Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called Toxic Alert which he says chased Arthur D. Little Co. out of the nerve gas business. He has opposed the Seabrook Nuclear Plant. Currently, he is the director of the Community of Elders, the city's largest service organization for the elderly. In short, he's a community activist who's been around the neighborhood for a decade...
...Supreme Court Justice is not supposed to be a White House 'team player,' " asserts an ad appearing in four major U.S. newspapers beginning last week. The full-page message cost People for the American Way, a liberal activist group, some $135,000. But that is small change in the all-out lobbying war over the Supreme Court nomination of Appeals Court Judge Robert Bork. Anticipating this fall's Senate confirmation vote, hundreds of liberal and conservative interest groups are expected to spend more than $20 million in multimedia ad campaigns and direct contact by mail and phone. Their main target...
...Jackson seems to feel that he has no choice except to run. Being the nation's preeminent black activist is not enough. Nor would it be enough merely to focus his energies on the causes he cares most deeply about and fight for them as a powerful leader. No matter how much respect he would get from that, it would not equal the respect he craves...
...past month, a rash of death threats to politically active refugees in Los Angeles has sent a wave of apprehension through the city's Central American community. Threats against 24 people have been reported to the police this month by Salvadoran activists who are working against the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Hoarse voices with Salvadoran accents leave ominous messages on answering machines: "For being a Communist, we will kill you." One activist received a list with the names of 19 refugees targeted for killing along with a menacing handwritten note saying, "Nothing will save you. Death, death. Flowers...
...most serious incident so far, Yanira Corea, a 24-year-old Salvadoran activist, was forced at knifepoint by two men who spoke with Salvadoran accents into a van outside the downtown-Los Angeles office of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a group opposing U.S. policies in Central America. For several hours, she told police, she was kept blindfolded in the van as her abductors cut her hands, burned her with cigarettes and sexually assaulted her, while they questioned her about CISPES' activities and membership. When they set her free, says Corea, the kidnapers told...