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Can Web-savvy activist moms change Japan? (AP)

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 file photo, a smartphone shows a list of types and amounts of radiation on a package of Maitake mushrooms which is part of a radiation sampling test  at a Tokyo market. Japan's nuclear crisis has turned a 41-year-old mother into one of a small but growing number of Internet-savvy activist moms. In the days and weeks following the March 11 tsunami, frustration over the sketchy information coming from the government about the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant drove many Japanese to Twitter and alternative media webcasts. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)AP – Japan’s nuclear crisis has turned Mizuho Nakayama into one of a small but growing number of Internet-savvy activist moms.


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Sonia Pierre, human rights activist, dies at 48

Sonia Pierre, a human rights activist who advocated for Dominicans of Haitian descent, died Sunday of a heart attack. She was 48.

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Noted gay activist died in Indiana stage collapse

One of the victims of the stage collapse in Indianapolis was a much-beloved Bronx-raised gay activist who was planning to tie the knot next year.

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APNewsBreak: Papers shed light on activist probe (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2010 file photo, Jess Sundin, of Minneapolis, speaks during a rally to protest FBI searches conducted at her home and homes of several other anti-war activists in Minneapolis, Minn. Documents federal agents left behind during a September raid of an anti-war activist's home shed some light on the evolution of an investigation into apparent connections between local activists and radical groups in Colombia and the Middle East. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig, File)AP – Documents federal agents left behind during a September raid of an anti-war activist’s home shed some light on the evolution of an investigation into apparent connections between local activists and radical groups in Colombia and the Middle East.


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30 killed in Syria protests, activist says (AP)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian students shout supportive slogans to Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, as he arrives to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier during Martyrs day in Kasiyoun mountain in Damascus, Syria, Friday, May 6, 2011. Syrian activists say security forces are taking strict measures around the country as anti-regime protesters prepare for a new day of demonstrations. (AP Photo/SANA) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP – A leading human rights activist says Syrian security forces have killed 30 people during widespread protests.


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Rights activist: Syrian authorities detain dozens (AP)

In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired Saturday April 23, 2011,  by The Associated Press, Syrian anti-government protesters carry the coffin of an activist who was killed on Friday during his funeral procession in Quaboun near Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 23, 2011. Syrian security forces fired on tens of thousands of mourners during funeral processions Saturday, killing several people following the deadliest day of the uprising against authoritarian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo)AP – Syrian security forces detained dozens of opposition activists and others in raids Sunday launched less than a week after President Bashar Assad’s regime abolished emergency laws used for decades to crush dissent, a human rights activist said.


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Activist: Syrian protesters attack Baath building (AP)

Anti-Syrian government protesters, shout slogans as they protest after Friday prayers at Omayyad mosque, in Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 25, 2011.  Thousands of Syrians took to the streets Friday demanding reforms and mourning dozens of protesters who were killed during a violent, week long crackdown that has brought extraordinary pressure on the country's autocratic regime, activists and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)AP – A prominent Syrian rights activist says protesters in the coastal town of Latakia have set fire to offices of the ruling Baath party.


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