Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than 60,000 Americans engaged in quests like Szymczak's: mothers anxiously seeking children they gave up at birth, children hunting for their biological parents. Desperate, obsessive, their searches have, over the past two decades, ceased to be merely a matter of individual effort and have become a national movement. There are more than 450 support groups for searchers. Many conduct meetings modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, in which new participants rise with the passion of the converted and state their mission: "I'm Sarah, and I'm looking for my daughter born...
Still, observers said one clear purpose of the Norwegian Nobel committee was to deliver a message of support to the pro-democracy movement in China...
Speaking before a packed audience in Jefferson Hall, Knesset-member Shulamit Aloni said civil rights abuses by the Israeli goverment violate Jewish and democratic principles. Aloni is founder and head of the Civil Rights and Peace Movement party, which holds five seats in the Knesset...
...This archive would stand as a memorial to the movement and in particular to those who lost their lives for the cause...
...Saturday, they'll come as individuals. But for one morning they'll become a Movement, drowning Washington in a common voice...