Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

These activists also point out that heavy subsidization of developed nations ' agriculture and the aggressive use of export subsidies by some developed nations to make their agricultural products more attractive on the international market are major causes of declines in the agricultural sectors of many developing nations.

He argues that the term " anti-globalization " is a term coined by the media, and that radical activists are actually more in favor of globalization, in the sense of " effacement of borders and the free movement of people, possessions and ideas " than are the IMF or WTO.

Observers point out that many High Courts and certain Supreme Court judges are reluctant to entertain PILs, even those filed by well known Non-Governmental Organizations and activists, citing concerns of balance of powers and the importance of democratic law making.

The Christian countercult movement is a social movement of Christian ministries and individual Christian countercult activists who oppose religious sects thought to either partially abide or do not at all abide by the teachings that are written within the Bible.

" She said that " pro-homosexual activists ... are creating media events all over the country and even internationally.

* 1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

The Green Parties are generally applied to those in the environmental movement working as volunteers, activists or paid staff.

Terms used to label homosexuals are often rejected by Indian activists for being the result of imperialist influence, but most discourse on homosexuality centers on men.

* 2007 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9 / 11 anti-terrorism raids.

Not all PLO activists are members of one of the factions – for example, many PNC delegates are elected as independents.

Critics, including practitioners in the physical sciences and social activists, have argued that such definition and quantification is impossibly difficult, and that such measurements are often misused, such as with psychometric personality tests used in employment procedures:

" In addition, the group Presbyterians for Middle East Peace has issued a statement against the divestment vote as well, saying, " We are not surprised by the MRTI recommendation because there is a small group of activists within the PCUSA that has relentlessly sought to punish Israel.

* Bio-Sentinels-Humans infected by a technological virus created by Simon Trask, the victims become anti-mutant activists, who later at Trask's command, are fully transformed into robotic Sentinels mindlessly following Trask's commands.

The Salem Radio Network syndicates a group of religiously oriented Republican activists, including evangelical Christian Hugh Hewitt and Jewish conservatives Dennis Prager and Michael Medved ; these are mostly distributed in a 24-hour network format among Salem's own stations, and they generally earn ratings much less than their syndicated counterparts.

Kahane Net, the Jewish Defense League and B ' nai Elim ( formed by former JDL activists ) are occasionally associated with Kahanism.

" Known subversives " ( including peace activists and some trade unionists ) are arrested and interned under the Emergency Powers Act.

Free speech zones are areas set aside in public places for political activists to exercise their right of freedom of speech as an exercise of what is commonly called " TPM " or " time, place, manner " regulation of speech.

Typically local elections are nonpartisan — local activists suspend their party affiliations when campaigning and governing.

Many men and women with background in prostitution and activists for sex workers ' rights, such as Norma Jean Almodovar and Starchild, have run for office on the Libertarian Party ticket or are active members of the party.

A number of Orthodox Jewish vegetarian groups and activists promote such ideas and believe that the halakhic permission to eat meat is a temporary leniency for those who are not ready yet to accept the vegetarian diet.

Other activists, especially those from the more established tradition, view the safety, practicality, and intent of many segregated cycle facilities with suspicion.

Human rights activists, foreign scholars and opposition party members have pointed out that members of the opposition parties often suffer " misfortunes " of various kinds, including arrest, sued into bankruptcy especially in defamatory law suits, and imprisonment.

Many Slovene political activists, especially in Carniola and Styria, were imprisoned by Austro-Hungarian authorities on charges of pro-Serbian or pan-Slavic sympathies.

Agnew was known for his scathing criticisms of political opponents, especially journalists and anti-war activists.

Initially verbal struggles among activist groups became even more violent, especially when activists began to seize weapons from the Army in 1967.

Suffrage activists, especially Harriet Burton Laidlaw and Rose Livingston, worked in New York City's Chinatown and in other cities to rescue young white and Chinese girls from forced prostitution, and helped pass the Mann Act to make interstate sex trafficking a federal crime.

Protestant ministers and activists returning from exile in England and elsewhere played a significant role, and individual wealthy Protestants were widely suspected of hiring men to do the work in some places, especially Antwerp.

Nonetheless, Butler and Maudling ( who was very popular with backbench MPs at that time ) declined to push for his resignation, especially after a tide of support from Conservative activists around the country.

Since the repeal, BC activists especially the BCCLA have argued repeatedly for a broad understanding of SLAPP and a broad interpretation of judicial powers especially in intervener applications in BC and other common law jurisdictions and when arguing for new legislation to prevent SLAPPs.

He also had environmentalist issues crop up, especially in " The Fear Machine " ( issues # 15-22 ), where John fell in with a travelling community of environmental activists.

The newspaper continues to be produced by a new group of activists involved with Reclaim the Streets, animal rights ( especially hunt saboteur activities ), cooperating with anti-fascists and founders of Movement against the Monarchy.

Civil rights activists were under suspicion in Mississippi, especially those from the North.

Not surprisingly, it is viewed as an adversary by unions ( especially the Michigan Education Association school employees union ), environmental activists, and others.

Using nonviolent strategies, civil rights activists took advantage of emerging national network-news reporting, especially television, to capture national attention.

" Wowser " was a negative term for Christian moralists in Australia, especially activists in temperance groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

It served especially as a meeting place for writers of the Beat Generation in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as one for student activists prior, during, and after the Columbia University protests of 1968.

Traffic from and to the southerly end of the road at Lawrence, spilled onto neighbourhood streets, as the activists predicted, especially Marlee Avenue.

According to a letter by Adolf Berman, the Jewish Secretary of Żegota and head of the Jewish National Committee, dated February 26, 1977, there were other activists who were especially meritorious.

The MSSR's drive towards independence from the USSR was marked by civil strife as conservative activists in the east ( especially in Tiraspol ), as well as Communist party activists in Chişinău worked to keep the MSSR within the Soviet Union.

Despite his stated commitment to returning the country to democracy, Abacha's government was accused of human rights abuses, especially after the hanging of Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa by the Oputa Commission ( only one of several executions of Ogoni activists opposed to the exploitation of Nigerian resources by the multinational petroleum company, Royal Dutch Shell Group ); Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo were jailed for treason, and Wole Soyinka charged in absentia with treason.

* In the debate over capital punishment, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is often cited by anti-death-penalty activists as a " poster child for the death penalty " because his indifference to his victims, especially those who were children, made him appear irredeemably inhuman.

Additionally, Bryant made a good impression on many Republican activists in the state, especially with his willingness to make appearances on the Republican ticket's behalf during the fall campaign after his own defeat.