Word: activist
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...Keepers declares it has no political agenda. Nevertheless, it makes no attempt to hide its allies on the religious right. As early as 1992, when the group was without a constituency or a mailing list, it received $10,000 in critical assistance from James Dobson, a psychologist and Christian activist who produces the most widely heard Christian daily radio program and is closely allied with the influential religious right Family Research Council lobby in Washington. Since then, Dobson has given Promise Keepers strategic publicity on his radio show, has spoken at a 1993 Promise Keepers rally in Boulder, Colo...
...hope this will serve as a turn for PBHA to be more activist-oriented and not to have the activist and service communities so completely disjointed as they are now," Morgan said...
...year. Some of the proceeds went into city coffers and to charities, but much more made its way to the settlers. Moskowitz prefers to donate to specific projects rather than finance organizations blindly. "He says he wants to see results on the ground," says Yisrael Medad, a settler activist. According to some sources, as much as $18 million has come from his foundation to underwrite the budgets of settler organizations, build college dorms in the territories and support an Orthodox yeshiva critical of peace proposals. It even brought in American students to bolster Israeli morale during Scud-missile attacks...
...council voted to approve five of 12 provisions in the so-called Pitkin Petition, named after its author, community activist John R. Pitkin of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association...
Panelist Gloria Steinem, the renowned women's activist and writer, said that Gilligan has had a profound impact on gender studies...