Word: activist
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Where do you go when you need someone to rally 200 million people? An ex-President, perhaps, or a former dictator? Whenever the environmental movement needs someone to gather the troops worldwide, it turns to a tall, understated activist who rides his bicycle to work, wears flannel shirts and has a unique ability to herd the masses toward a common goal. His name is Denis Hayes, but you can call him Mr. Earth Day. He launched the first one in April 1970, turned it into a global festival for Earth Day 1990 and is looking ahead to the biggest...
...activist settled down and entered Harvard Law School with an eye to influencing public policy, but a fateful assignment his first semester changed his life. Required to be an intern in a government office, Hayes called Gaylord Nelson, then a liberal U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, and volunteered to organize a series of teach-ins across the country to call attention to the environment. Energized by the memories of the ravaged forests of his youth, he dropped out of Harvard and devoted his time to organizing rallies, street demonstrations and trash cleanups. It all culminated with the first Earth Day, when...
Former Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Myrth York and homeless activist Macy DeLong led a discussion on homelessness in Boylston Hall's Ticknor Lounge last night...
Lorraine Padilla, now a community activist and member of the Kings and Queens, said crime used to make her feel powerful...
NSLA, an association of campus labor movements across the nation, would help students at other universities through the birth-pains of forming activist organizations of their...