Word: activistic
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...attitude of the neighbors is best summed up by one remark made at an early meeting, related by Riverside activist Cob Carlson. “If you build it, we’re going to bomb it,” the neighbor said...
...Iraq of flouting international law. Now, he says, it is the U.S. that "threatens to put at risk the accepted foundations of international law. This is a very dangerous thing." Ritter, 41, who says his goal in going to Baghdad was to "wage peace," makes an unlikely anti war activist. He grew up in a military family and became an intelligence officer after college, where he studied Soviet history. Even early in his career, Ritter courted controversy. In 1991, after his first marriage - to his college sweetheart - ended, he married a Russian woman he met while posted in the former...
According to Wang, the other protesters arrested included two Northeastern University students, one Emerson College student, one Emerson professor and one community activist. Wang said dozens of others were protesting outside the building...
...Ritter made a documentary film harshly critical of UN sanctions against Iraq - a film in which he sought to demonstrate that Iraq no longer represented a threat to its neighbors or anyone else. An increasingly activist critic of U.S. Iraq policy, the Bush administration's move to prepare America for war with Iraq prompted Ritter to fly to Baghdad and attack Washington's plans...
...been consistent all along, simply demanding strict adherence to the facts and the law, whether that be in demanding that Iraq submit to inspections or in challenging the case being made by the Bush administration for "regime change." But having taken to his new role as a peace activist with the same rock-jawed vehemence as he brought to his previous role as Saddam's accuser, he's likely to find himself in the coming weeks forced to deploy it once again in defense of his claims of consistency...