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Over 200 students filled a Science Center lecture hall Saturday to listen to AIDS activist Jonathan Perry give his personal life story as the keynote speech of the first Unite Against AIDS summit...
...AIDS activist Jonathan Perry has replaced Nobel Peace Prize nominee Zackie Achmat as the keynote speaker at an AIDS summit this Saturday at the Science Center...
Kimball had only a modest business career in Arizona before he became an apostle in 1943. His self-effacing manner and sieges of heart trouble and cancer led many to believe that he would be a caretaker President. Instead, he proved to be an energetic activist who toured 85 nations and spurred the international growth of the most successful religion ever born in the U.S. He was the first to put Asians and Latin Americans into Mormonism's top ranks, and permitted leaders of foreign jurisdictions to live overseas rather than in Salt Lake City...
DIED. James Groppi, 54, former Roman Catholic priest and civil rights activist who marched in Selma, Ala., with Martin Luther King Jr., led at least 200 marches for open housing in Milwaukee and was arrested more than a dozen times for his protests; of brain cancer; in Milwaukee. When Groppi left the priesthood in 1976 to marry a fellow activist, he was excommunicated from the church. He later worked as a bus driver and in 1983 became president of his city's transit-union local. He once told an interviewer, "Agitate, agitate, agitate is my motto...
...citing the organization’s social, political, and cultural nature, said she hopes the upcoming year will be a chance “to continue to foster solidarity amongst members and to improve the balance between the activist and educational goals of the organization...