Word: activists
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...nominate Jane Fonda for Woman of the Year. Her cinematic tours de force Coming Home and The China Syndrome have firmly established her as America's premier social critic, political activist and actress...
...broader movement to restore law-and-order that also includes the recent crackdown on China's tiny dissident movement. Last week Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, talking to a delegation from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, defended the stiff 15-year sentence meted out six weeks ago to Human Rights Activist Wei Jingsheng on the ground that "we needed to make an example of him." At the same time, the centerpiece of the human rights movement, Peking's famed "democracy wall," came under official attack. Meeting in Peking, members of China's National People's Congress demanded that "resolute...
...Many more Iranian students are afraid to speak out for fear of harassment. We are trying to show our support for those as well." Ann Chase, a Somerville community activist and member of the committee, said yesterday...
Iranian student activist Kaveh Afrisiabi said yesterday that more than 300 Boston-area Iranian students support the three demands. "We are being used as pawns to exert pressure for something going on 6000 miles away," he said, adding that many students are "very intimidated...
Most recently Silber began proceedings to fire or suspend five activist professors because they refused to cross picket lines of striking clerical workers, contending that they violated their contracts...