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The activists claim it was not an invention of Monsanto but rather bio-piracy, because the virus-resistant plants originated in India and were registered in international seed banks ; they further claimed that conventional breeding methods were used to transfer the virus resistance genes from an Indian melon to other melons and that European law prohibits patents on conventional breeding.
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A very small number of scientists, and a much larger number of environmental activists, claim that Earth's biosphere is consciously manipulating the climate in order to make conditions more conducive to life.
Democratic activists claim central government authorities closely monitor their e-mails and Internet use.
AIDS activists allege redlining of health insurance against the LGBT community in response to the AIDS crisis, though no evidence exists to support this claim.
Though not necessarily Green anarchists, activists have used the names Animal Rights Militia, Justice Department and Revolutionary Cells among others, to claim responsibility for openly violent attacks.
Some activists and scholars claim that along with globalization a new type of political movement emerges that is not merely international or single-issue focused, but is characterized with global approach.
In 2003 activists from MindFreedom International staged a 21-day hunger strike, protesting at a perceived unjustified biomedical focus and challenging APA to provide evidence of the widespread claim that mental disorders are due to chemical imbalances in the brain.
Human rights activists claim that Russian police use torture techniques to extract false confessions from detainees.
While DEA agents claim they are merely upholding federal law and only going after " major traffickers ," advocates claim the DEA targets the most prominent political activists with their raids.
Combined with the claim of some historical linguists and anthropologists that the original homeland of the Aztecan peoples was located in the southwestern United States, Aztlán, in this sense, became a symbol for mestizo activists who believe they have a legal and primordial right to the land.
Pro choice activists like Marilyn Wilson, former executive director of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League claim, " Illegal abortions were common, but often of poor safety.
* The number on a button commonly worn by feminist activists in the 1970s ; this was based on the claim that a woman earned 59 cents to an equally qualified man's dollar
Animal rights activists claim that breeding dogs in order to sell them is unethical, criticizing breeders who they believe are more concerned with profit than the animals ' welfare.
Transsexual rights activists claim that the festival's intention excludes them.
Due to the organization's being established by Andrew McKelvey ( the founder of Monster. com ), a former member of the board of directors of Handgun Control, Inc. and the primary founder of the Million Mom March, gun rights activists frequently made the claim that AGS had all the appearances and affiliations expected of an anti-gun organization.
The activists readily admitted the attack in court but were found not guilty due to their defence of claim of right.
Some Cornish political activists claim to have revived the Stannary Parliament since 1974, along with the right to veto British legislation.
Political activists in modern times claim Arizmendi was also a patriot with liberal thoughts without providing historical conceptual verification.
Some human rights activists claim that at least 80 % of the hostages were killed by indiscriminate Russian fire.
The activists claim South Korean military troops injured over 200 people and rounded up 500 more.
Critics of the labor rights movement claim that regulation promoted by labor rights activists may limit opportunities for work.
However there remain some activists on the Palestinian side who claim that there are still some positive signs on the Palestinian side, and that Israel should use these to cultivate some positive interactions with the Palestinians, even in spite of Hamas's basic opposition to the existence of the Jewish State.
Some pro-life activists, however, claim Alito's confirmation as a victory for their cause.
The BBC reported that many Berber activists blamed the government for his death and rejected its claim that Islamists were responsible.
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In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.
In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.
It was commonly used during the mid-1960s by Mexican-American activists, who, in attempt to reassert their civil rights, tried to rid the word of its polarizing negative connotation by reasserting a unique ethnic identity and political consciousness, proudly identifying themselves as Chicanos.
This was partially a continuation of the condemnations of Confucianism by intellectuals and activists in the early 20th Century as a cause of the ethnocentric close-mindedness and refusal of the Qing Dynasty to modernize that led to the tragedies that befell China in the 19th Century.
According to Massiter, Newton believed that CND was controlled by extreme left-wing activists and that Bruce Kent might be a crypto-communist, but Massiter found no evidence to support either opinion.
Although the counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed VI, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.
She was one of the activists who took over Berkeley park in the People's Park demonstration, summer 1972.
Within psychiatry the term anti-psychiatry was often used and now British activists prefer the term critical psychiatry.
Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.
In 1981, as the Labour Party tore itself apart in a civil war, Dewar was almost deselected in his constituency by hard-left activists, but he fought off the move.
From 1980, Thompson was the most prominent intellectual of the revived movement for nuclear disarmament, revered by activists throughout the world.
While largely left out of the thrust for increasing rights of citizens, as the question was left indeterminate in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, activists such as Pauline Léon and Théroigne de Méricourt agitated for full citizenship for women.
In Parliament, the bill was adopted with the support of the Social Democrats, the Agrarian League, and some rightist activists and other non-socialists eager for Finnish sovereignty.
From 1970 activists protested the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and in 1974 it was replaced with a category of " sexual orientation disturbance " then " ego-dystonic homosexuality ", which was also deleted, although " gender identity disorder " remains.
" When the inevitable deaths occurred, he exploited them for the maximum effect, turning the street fighter Horst Wessel, who was killed at his home by enemy political activists, into a martyr and hero.
But 28 years later, in an appearance on MSNBC television, Falwell said he was not troubled by reports that the nominee for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts ( whose appointment was confirmed by the U. S. Senate ) had done volunteer legal work for homosexual rights activists on the case of Romer v. Evans.
Based in Paris, the paper had been established and was run by many activists connected to the revolutionary socialist League of the Just, which would come to be better known as the Communist League within a few years.
The forerunner of the League of Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, was formed by peace activists William Randal Cremer and Frédéric Passy in 1889.
Retirement of the old activists was presented in media as “ inflow of new blood into the Democratic Left Alliance ”.
In late 1960s and early 1970s, student and faculty activists protested against the Vietnam War and MIT's defense research .< ref > The Union of Concerned Scientists was founded on March 4, 1969 during a meeting of faculty members and students seeking to shift the emphasis on military research towards environmental and social problems.
Chomsky's response to the film was mixed ; in a published conversation with Achbar and several activists, he stated that film simply doesn't communicate his message, leading people to believe that he is the leader of some movement that they should join.
Although a counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.
MK was formed as a pressure group in 1951, and contained as members activists and politicians from a number of political parties.
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