Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burn center and trauma ward; or, most important, its commitment to the uninsured poor, who make up 40% of its customers. Already furious at California's anti-immigrant Proposition 187, local leaders see Reed's plan as a pursuit of the same policy by different means. Said Chicano activist Agustin Cebada: "This is genocide against our community...
Newtie isn't the only one in the Gingrich family with literary aspirations. Gay activist CANDACE GINGRICH, his half-sister, has retained a literary agent and plans to write her "kind of unique" life story. As for her half-brother's books, she says she doesn't plan to read them...
Eight of the nine incumbent city councillors are expected to vie for the nine open seats this fall. Jonathan S. Myers earlier this month announced his retirement from the council. Other candidates include current school committee member Henrietta S. Davis and Republican and gay rights activist Jonathan T. Spampinato...
...have wasted 25 years trying to get minorities in through affirmative action, which has not worked," says activist Saundra Graham, a former City Council member. "It has worked for women, it has not worked for people of color. That says to me there's only one issue, and that's racism...
...political problem, primarily," says Lester P. Lee Jr., a rent control activist who teaches American history at Wheelock College in Boston. "It's one of patronage. Patronage is when it flows primarily through a kinship network...