Arthur Ashe: Tennis Champion and Civil Rights ActivistWritten by Vivian Chakarian (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Arthur Ashe And Im Steve Ember with People in America, in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the life of tennis ch

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On Monday, Russian election officials formally barred anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny from running for president in the March 18 election. Over the past year, Navalny has launched a grassroots campaign to challenge the current president, Vlad

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BBC Learning English6 Minute EnglishAcademic to Activist Yvonne: Hello - this is '6 minute English', I'm Yvonne Archer - and thanks to WilliamKremer for joining me today. William: Hello Yvonne. Yvonne: Hello William! Today, we hear from a very impre

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Most of the world observes Labor Day on May first. But the United States has its workers holiday on the first Monday in September. Today

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AS IT IS 2015-08-10 Activist: London Property Market Tied to 'Dirty Money' Anti-corruption activists say billions of dollars earned from criminal acts are passing through the London property market. They also say a lot of the money for housing and ot

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AS IT IS 2016-03-14 Boy, 4, Shoots Mom, Gun Activist A Florida gun-rights supporter remained in the hospital Friday three days after she was shot by her 4-year-old son. Jamie Gilt, 31, was shot in the back while driving her pickup truck on Tuesday, p

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By Tendai Maphosa London 21 August 2007 Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is in London after meeting in Jordan with Iraqis working on the massive refugee crisis. Four million Iraqis have been displaced by the war. Half are refugees, mostly in Jordan an

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In Maldives, a political activist who spent years in prison has won the country's first democratic presidential election. Mohamed Nasheed has defeated President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who led the country for three decades, but was widely criticized f

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It was exactly one month ago that American Christian activist Robert Park made his illegal crossing into North Korea. His fate still remains all but completely unknown to his friends and family. A close associate of Robert Park says more than 2,000 p

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Iranian opposition activist Akbar Ganji accepts the Milton Friedman Award for Advancing Liberty Iranian opposition activist Akbar Ganji has won the Milton Friedman Award for Advancing Liberty, named after the famous American economist, now deceased.

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HIV Activist Runs for Parliament in Burma Last year authorities in Burma threatened to shut down Phyu Phyu Thin's AIDS clinic in a suburb of Rangoon. More than 40 patients live here in basic conditions. Most are too poor to afford treatment, or have

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A giant, inflatable chicken which looked oddly like President Trump appeared outside the White House on Wednesday. It created a sensation and then disappeared. With her curiosity piqued, NPR's Vanessa Romo went to investigate. VANE

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Activist for Women's Rights Was Known for Her Strong Opinions, and Large Hats By Shelley Gollust Broadcast: Sunday, August 28, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TW

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 06 July 2007 International human rights activists and lawyers are condemning reports that Somalia's interim government has carried out its first formal executions since the government body was formed with international backing i

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By Malcolm Brown Washington 10 October 2007 Activists on both sides of America's contentious debate over gun control are gearing up for what could be a major showdown. Their focus is on the nation's highest court, which has been asked to decide wheth

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By Joseph Popiolkowski Hong Kong 03 July 2007 A Burmese AIDS activist detained since May for advocating the release of the country's top political prisoner has been freed. As Joseph Popiolkowski reports from VOA's Asia News Center in Hong Kong, the r

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今天我们要学的词是activist。 An activist, 活动人士。 Social activist, 社会活动家。 He started his political career as a community activist, 他的政治生涯是从社区活动开始的。 Human rights activists denounced Iran's

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Activist helps US HIV law change UK activist has spoken about his role in pushing the US government to overturn a law which bans people with HIV from visiting the country. Paul Thorn, 38, an expert on HIV and TB, was stopped from speaking at the Pac

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今天我们要学的词是activist。 An activist, 活动人士。 Social activist, 社会活动家。 He started his political career as a community activist, 他的政治生涯是从社区活动开始的。 Human rights activists denounced Iran's

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Jan Sluizer | Washington, DC 04 December 2009 Global Exchange was founded in 1988 with an ambitious goal. As co-founder Kirsten Moller explains, We're not trying to create an institution. We're trying to build a movement, making a difference in the w

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