Word: activists
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...When the political pros saw the numbers coming in from the rural counties, they pretty much knew McCaskill was going to win," said Jake Zimmerman, a longtime Democratic Party activist who won a seat in the Missouri Senate Tuesday...
...commercial veal. But agribusiness and animal welfare advocates agree that a victory in Arizona will invigorate the growing national movement to reform factory farms. "If it works in Arizona, then we'll go on to California and other states," says Princeton professor Peter Singer, a renowned animal welfare activist...
...they did not. For their part, Greek Cypriot business leaders and resort owners fear competition from the Turkish side of the island if the north gains official recognition. Ordinary Cypriots blame their entrenched political élites for a failure of imagination. Neshe Yashin, a Turkish-Cypriot poet and peace activist who lives on the Greek side of the island, says that the political class "are all nationalists. And not only that, they are fighters. They killed each other. This is the class that benefits from the conflict." Says a U.N. official: "There's no public debate about how to find...
...Mexican Day of the Dead became the scene of protests denouncing the Mexican government last night. About 30 protesters—carrying black crosses and Spanish-language placards—rallied outside the show, calling attention to deaths in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where labor unions, leftist activists, and Indian groups have taken over the capital to demand the governor’s resignation. The protesters targeted the show at Harvard’s Peabody Museum because one of the event’s sponsors was the Consulate of Mexico in Boston. The consul general, Porfirio Thierry Mu?...
...Baghdad police, faced with scores of murders every day, rarely bother to investigate. Even though Al-Rawi insisted that his membership of the Association of Muslim Scholars had more to do with his faith than his politics, his killers may simply have seen him as a Sunni activist, the sectarian enemy...