Posts Tagged ‘activist’

July 26 2010

WikiLeaks founder sees himself as ‘information activist’

Australian founder of whistleblowing website, 'WikiLeaks', Julian Assange, speaks to media after giving a press conference in London on July 26, 2010. The man behind WikiLeaks, the website that published more than 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war, doesn’t much care whether government agencies are enraged by his actions


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July 7 2010

Japan court convicts NZ anti-whaling activist

A Tokyo court on Wednesday convicted a New Zealand activist of assault and obstructing the Japanese whaling mission in the Antarctic Ocean, sentencing him to a suspended prison term.

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April 20 2010

Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, dies at 98

FILE -- In a  Nov. 19, 1964 file photo, from left,  James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality; Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Dorothy Height of the National Council of Negro Women, talk to reporters in Washington D.C. after meeting with President Lyndon Johnson.   Height, a leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, died Tuesday, April 20, 2010. She was 98. (AP Photo/file)Dorothy Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She was 98.


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April 6 2010

Amid RNC’s woes, N.H. activist resigns seat

April 5: In an interview, RNC Chairman Michael Steele said that he will not be stepping down from office, addressed his committee’s spending habits and claimed that as an African-American he has a slimmer majority for error than other people in his position. Politico’s John Harris discusses. (Other)A New Hampshire activist has resigned from the Republican National Committee, adding to the pressures chairman Michael Steele faces from a party frustrated with his stewardship heading into crucial midterm elections.


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March 12 2010

Japan arrests whaling activist for boarding ship

Japan’s coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whaling.



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March 10 2010

Family of slain U.S. activist sues Israel

The family of an American killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza will launch a damages case on Wednesday, stoking controversy over the treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters and angering Israelis frustrated by international criticism.

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March 1 2010

Yemen raid kills southern activist, family

A government raid left a southern activist, his wife and three children dead during an ongoing crackdown on southern separatists in Yemen, local officials said Monday.

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