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...central India famed for its black soil and the fact that Mahatma Gandhi built an ashram and lived there for a time in the 1930s. Now Indians know it as their nation's rural suicide capital. According to Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, or Vidarbha People's Protest Forum, an activist group that keeps track of farmer suicides in the area and lobbies the government for help, more than 1,250 farmers committed suicide in Vidarbha's six central districts alone in 2006, up from...
...representative for Jennifer Lopez has denied New York DAILY NEWS reports that the singer-actress has beefed up her personal security team because of a threat from a deranged animal activist. The Daily News claimed Lopez had received notes swearing vengeance for "the slaughtered animals whose fur she wears." SCORE...
...literallyborn into a life of activism, but Yolanda King, the eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, arrived in Montgomery, Ala., just two weeks before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus there. A social activist, motivational speaker and actress--she played Parks in the 1978 mini-series King--Yolanda was the most visible family member during this year's Martin Luther King Day--the first since her mother's death last year. She collapsed, of a suspected heart problem, after giving a speech in Santa Monica, Calif...
Oakley won his seat in 2001. Born to a meatpacking family in tiny Davis, Okla., he came to Dallas 25 years ago, and his little contracting company grew successful in part by building many of the gay venues along Cedar Springs Road. Not that Oakley was a gay activist; he spent most of his time courting business interests, and he hardly ever mentioned his sexuality, although he has been out of the closet for 30 of his 54 years...
...University’s investments.The committee has yet to respond to the HDAG proposal, but the students remain hopeful. Elizabeth Gray, the CCSR secretary, declined to comment last week.Nationwide, the divestment movement remains energized, fueled by Harvard’s decision two years ago to divest from PetroChina. One activist group, the Sudan Divestment Task Force, is overseeing a campaign to pressure state governments and other institutions to adopt divestment policies.“Harvard was the first university to divest from anything, back before people really knew what to divest from,” says Daniel Millenson, the group?...