Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shourie in The Crimson wrote that the Esquire piece dealt with my "decision to sleep with men he knew had AIDS. 'It was a political statement,' Darling explains." Political to sleep with people with AIDS? Like activist brownie points? charity fucks for the undead? Is that insulting? Or just incomprehensible...
Dean Clark may not have the mediamanipulating skills of, say, Derrick Bell, And when he does speak to the press, he may not espouse the activist ideology that is garnering Bell such undeserved admiration. But these are hardly sufficient reasons to call for his resignation...
...Some activist Lambs prefer to be called by code names by outsiders and often use a paramilitary lingo of "spiritual battle" and "satanic strongholds." One of them, a 34-year-old art school graduate known as "Maid Marian," says the organization is "like a family." But Ann Baker, head of a New Jersey- based pro-choice information and research group, contends that normal families do not practice what she calls "harassment and intimidation." Both advocates and enemies agree that the Lambs are dead serious about their cause. As long as abortion in the U.S. is legal, they will...
...personnel. Chairman John Kerry promised that the committee would probe possible fraud and corruption by entrepreneurs who collect huge sums from families but have yet to find a live MIA. One reason for the stalemate: ex- Congressman BILL HENDON, who collected tens of thousands of dollars as an MIA activist. Hendon, who should be a subject of the investigation, has been put on the committee staff by Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, the vice chairman. Says an insider: "How can we investigate Hendon when Hendon's on the staff...
...Brazil, dozens of activists, including rural labor leaders, native Indians and priests, have been beaten and shot, allegedly by the hirelings of ranchers, logging companies, gold miners and other interests. On top of all this, activists contend, the justice system serves only the interests of the rich and powerful. In February a state appeals court in Acre overturned -- on grounds of insufficient evidence -- the conviction of rancher Darly Alves da Silva for his participation in the Chico Mendes murder and ordered a retrial. "The conviction was the first time an executor of a crime against an activist was brought...