Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaker, sociologist and anti-porn activist Gail Dines-Levi, showed a graphic slide presentation linking male violence to images of women in the media and proceeded to advocate the censorship of most current sexual images of women--in magazines, films and advertisements...
...anti-drilling activists argue that the area is just too sensitive to stand the strain of oil production, even if a spill never occurs. A few roads and airstrips in this seemingly vast wilderness, they say, could cause permanent harm to the habitats of caribou, musk-oxen, polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that...
...Washington the feeling is much the same. Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan told oil-industry representatives last week that they had suddenly acquired a serious image problem, and EPA chief Reilly asserted that "we will not move forward if we have any significant concerns that have not been resolved." Anti-drilling lobbyists are increasingly hopeful. Says Sierra Club conservation director Douglas Scott: "This is much bigger than syringes on the shores of New Jersey. It's an important political event...
...usual," and many Palestinians in the occupied territories followed suit. In Jerusalem on Friday, the first day of the month-long Ramadan observance, hundreds of Palestinians pouring out of midday prayer services at the al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount launched an angry demonstration, throwing rocks and chanting anti-Israeli and anti- American slogans...
Dunne, who coordinates women's issues for the Harvard Civil Liberties Union, says that she hopes that women's activism at Harvard will become more organized. The institution of a phone tree similar to one used by NOW in Boston to organize protesters when anti-abortion groups such as Operation Rescue come to town and the formation of a Harvard Students for Choice group are some of the possibilities to which she looks forward...