Word: activists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Celebrating the verdict, disabilities rights activist Sid Wolinsky told the New York Times, "The most significant thing about the case...is the finding that these professional bodies should not be second-guessing the determinations of learning disabilities made by the applicants' own clinicians...
...Massachusetts consider ourselves to be a progressive and liberal state," she said last week. "It's an embarrassment that we do not have pro-choice, progressive and activist women representing Massachusetts...
...Thomure is a prominent progressive activist and the past president of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee...
Williams has hired an important black activist, Phillip Pannell, as an adviser, and Pannell opened a campaign office in Ward 8, Barry's home turf. Williams also sought and won the endorsements of two key Barry confidants. Williams is on a roll now. Two years ago, he was awkward at community meetings, but he has learned a common touch. At the basketball-court forum, he patted shoulders and grabbed forearms--physical gestures once uncomfortable to him. And he's telling a more personal story. He is the adopted son of postal workers who raised eight children, he says over...
DIED. JONATHAN MANN, 51, aids and human-rights activist who in 1986 founded the World Health Organization's program to fight AIDS; aboard Swissair Flight 111. His wife, MARY LOU CLEMENTS-MANN, 51, an AIDS vaccine expert, also died in the crash...