me when playoff ticket land in the laps of casual fans. I have no real grounds to be annoyed, but still, there's an undeniable elitist suspicion that if people don't have to work hard...
Williams, who has donated his royalties to inner-city activist groups such as Mothers Against Gang Wars, will not discuss his legal future. Court records show that his case recently reached the federal appeals system after an unusually lengthy entanglement over key testimony from a prosecution witness, now deceased, who was an active jailhouse snitch. "I simply don't believe that I am going to be executed," Williams says calmly. Death-row federal appeals commonly run a three-to-four-year course, and for Williams, whatever time remains has a clear purpose. "As much as you might want...
ANITA BRYANT, 56; BERRYVILLE, ARKANSAS; singer, former antigay activist...
Outside the convention hall, however, Jackson denounced the president's signature of a strict welfare reform bill. About a dozen other activist groups protested Clinton's moderate stances...