Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opponents, captained by Washington-based Activist Jeremy Rifkin, have raised legitimate questions about how well these experiments are regulated and monitored. But Rifkin and his supporters have also played on public fears by painting the specter of a biotech Chernobyl -- an experiment gone haywire, spreading man-made germs that could ruin crops, change rain patterns and render large swatches of California uninhabitable...
...book ends with Walesa's explanation of the private outrage but public silence of many ordinary Poles after the murder by police of Activist Priest Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984. "This death should not go unanswered," writes Walesa. "But our response will be a coolly reasoned one, imposed on us by our conditions and the peaceful means that we have chosen." Yet his overall tone is optimistic. "Sometimes I feel that I already belong to a period of the kind incarnated in our national anthem, Poland Is Not Dead...
This year's election is the second in which the activist group Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA) is sponsoring a pro-divestment slate to run for the overseers...
...think the [overseers packet] is a good opportunity to be able to say things which are important and timely," said Harvard-nominated candidate Helen C. Barber '51, a former director of the Harvard Alumni Assocation and a California community activist...
...Everyone on the jury was over 30," a beaming Amy Carter, 19, told cheering supporters after she and 14 co-defendants, including over-30 Activist Abbie Hoffman, were acquitted last week of trespassing and disorderly conduct charges. Their seven-day trial stemmed from a November protest against CIA recruiting at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Carter and her colleagues were allowed by the judge to invoke a centuries-old, common-law "necessity defense." An offense may be considered justifiable if it is directed against a "clear and imminent danger" that is of greater harm to the community, in this...