Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students at the University of Massachusetts last week reacted angrily to an anti-gay activist who denounced homosexual rights during Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week...
...University of Michigan, which has divested of all South Africa-related stock, last week refused to grant an honorary degree to imprisoned South African activist Nelson Mandela because university by-laws stipulate that recipients must accept the award in person, The Michigan Daily reported...
Yureii and Olga Medvedkov, Dina Zisserman, and many other members of the group are also refuseniks. To Yureii Medvedkov, the right to emigrate is one of a broad slate of human rights that are indivisible from peace activism. "To be a peace activist is a right," he insists. Refuseniks, by applying to leave have already crossed into a realm of dissent which sets them apart from ordinary Soviet citizens. While simply wanting to leave is not usually considered dissent in Western countries, a desire to leave is considered tantamount to treason in the Soviet Union. As a result refuseniks...
Surrounded by mock shanties and uniformed Harvard police, Silvers also told the University to turn its glance inward. In a soft, rich voice, the activist argued Harvard has drifted from its ideal of truth to become a repressive, secretive community...
...hold a tremendous empathy for her," said Redgrave, "a woman trapped inside a man's body." The actress's work in the film, which airs on cbs next month, earned her the admiration of colleagues, though some were dismayed by news from London last week. Redgrave, a pro-Palestinian activist, is urging British Actors' Equity to bar members from working in Israel. "I'm heartsickened she would take this stand," said Yellen. "It seems like the antithesis of the understanding and insight her performance was meant to promote...