Word: activists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Marine grunt, member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and now a political activist, I was pleased with both Coming Home and The Deer Hunter [April 23]. There are many subtle lessons in our Asian experience, and it is my fervent hope that the generation now coming of age will be exposed to all of the views concerning...
...pretense that Moscow did not abandon is its claim that the U.S. is the persecutor of dissidents. It awarded the Lenin Peace Prize to Communist Angela Davis, a onetime activist who now lectures at San Francisco State University on ethnic and women's studies. Davis, told reporters that publicity about Soviet dissidents was "a smokescreen to prevent Americans from understanding oppression at home...
...average nuclear reactor produces 400 to 500 pounds of plutonium a year. One pound, distributed evenly through the atmosphere, is enough to give every person on earth lung cancer for so goes the estimate of Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of Nuclear Madness and an anti-nuclear activist). One-millionth of a gram of plutonium constitutes a carcinogen dose. That's just one of the dangers when reactors operate "safely." Since at Three Mile Island, the public has learned that far more dangerous accidents will happen, and the anti-nuclear movement has been swelling...
Despite their constant demands for divestiture in South Africa, activist students have been unsuccessful in persuading the corporate mentality of the administration. However, the kind of student hypocrisy paraded at last Thurday's meeting leads nowhere--with either administrators or students. How can fellow students be expected to take rallies and boycotts seriously when "Strike Now" posters are sold by the Young Spartacans in the Union for two dollars a piece--and activist groups are plagued by the indecision and lack of leadership shown, for example, at last week's nuclear protest meeting (where students left because organizers could...
...injustice. It is this new consciousness of the need for social change that must be somehow directed. Somewhere between the poles of South Africa and toilet paper (topics treated with equal weight in a recent Assembly Poll) lie issues directly relevant to the needs of this community. Not until activist students have the courage to approach less glamorous and idealistic, but equally important problems, will they be taken seriously by their fellow students, by the administration, and by the society they aspire to influence. Until we re-examine our priorities, we will only perpetuate an absurd "charade." Anne A. Maccoby...