Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rapes in three weeks at Brown University have left students frightened and angry that, in one activist's words, "One man has caused 2000 women to be afraid...
...boom in recycling, which generates an estimated $700 million a year, by selling it to scrap dealers who lately have raised their prices. Last year in Detroit, the price of aluminum leaped from 20 cents to 45 cents per lb. "When they go to the scrapyard," fumes Detroit community activist Pat Bosch, "no questions are asked." For law-abiding citizens already beleaguered by drug- trafficking, arson and the indifference of the city administration, aluminum thievery is the last straw. "They're devastating the city," complains Sophie Sroczynski, who had siding torn from her garage: "It's almost unbearable...
...January, Soviet human rights activist Andrei D. Sakharov gave Gorbachev a list of 200 Soviets he said were imprisoned because of their political or religious views...
Marju Lauristin, an Estonian activist, has suggested that the Popular Front was born out of the "alienation" many Estonians feel toward existing social and political organizations. The popular front movements have certainly reinvigorated public debate in the Baltics, inspiring proposals for everything from local convertible currencies and free economic zones to the establishment of independent relations with foreign countries. If such dreams and hopes result in nothing but more empty words, the return of old frustrations will be all the more bitter...
Thirty-two Cambridge residents signed up to vote at the registration rally, which featured Ted Kennedy Jr., an activist for the disabled, and Mel King, a former candidate for mayor of Boston, said Cambridge Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir...