Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with local pastor and black activist Rev. Eugene Rivers, West talked about the roles that he and Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan played in the march, which attracted more than 400,000 people to Washington to hear prominent members of the black community speak on issues facing black...
Hams, a grassroots activist, said that reform should incorporate four principles: universality, equality, diversity and grassroots input...
...awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace prize Friday morning. "I see this honor not for me personally but rather for the small group of scientists who have been working for 40 years to try to save the world, often against the world's wish," the 87-year old British activist told reporters in London. The Nobel committee also cited the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the disarmament group Rotblat helped found in 1955 as part of an effort to get scientists to recognize responsibility for their inventions. The annual Pugwash Conferences were instrumental in creating a common understanding...
...revolutionary code that the Palestine Liberation Organization adopted in Lebanon in 1979, has tried at least two dozen Palestinians and handed down harsh sentences. "There's been no improvement in human rights--except for the decline in violence toward Palestinians due to the Israeli army's withdrawal," says activist Raji Surani, who was held for 18 hours last February after he criticized the security tribunal...
...suddenly into an attack on PUCC's membership, motivation and intent. He paints the organization as a cabal of self-righteous radicals determined to impose their agenda on the campus; to complete the model, he suggests that PUCC is driven by a hubristic, "delusional" vision of the council's activist potential. In the same vein, The Crimson's editorial staff suggests that a PUCC victory would mean the politicization of the U.C. grants process, a potential disaster for conservative student groups. If any of this were true, students would have good reason for alarm. Thankfully, however, these positions rest...