Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Panelists each addressed questions about "how to get students to care," "how to weave common threads [among various activist groups]," and "[whether we are] in an activist period right...
Offering words of advice for those assembled, Eaton suggested "marrying an activist if you are an activist" because of the potential for cooperation and mutual learning...
Redmond said she has found that most of her activist peers are social studies concentrators. The sociology and women's studies departments also attract a disproportionate number of activists, according to the panel...
...important issue here is, does Microsoft have a right to compete and keep competing?" says Robert Tracinski, the editor of a magazine called the Intellectual Activist and the organizer of the the protest. Yes, the CMDM admits to having recently received some money from Microsoft, but Tracinski points out that he and his friends have been hardcore laissez-faire forever...
Five years ago, an eco-activist and self-taught electronics whiz named Stephen Dunifer founded Free Radio Berkeley, trekking up into the hills behind the city and transmitting out of his backpack one night a week with home-built equipment. Soon, with the help of volunteers, Dunifer, 46, was selling kits around the country, enabling anyone who could raise a few hundred dollars to launch a station with a transmitter powered by fewer watts than a light bulb, often covering a radius of only a few miles. Dunifer co-edited a book, Seizing the Airwaves, and mounted...