Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have. Early on, when I started by myself, I did it several times. Back in '86, a group of seven or eight executive members of Christian Leaders for Responsible Television spent a day and a half visiting with all three networks and expressing our concerns. In essence, their response was "Thank you for coming; we're doing a good job. We'll talk to you anytime you want to talk with...
...hammer. I asked the children to get up and turn the set off. That's all I'd ever been told to do: If you don't like what's on television, turn it off. Then I realized that I'm a part of a whole, larger social group, and what goes on in society, especially in the television industry, is going to affect me and my family and my children -- they were small at that point. And I then realized that I should try to do something about this...
...crowd held back while a group of 40 hungry women and children rushed into the Boerio and grabbed as much milk, flour and sugar as they could carry. As they fled, the ransacking began in earnest. Young, strapping men armed with crowbars knocked spaghetti, oranges and hunks of meat onto the floor as they rushed to scoop up groceries. Others carted off boxes of laundry detergent, frozen foods and toilet paper into their Peugots, Volvos and even waiting taxis. Within 20 minutes they had destroyed the bakery at the rear of the store, smashed out the windows and broken open...
...town's involvement transcends checkbook activism. Media-shy Meryl Streep performs as spokeswoman for Mothers and Others for Pesticide Limits. The names of celebs who huddled around a garbage-filled storm drain at a rally for Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica, Calif., group, read like a short list for the 25 most intriguing people: thirtysomething people (Ken Olin, Patricia Wettig), sitcom people (Justine Bateman, John Ritter), people named Moon and Dweezil Zappa. A sludge protest drew Dynasty's Linda Evans to Olympic, Wash. More recently, Dennis Weaver, Michael Landon and Robert Downey Jr. voiced their protest against offshore...
...groups will prod show people toward making environmental awareness as crucial a part of their scripts and songs as boy meets girl. The Environmental Media Association, a clearinghouse for save-the-earth societies, is fronted by such heavyweights as Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, Creative Artists Agency President Michael Ovitz, MCA President Sid Sheinberg, and Lear, who with his wife Lyn was a group founder. At the letter-stuffing level, the Earth Communications Office is targeting the few thousand actors, writers, producers and directors whose work reaches billions of people. In seminars and trips, ECO will educate creative folk on earth...