Word: activists
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JUDGMENT AGAINST. Jerry Falwell, 52, Fundamentalist preacher and Moral Majority leader; ordered to pay $5,000 to his former Bible school classmate Jerry Sloan; in Sacramento, Calif. On a TV talk show last year, Falwell promised that sum to Homosexual Activist Sloan if he could prove that Falwell had publicly denounced a gay church where Sloan once served as a minister. Sloan produced a 1984 videotape of Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour, in which he referred to the gay church as "part of a vile and satanic system." Said Sloan: "It's the first time the man's been...
...Message songs," says Hancock, "get a little boring. You begin to sound like missionaries. With Sun City, though, you get caught in the rhythms." The rhythms are new, but in fact this vocal conscience comes out of a long tradition. There were activist antecedents in the alternative culture of the '60s, but those were selfabsorbed and, as both Browne and Van Zandt point out, were intermingled with the drug culture. Perhaps inspired by such punk guerrilla bands as Britain's Clash and the Sex Pistols in the late '70s, rock has buried higher consciousness under high conscience...
...weeks ago, about 25 Harvard students joined representatives of more than 50 activist groups on the Boston Common to protest U.S. support for the Salvadoran government's bombing of rebel forces...
Exposure to violence is one of the primary causes of tension in American families, noted author and political activist Dr. Benjamin Spock told a subdued Law School Forum crowd yesterday...
...noted peace activist during the sixties, Spock said he strongly supports demonstrations on political issues. "I had a great admiration for young people during the Vietnam War," he said...