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		<title>Work on Waste USA, Inc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1980s, Paul Connett, a chemist at St. Lawrence University, his wife Ellen, and other environmental activists in upstate New York formed Work on Waste USA to oppose the incineration of solid waste materials. Arguing that incineration was a major source of air pollution, pumping dioxin, mercury, cadmium, and lead into the atmosphere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop, Sam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new medical waste incinerator for New York city hospitals became the focal point of drawn-out controversy in the 1990s. After proposals to place the facility in Rockland County and downtown Manhattan were scotched, a site in the South Bronx was selected. Even before it opened in 1991, the Bronx-Lebanon incinerator touched off fierce opposition. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=5956</link>
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		<title>Roxbury Action Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Roxbury Action Program and Black Panther Party of Boston were both founded in the Roxbury section of Boston following the riots of 1968. RAP pursued community revitalization through Black self-determination and enjoyed success in its housing initiatives and in providing social services ranging from support for Black businesses to Black draft counseling, health and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=5945</link>
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		<title>Hollister, Leonard D.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born in Denver, Colorado, in October 1884, Leonard D. Hollister was a collector of Southwestern Native American pottery and the son of Uriah S. Hollister, a prominent executive with the Continental Oil Company and author of The Navajo and His Blanket (1903), an early work on Navajo textiles. The Hollister collection is a diverse assemblage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Construyamos Juntos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In May 1985, a group of activists in Western Massachusetts opposed to the interventionist U.S. foreign policy of the Reagan era formed a construction brigade to assist with basic human needs and express solidarity with the people of Central America. Modeled on the Venceremos Brigade, Construyamos Juntos, Building Peace of Nicaragua, raised over $20,000 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D&#8217;Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist, Gabriele D&#8217;Annunzio enjoyed a flamboyant career in international affairs after the First World War when he raised a small army and seized the port of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia). Failing in his attempts to annex his territory to Italy, D&#8217;Annunzio reigned as Duce over the micro-state for over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=5925</link>
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		<title>Powell, James R.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A devoted reader of newspaper cartoon strips, Jim Powell began collecting Peanuts cartoon books in the mid-1970s, prompted by obtaining two pure-bred beagles for his son. The Powell cartoon book collection consists of 419 mass market paperback copies of popular cartoon books, representing the work of well-known cartoonists such as Charles M. Schultz, Johnny Hart, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=5916</link>
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		<title>Bowman, Mitzi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, Mitzi Bowman and her husband Pete were stalwarts of the progressive community in Connecticut, and tireless activists in the movements for social justice, peace, and the environment. Shortly after their marriage in 1966, the Bowman&#8217;s settled in Milford, Conn., where Pete worked as an engineer. In close collaboration, the couple became ardent opponents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lerner, Steve, 1946-</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For decades, the writer Steve Lerner has been a significant contributor to public awareness of the issues surrounding environmental justice. Immersed in the environmental movement through his work as research director at Commonweal, a health and environment research institute founded with his brother Michael in 1976, Lerner earned wide recognition for his first book, Eco-Pioneers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=5866</link>
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		<title>Henderson, Elizabeth, 1943-</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A farmer, activist, and writer, Elizabeth Henderson has exerted an enormous influence on the movement for organic and sustainable agriculture since the 1970s. Although Henderson embarked on an academic career after completing a doctorate at Yale on the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1974, by 1980, she abandoned academia for Unadilla Farm in Gill, Mass., [...]]]></description>
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