Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keynote address early Saturday afternoon, Harry Wu, a prominent international human rights activist, spoke of the horrors he had witnessed while incarcerated in Chinese "Laogai," or labor camps...
...discussed his role as an activist, saying that he saw himself as "a piece of the brick on the Chinese Great Wall...
Civil libertarians argue that the Decency Act, in the name of protecting children, criminalizes everything from safe-sex information to The Catcher in the Rye. Says Shabbir Safdar, co-founder of the activist group Voters' Telecommunications Watch: "They basically want to turn the Internet into Barney the dinosaur." The Clinton Administration opposed earlier versions of the decency bill but refused to hold up the entire telecommunications bill to get rid of it. Pressed on the issue, a defensive Vice President Al Gore told reporters, "We're obligated to administer the law, but we said from the start this particular provision...
Back in Smolan's Mission Control, though, the Decency Act was mostly a side issue. Smolan declined to drape his pages in black, although he did include a fiercely worded attack on the legislation by Internet activist John Perry Barlow, and he did agree late in the day to add to his "Welcome" screen a blue ribbon signifying solidarity with the protesters. But he did not go out of his way to cover the protest; it is mentioned only briefly in the story that accompanies an electronic image of the Clinton signing ceremony...
Presidential adviser George Stephanopoulos, human rights activist Harry Wu and other national figures will brief conference attendees on the impact of the youth vote in deciding the 1992, 1994 and 1996 elections...