Word: activists
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Classmate and activist Bill Fletcher Jr. ’76 describe Ho as a “dynamo...
...compromising the ideals of the event is a recurring theme across the globe this year, as China pushes for more clout in cultural forums. This summer several Chinese directors pulled out of the Melbourne International Film Festival to protest the screening of a film about Rebiya Kadeer, an exiled activist whom the Chinese government blames for provoking deadly rioting in the northwestern city of Urumqi in July. (Kadeer denies any role in the unrest.) Beijing also criticized the inclusion of the Kadeer documentary The 10 Conditions of Love at a September film festival in Kaohsiung, Taiwan...
Sheehan is an activist and author. Her son Casey was killed while serving in Iraq...
...later years, Sosa went beyond her role as a musician to serve as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. But the South American troubadour (below, with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) never thought of herself as an activist. "All of us," she once said, "whether we are artists or military, must collaborate if we are to keep democracy on its feet and walking...
...unusually early first snow fell on Harvard grounds yesterday afternoon, activist William E. McKibben ’82 spoke to an audience of over 150 people in Memorial Church, requesting their help in drawing attention to the drastic effects of climate change...