In another example Cato president Ed Crane and Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope co-wrote a 2002 op-ed piece in the Washington Post calling for the abandonment of the Republican energy bill, arguing that it had become little more than a gravy train for Washington, D. C. lobbyists.

Less than a month before the November 2004 election, Smith wrote an op-ed for the Concord Monitor in which he denounced the lack of Republican outrage over phone jamming on Election Day 2002, in which Republican operatives had jammed phone banks used by the Democrats to contact Democratic voters and get them to the polls.

Joseph Charles Wilson IV ( born November 6, 1949 ) is a former United States diplomat best known for his 2002 trip to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium ; his New York Times op-ed piece, " What I Didn't Find in Africa "; and the subsequent " outing " of his wife Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.

According to an op-ed in the November 14, 2005 New York Times by M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan H. Marks, two lawyers with no first-hand knowledge of SERE, " General Hill had sent this list -- which included prolonged isolation and sleep deprivation, stress positions, physical assault and the exploitation of detainees ' phobias -- to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who approved most of the tactics in December 2002.

Eight days after Wilson's July 6 op-ed columnist Robert Novak wrote about Wilson's 2002 trip to Niger and subsequent findings and described Wilson's wife as an " agency operative.

In her testimony at Libby's trial, Miller reiterated that she learned of Plame from Libby on June 23, 2003, during an interview at the Old Executive Office Building, and on July 8, 2003, during a breakfast meeting at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington D. C. At the July 8 meeting, which occurred two days after Joe Wilson's op-ed in the New York Times, Libby told the grand jury " that he was specifically authorized in advance ... to disclose the key judgments of the classified 2002 NIE to Miller " to rebut Wilson's charges.

By strange coincidence, in 2002 the most vocal ' Leefbaar Rotterdam ' politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed by an animal rights activist at Hilversum Media Park just after finishing a radio interview.

* 2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.

* 1946 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist ( d. 2002 )

* 1924 – Moturu Udayam, Indian woman's activist ( d. 2002 )

* 1933 – William Luther Pierce, American author and activist ( d. 2002 )

* Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by environmentalist activist Volkert van der Graaf, on May 6, 2002.

* September 11 – William Luther Pierce, American author and activist ( d. 2002 )

** Jean Hinton ( married name Rosner ) ( 1917 – 2002 ) peace activist.

In July 2002, members of some 40 African social movements, trade unions, youth and women's organizations, NGOs, religious organizations and others endorsed the African Civil Society Declaration on NEPAD rejecting NEPAD ; a similar hostile view was taken by African scholars and activist intellectuals in the 2002 Accra Declaration on Africa's Development Challenges.

She was present at their first summit in 2002, bringing together founder Eve Ensler, Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban, and a Kenyan activist campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation.

In April 2002, he was at the head of an activist group arriving in the West Bank to protest the massive Israeli Army operation conducted at that time that caused many civilian Palestinian casualties (" Operation Defensive Shield " in official Israeli terminology ).

* Lionel Bernstein ( 1920 – 2002 ), South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner

Philip Francis Berrigan ( October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002 ) was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest.

Trade Union activist and journalist Jimmy Reid wrote in The Scotsman in 2002 criticising New Labour for failing to promote or deliver equality.

In 2002, Mehangiz Kar, an Iranian women activist received the annual Democracy award from then-First Lady Laura Bush.

The Chinese activist Liu Di, writing under the screen name " Stainless Steel Rat " ( 不锈钢老鼠 ), became a high-profile symbol for democracy and free speech in China since her detention in November 2002.

* 2002 John Lewis ( civil rights activist and member of Congress )

The Matthew Good Band was dissolved in 2002, and Good has since pursued a solo career and established himself as a political activist, blogger, and author of a book of previously published manifestos.

; Philip Berrigan: Philip Berrigan ( 1923 – 2002 ) was an internationally renowned peace activist and Roman Catholic priest.

Yuji Ichioka, ( June 23, 1936 – September 1, 2002 ) was an American historian and civil rights activist best known for his work in ethnic studies, particularly Asian American Studies and his participation in the Asian American Movement.

Bill Moyer ( September 17, 1933 — October 21, 2002 ), was a United States social change activist who was a principal organizer in the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement.

* John Aubrey Davis, Sr. ( 1912 – 2002 ), African American rights activist and political science professor

* Alexander John Goodrum ( 1960 – 2002 ), an African American transgender civil rights activist

In a 2002 story for the Chicago Daily Record, Mark Guarino, the newspaper's music critic, wrote that "' Forever Changes ' is a touchstone for serious pop fanatics ..." He added that, "... the band's first three albums were since rediscovered as visionary classics, all three culminating in ' Forever Changes ' ( Elektra ), the band's 1967 masterpiece of ornate pop.

During its North American limited theatrical release in 2002, the critic James Berardinelli wrote, " The stories of these ... characters are told in a disgustingly graphic, obscenely offbeat, and caustically funny manner.

Referring to the book's original 1987 publication in a Rolling Stone review pegged to the book's republication in 2002, the critic Jon Caramanica wrote, " It might well be the most comprehensive biography ever written about a pop act while it was still in its prime.

Commenting in 2002 on the publication of the 35th Anniversary edition of the Dangerous Visions anthology edited by Harlan Ellison, the critic Greg L. Johnson remarked that

Acclaimed director Michael Haneke named the film his fourth favorite film when he voted for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll ; director Catherine Breillat and film critic Joel David also voted for the film.

In 2002, he became an outspoken critic of trusted computing proposals, in particular Microsoft ’ s Palladium operating system vision.

The Shrinking Lover was named Best Scene of 2002 in the Skandies, an annual survey of online cinephiles and critics invited each year by critic Mike D ' Angelo.

This short film was selected by director and animator Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time, and critic Jonathan Romney included it on his list of the ten best films in any medium ( for Sight and Sound's 2002 critics ' poll ).

Still, Ernst Mayr, co-founder of the modern evolutionary synthesis and a critic of both vitalism and reductionism, writing in 2002 after the mathematical development of theories underlying emergent behavior, stated:

He is the former ( retired 2002 ) architectural critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, a daily newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota.

The judging panel of the 2002 Turner Prize, which awarded the £ 20, 000 prize to Tyson, consisted of the critic Michael Archer, then Director of the Hayward Gallery, Susan Ferleger Brades, director of the Musée National d ' Art Moderne, at the Centre Georges Pompidou Alfred Pacquement, and collector Greville Worthington.

Similarly, the critic Alex Farquharson commended the conceptual reach of Tyson ’ s Supercollider exhibition at the South London Gallery in 2002 claiming of the works assembled, ' Together they present the tragi-comedy of trying to make sense of life, whatever interpretative system is used, including the fluid and pluralistic medium of contemporary art.

In a 2002 review in The New York Times, film critic Dave Kehr said that the film "... is often said to have helped set the pattern for the nearly 50 years of Indian film that has followed it.

Ivan Illich (; Vienna, 4 September 1926 – Bremen, 2 December 2002 ) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and " maverick social critic " of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.

He was fired in December 2002 for his public disagreement with the administration and became a harsh critic.

" Blatty's screenplay was later published in 2000 with commentary by English film critic Mark Kermode ( Kermode also contributed to the audio commentary and feauturette on the film's DVD release in 2002 ).

He was called " one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer " in 1990 by American critic John Rockwell ( Taylor 2002, 54 ).

In 2002, another critic wrote that in hindsight, Gremlins has " corny special effects " and that the film will tend to appeal to children more so than to adults ; he also said the acting was dull.

His 2002 London debut was described by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian music critic, as the worst gig she had been to.

In 2002, television critic Alex Strachan wrote that " Almost everything about ZeD is exactly right, from its sense of timing ... to the lack of commercials " and that Sharon Lewis ' style was nicely easygoing.

In 2002 and 2003, Michael Wolff, the media critic hired by Miller in 1998, won two National Magazine Awards for his column.

* John S. Wilson ( music critic ) ( died 2002 ), American music critic and jazz radio host

Hashem Aghajari () also Seyyed Hashem Aghajari ( born ~ 1957 ) is an Iranian historian, university professor and a critic of the Islamic Republic's government who was sentenced to death in 2002 for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to " not blindly follow " Islamic clerics.