Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That would entail making the council a source of information on campus issues, subsidizing ad hoc activist groups with the council's grant money and using the council itself to take up issues such as ethnic studies, Purdy says...
...Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) is debating a platform with a broad, activist, liberal agenda. Some of the plates described on a provisional copy and in interviews call...
...remarks of keynote speaker Winona LaDuke '80, a Native American activist, drew a standing ovation and several minutes of applause...
...Baker, 31, a veteran Greenpeace activist, starts the Zodiac's 15-h.p. motor, and Matthew Whiting climbs aboard from the ketch. Whiting, 36, is lately of the French Foreign Legion; for that matter, he is lately also of the British army, the Spanish Foreign Legion and the University of Hertfordshire, where he studies literature. The two men, both British, carry green fatigues in waterproof bags. They have short haircuts. Whiting, burly, with a broken nose, speaks fluent rough-and-tumble French that he learned in the legion while serving on Mururoa. Baker, a lean, hard mountain climber with a seen...
...first taste of radical politics, springing antisegregationist Freedom Riders from Southern jails. The experience changed his life and led to a client list that could serve as an American Dissidents' Hall of Fame: Martin Luther King Jr., Lenny Bruce, Al Sharpton, flag burner Gregory Johnson, Indian activist Leonard Peltier, Attica prison rioters, Malcolm X and-decades later-Malcolm's daughter Qubilah Shabazz. Kunstler's combative defense of the Chicago Seven brought him four years' worth of contempt citations (none of it served). His use of courtrooms as high- profile political platforms often worked to client's and cause's good...