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...controversial new mayor, Rocky Anderson, to revitalize the downtown area, block strip-mall developments and open up bike trails and green spaces in the city. But his agenda is broader than that. "We are working on cultural change in a big way," says Goldsmith, a sculptor and former activist who developed affordable housing for Salt Lake's less privileged population before the mayor recruited him to his new job. "Our motto for the Olympics is 'Strength Through Diversity.' Diversity brings vitality." Goldsmith knows that much of what he is proposing to change in the city is controversial--and he relishes...
...last year the government faced, and lost, a major challenge to its policy. The country's leading AIDS activist movement, the Treatment Action Campaign, secured a High Court order compelling the Health Ministry to make nevirapine available at all public hospitals and clinics. The government appealed against the judgement, but last month the TAC renewed its pressure, suing to make the government allow all state doctors to prescribe neviraprine where necessary...
President Thabo Mbeki told the World Economic Forum in New York that South Africa has "the most comprehensive AIDS program in the world." Unfortunately, says Achmat, a veteran A.N.C. supporter and anti-apartheid activist in his youth, in maternity and pediatric wards the death toll says otherwise...
Natan Sharansky certainly appreciated those two famous words. He was a prominent Russian scientist and human-rights activist who was arrested in 1977 during a typical Soviet crackdown on “dissidents.” Imprisoned in a gulag labor camp, his heart swelled when he heard the news of Reagan’s address. In Peggy Noonan’s new book “When Character Was King,” Sharansky remembers, “There was fear in the West to deal with the Soviet Union,” but “Reagan...
While Perl-Rosenthal is very serious about his labor work on campus, he does not expect to become a professional activist. “I don’t have the psychology for being an activist,” he says. “[Activists have] a tendency to be bipolar and I am already of that persuasion. I don’t need it more. The sit-in was an incredible emotional roller coaster and I am fairly sure I wouldn’t be able to sustain that for a long time.” Instead, Perl-Rosenthal...