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From the Ted Talk by Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest

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A few years later, I was invited to testify before Congress about my _________, and I told lawmakers that, while everybody is talking about going green, some people are risking their lives to ______ forests and to stop oil _________. They're __________ putting their bodies on the line between the whalers' harpoons and the whales. These are ________ people, like these protesters in Italy who spontaneously climbed over barbed wire ______ to rescue beagles from animal testing. And these movements have been incredibly effective and popular, so in 1985, their opponents made up a new word, eco-terrorist, to _____ how we view them. They just made it up.

Solution


  1. fences
  2. defend
  3. physically
  4. pipelines
  5. reporting
  6. everyday
  7. shift

Original Text


A few years later, I was invited to testify before Congress about my reporting, and I told lawmakers that, while everybody is talking about going green, some people are risking their lives to defend forests and to stop oil pipelines. They're physically putting their bodies on the line between the whalers' harpoons and the whales. These are everyday people, like these protesters in Italy who spontaneously climbed over barbed wire fences to rescue beagles from animal testing. And these movements have been incredibly effective and popular, so in 1985, their opponents made up a new word, eco-terrorist, to shift how we view them. They just made it up.

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