Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which partially sponsored Wu's visit, presented the activist with a Foundation Award for his efforts to expose China's human rights violations...
According to Steven Meacham, organizer of the activist group Eviction Free Zone, the plan would lend backbone to a report issued last October by the council's Housing Committee. The report called on Harvard and the city to jointly fund the sale of the University's 700 formerly rent-controlled apartments at below-market rates...
...with Earvin is what you get. He's a straight-shooting, positive guy, and I suspect that's a key to his success no matter what he does." Johnson says that in the early days of his illness, he received advice and support from Elizabeth Glaser, the late AIDS activist. He has also drawn inspiration from visits to children with AIDS. "You've got to fight for these kids and everyone else. Their stories may be different from mine, but we are still in the same boat...
...students took issue with the company's alleged involvement in the execution of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, the importation of weapons for the Nigerian police and environmental violations...
When employers have rights and employees don't, democracy itself is at risk. It isn't easy to spend the day in a state of servile subjugation and then emerge, at 5 p.m., as Mr. or Ms. Citizen-Activist. Unfreedom undermines the critical spirit, and suck-ups make lousy citizens...