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Graves: There still exists a misunderstanding about how "secret" we are. We keep our raters' names anonymous because we don't want them to be pressured by the studios, by activist groups, by anything or anyone...
...Saif Abukeshek when he became an online activist, and he'll give you the same answer as many of his Palestinian peers: after the second intifada erupted, in 2000. That explosion of violence in the occupied territories brought about a tough lockdown on Palestinian mobility by Israeli forces and produced the right conditions for a home-grown, grass-roots activism - frustrated youth trapped inside all day with nothing but the TV and the internet to turn to. "It's a way to achieve effective non-violent resistance," says Abukeshek, 27, who is from the West Bank city of Nablus...
...part of Nasheed and the opposition - and numerous more detentions at the hands of the government. By 2005, Gayoom introduced a "roadmap" toward multi-party democracy, but it is unlikely the incremental changes allowed in the past few years would have come about without the efforts of activists who had long been frozen out of the political mainstream. "A free press, an independent judiciary, an auditor general - it took Gayoom nearly three decades to even consider these things," says Moosa, the self-exiled activist who is also editor of the online Dhivehi Observer...
...director of development. PBHA-A’s Saturday night award dinner in the Taubman Building honored Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa E. Brooks ’91 as The Outstanding Alumna. Brooks said she felt at home at PBHA and spoke of the opportunity presented to current activist students. “This is one of those rare chances when you won’t get stomped on, and you will actually get listened to because all the grown-ups said ‘whoops,’” she said. The Reverend Peter J. Gomes...
...central government, according to the Web site. “The war may appear to have ceased, but it will cost us more to restore the hope and happiness that used to take place in this nation” said Julian J. Atim, a Ugandan physician and human rights activist. Speaking to the crowd assembled in Boston Common after the walk, Atim said that students could help the cause simply by making phone calls and forwarding e-mails, even without attending events like the GuluWalk...