Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed raises, argued the commission, will reverse a 17-year, 41% decline in federal employees' purchasing power and make Government service more attractive. Reagan is expected to scale down the upper pay levels to around $100,000 before sending them on to Congress. Grumbled Consumer Activist Ralph Nader: "Nothing is so absurd as the assertion that these officials can't get by on pay and benefits equal to five times the income of the average American worker...
Rutgers University police arrested 19 protesters, including left-wing political activist Abbie Hoffman, earlier this month after they picketed CIA recruiters at the New Jersey campus...
Born in Oklahoma, Mankiller was relocated withher family to San Francisco under the federalgovernment's program to assimilate Indians intowhite society. There she became an activist forIndian rights, and in 1969 joined a group of SanFranciscan Indian students who took over AlcatrazIsland to protest the treatment of NativeAmericans...
Author and activist Amiri Baraka and exiled South African lawyer Bojana Jordan joined Isaac at a "teach-in" at the Longfellow School of Education. The informal event was part of a ten-day celebration of the Education for Action (E4A) Committee's 20th anniversary...
...action followed a rally speech by 1960s activist Abbie Hoffman in which the anti-war protester strongly criticized alleged CIA involvement in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Vietnam. Hoffman was also arrested...