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  • Newbille wins District 7 City Council seat

    WWBT 12 News | 11/04/2009 04:28 am

    Richmond has a new member on city council tonight. 7th district activist Cynthia Newbille beat out six other candidates.

  • Seniors will march to protest mountaintop mining

    WWBT 12 News | 09/17/2009 08:15 pm

    Associated Press - September 17, 2009 3:15 PM ET CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - An elderly activist opposed to mountaintop removal mining is organizing a 5-day, 25-mile march of senior citizens ...

  • Official: Activist killed outside Mich. school

    WRIC 8 News | 09/11/2009 04:29 pm

    A Michigan school official says a man who was a well-known anti-abortion activist was shot and killed near a high school.

  • 1 tree-sitter to end protest at Massey mine site

    WRIC 8 News | 08/31/2009 04:15 pm

    Associated Press - August 31, 2009 10:15 AM ET PETTRY BOTTOM, W.Va. (AP) - An activist is coming down after spending six days 80 feet up a poplar tree to ...

  • 1 tree-sitter to end protest at Massey mine site

    WWBT 12 News | 08/31/2009 04:15 pm

    Associated Press - August 31, 2009 10:15 AM ET PETTRY BOTTOM, W.Va. (AP) - An activist is coming down after spending six days 80 feet up a poplar tree to ...

  • Dar Williams at Capital Ale House Downtown Music Hall

    | 08/13/2009 02:15 pm

    All too often, it's easy to lose an artist amidst the genre that defines them. Dar Williams is a folk singer/songwriter who stands for much more than such a tightly ...

  • Australia, China at odds over Uighur activist

    AP Lifestyles | 08/11/2009 01:29 pm

    CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An exiled Uighur activist accused China on Tuesday of trying to use its economic clout to dampen criticism of its human rights record, while Australia's foreign ...

  • Exiled Uighur activist say she is 'woman of peace'

    AP Lifestyles | 08/08/2009 01:44 pm

    MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) —An exiled Uighur activist whom Beijing blames for recent deadly riots in China said Saturday that she is a "woman of peace," as she attended an Australian ...

  • Uighur accuses China of inflaming ethnic tension

    AP Lifestyles | 08/05/2009 10:55 am

    MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — China is inflaming ethnic tensions by deceiving its own people about last month's deadly riots in western Xinjiang province, an exiled Uighur activist whom Beijing blames ...

  • 3 more Chinese films pulled at Melbourne festival

    AP Entertainment | 07/30/2009 12:33 pm

    HONG KONG (AP) — Three more Chinese-language films have been pulled from an Australian film festival to protest the planned appearance of an exiled Uighur activist Beijing blames for inciting ...

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