Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA), which is backing the pro-divestment candidates, solicited the endorsement of the Nobel Peace Prize winning South African Black leader to draw more attention to the pro-divestment campaign, said Victor Sidel, a prominent social activist in New York who is one of the pro-divestment candidates...
...Presenting this objective view of Puerto Rico represents the new attitude of LAO. It was founded as an activist group, advocating independence for the island, and in 1980, members burned American flags in front of John Harvard's statue. But now LAO is trying to unify all the groups," said Mariana Ortiz-Blanes...
...Mass. Propaganda Alert," a coalition of activist groups, urged a boycott of the series, criticizing its ideology as Cold War-mongering. Spokesman Tony Palomba said the group consists of seven anti-war organizations and has received numerous endorsements from local political figures and anti-war spokesmen...
...sent to prison for 13 years for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda but was freed last week, was somewhat optimistic. "Gorbachev is doing everything he can to activate people," he said, "but he has lots of opposition, both open and secret. His opposition is our problem." Naum Meiman, an activist whose cancer-stricken wife died in Washington last week, just three weeks after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union for treatment in the U.S., described the recent changes as a "more sophisticated way of dealing with dissidents." But in Jerusalem, Natan Sharansky (who changed his name from Anatoli Shcharansky when...
...significant that the Mobilization for Justice and Peace involves religious leaders and labor organizers and not just peace activist groups," said Tony Palomba, a staff member of the Mobilization for Survival--a Cambridge group supporting the march...