Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...punishable; opinions should be countered not by judges and juries but by "the competition of other ideas." But facts can be false and actionable. Evans and Novak had quoted one unnamed political scientist as saying that "Ollman has no status within the profession, but is a pure and simple activist." Is that an opinion, or a fact subject to verification? To Judge Antonin Scalia, who is also a Reagan appointee on the court of appeals, this was a "classic and coolly crafted libel." But not to Bork. Ollman, he reasoned, was no cloistered academic. He boasted that most...
...ardent supporters of Trinity Church's controversial pastor, D. Douglas Roth; their arrest marks the latest episode in an extraordinary series of events at his parish. Roth, who was appointed pastor of Trinity Lutheran in 1978, is a member of the Denominational Ministry Strategy, a social activist group of Pittsburgh-area clergy. D.M.S. is allied with a militant group of local labor leaders and unemployed workers, which has accused banks and businesses of undermining the local economy by investing funds and shifting jobs overseas...
More than 350 American corporations and U.S. banks hold investments and loans in South Africa. Activist stockholders and their supporters have tried, generally unsuccessfully, to persuade such firms to quit doing business there. Where that has failed, the movement has pushed a tactic termed divestment. This involves pressuring public and private institutions to sell their stock in firms that invest in South Africa...
THIS WEEK, HRAI has once again presented Harvard with a slate of three prisoners being held against the dictums of the United Nations Human Right Resolution on its 36th anniversary. There is Mila Aguilar, literary scholar and activist in the Phillipines, who was arrested ostensibly for "subversion." Through this charge was later changed to possession of subversive documents for which she was allowed to post bail, she was not released, but rather kept in solitary confinement. She is the aunt of Eric Aguilar San Juan...
Lastly, Amnesty is seeking to end the continued detention of Florence a South African activist. Though her only 'crimes' have been association with the African National Congress and the Federation of South African Woman, she has repeatedly been the subject of banning orders and detention without trial over a period of 20 years...