Word: activists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Inhuman Intervention Your report about China's use of forced abortions and sterilizations as part of its one-child policy [Sept. 19] painted a horrific picture. Congratulations to brave legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who, despite being blind and living under the threat of personal danger, has worked unselfishly to file a class action against officials to protect women and children. His dedication is something that anyone can respect and strive to emulate. Carol E. St. Amand Ludlow, Massachusetts...
...some intellectuals, Lenin's corpse pales in comparison with the crises facing Russia, such as growing authoritarianism and Chechnya. "I hate Lenin," says human-rights activist Lev Ponomarev. "But this latest idiocy doesn't interest me. The state is rebuilding its repressive machinery, and we are discussing Lenin's body." Yet the debate also is a window on changing attitudes among the ruling élite. Since Putin came to power, a new ideology has been taking shape that blends imperial nostalgia with the occasional careful nod to the Soviet Union's greatness under Stalin. These days the Kremlin honor guard...
...supposed to be nominating his personal lawyer for a job on the United States Supreme Court," she said. "You don't have your personal accountant replace Alan Greenspan. It's embarrassing to hear people describe this as if this is the best woman Bush could get." Veteran conservative activist Paul Weyrich saw insult in the assumption that Bush's followers wouldn't dare question his choice. "They are so used to conservatives falling in line, rolling over and playing dead--that's what they expected," he said...
First, meet Andrew H. Golis ’06 and Chimaobi O. Amutah ’07, the agro-alchemists of the Cambridge Common protest blog (http://cambridgecommon.blogspot.com). Golis, veteran campus activist and former Crimson columnist, started the site late last year as an outlet for opinion and vitriol too hot for publication on this newspaper’s editorial pages. The effort floundered, and Golis decided to start anew this September. He brought Amutah on board, and in his words, “relaunched big time...
...stone’s throw away from Lowell House and the Lampoon, the Zine Library occupies a small room inside the faded, wood-paneled building at 45 Mt. Auburn Street. The house, home-base to the Harvard Social Forum (HSF) activist coalition, was once a Harvard frat, and before that, a gentlemen’s club. Today, it is a mecca for young radicals, leftists, and anarchists, many of them Harvard students affiliated with HSF and the rest Boston locals just there for the zines...