Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sign-up sheets were available after the speech and question-and-answer session, providing a way for those interested in getting involved in Appleseed or other activist organizations to receive more information...
...longtime employee of the City of Cambridge, Giacobbe has been an activist in local causes like the Eviction Free Zone. She wants to institute rent control, prevent overdevelopment (especially by universities) and promote city employee's rights...
Williamson has been a member of local Democratic groups, tenants' rights groups, building preservation societies and other local activist groups. He wants to restore and extend affordable housing, put a one-year moratorium on commercial real-estate developments, renegotiate the "payment in lieu of taxes" agreement with Harvard, and look for a new city manager...
...weekend Falwell apologized for such statements. The occasion for Falwell's soul searching was an unprecedented meeting between 200 of Falwell's supporters and 200 gay people of faith. Falwell agreed to break bread with them after several talks with the Rev. Mel White, a 60-year-old gay activist who runs Soulforce, an ecumenical gay group. White and Falwell used to be pals; White, a former filmmaker and writer for conservative causes, ghostwrote Falwell's autobiography. But they lost touch after December 1991, when White, tired of fighting his true nature and incensed by one of Falwell's fund...
...event was co-sponsored by a number of campus groups, including other organizations that focus on issues of sexuality, as well as cultural, ethnic, public service and other activist groups...