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Need a way to communicate your outrage over, say, the bulldozing of a forest? The President's policies? The car dealer down the block? Judging by the growing number of political, social and environmental activist groups started by moms and grandmas, you'd be wise this Mother's Day (May 14--don't forget!) to seek tips from your maternal elders. Here's a look at Ma Power, past and present...
...jail break," says Simmons, while the Left, "they want total repeal." An hour into the film, Pataki and Simmons do cut a deal, but one that reduces the penalty from 15 to 9 years and still doesn?t allow judges to ameliorate the sentence. On stage, comedian-turned-activist Randy Predico notes sarcastically, "We got a major victory, all right. People who were facing 15 years to life are now all the way down to 14-1/2 years to life." (Some comedians get to fudge the facts.) "So it was a major victory. And Russell Simmons...
...China and South Korea. North Koreans who have escaped from Kim Jong Il’s totalitarian regime to bordering China have been sent back to North Korea to face imprisonment or execution, according to Amnesty International. China is a party to the UN Refugee Convention, and human rights activists say that China is required to grant asylum to North Korean refugees under that convention. Lee said he hopes to begin an activist movement on campus similar to the movement that focused on Sudan divestment here at Harvard. “Harvard students have to use their freedom and resources...
...worked for Whitewater Special Counsel Kenneth Starr, faces a possible filibuster. And Washington State's Supreme Court may soon strike down the state's marriage statute as discriminatory - making it the second state, after Massachusetts, to legalize gay marriage. Since Washington has no marriage residency requirement, one conservative activist dubs such a ruling "Massachusetts on steroids...
...rival the legend that is Jane Fonda. From her Kennedy-level Hollywood lineage to her multiple Madonna-like transformations, the star has dazzled the cinematic, fitness, and activist scenes, staying long enough to ruffle a few feathers or win an Oscar before moving onto a different chapter. After a 15-year film hiatus, a third divorce (from media mogul Ted Turner, who—as Fonda reveals in her book—supplied “terrific fountains-of-Versailles and fireworks sex!”), and a great many hours in therapy, Fonda has returned, resurrected from beyond...