Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes as little surprise that a group of animal rights activists is getting violent--this time mailing razor blades in letters to medical researchers. We have been very fortunate in the United States to have experienced so little violence and terrorism by the animal liberation movement. In Great Britain, where animal rights violence has become commonplace, there have been dozens of incidents annually in recent years: mail and car bombings, razor letters, arsons and violent home demonstrations...
...other large animal rights organizations have tremendous resources, largely from well-meaning contributors who see themselves as being friends of animals. But contributors need to question where their money is actually going. Does the group tacitly condone activist violence? Many groups encourage acts of extremism to advance the movement's agenda, even while remaining less than outspoken on the issue. These groups maintain their innocence when violence occurs, an unfortunate example of the movement's duplicity--where one hand washes the other, yet neither comes clean...
...event is important because they're starting a movement and signaling to others that this is the way things are moving," Shoshan said...
University attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr. said this step is largely a result of the SAS movement...
Ryan called the disclosure an important step, but not the ultimate goal of the student anti-sweatshop movement...