Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During his early years at PUSH, Jackson's leadership abilities shined through, and he was able to mobilize the Chicago black community so that it would respond quickly and decisively to his calls for action...
...hadn't known about it ahead of time," she says. "But the speeches being given on the steps...were encouraging people to take this action...
...Richard E. Hyland is now a law professor at Rutgers University. In 1969, he created order out of the chaos students had created inside University Hall. Soon after the students had ejected the administration, Hyland spurred the creation of administrative units among the protestors--food, sanitation and political action committees were soon formed. They were loyal to their pledge of "democracy" and voted to not use violence in the case of a bust and to not use marijuana...
According to a current Spee member, the graduates took the action to reinforce a no-guest policy implemented April...
...Zinn says it is unfair to expect student protests of the same magnitude of those in the '60s without a single, unifying cause to stir action...