Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About two dozen student leaders have formed a campus activist group, with the goal of changing an Undergraduate Council they claim is a poor advocate for student concerns...
Purdy also recommended that the councilfacilitate the efforts of student activist groupsthat "demonstrate broad-based support and whoseefforts are legitimately related to the interestsof students...
Jonathan Spampinato, the first new candidate to file papers in this year's city council race, take pride in the fact that he is not a traditional local activist...
That's when Stroupe took over the church. He was 36 years old then, a youthful, activist minister who had campaigned hard for prison reform in Norfolk, Virginia, and elsewhere. But the decrepit physical state of the 62-year-old church and the demoralized yet intransigent spiritual condition of some of the Oakhurst congregation initially startled and depressed him. "The white people who stayed at the church wanted things done their way," Stroupe recalls. "And the blacks weren't talking, but it was clear they wanted some changes." What intrigued Stroupe, and made him stay on, was that the congregation...
Given the unsettled state of the environmental movement and the vengeful mood of its adversaries, a party thrown last weekend at Chico Hot Springs, Montana, was a good bet not to happen. But it did. The Wolf Fund, a tiny activist group set up in 1986 by wildlife biologist Renee Askins, 27, declared victory, gave a few cheers and disbanded. Askins had moved to Moose, Wyoming, in 1981 with the idea of helping get gray wolves re-established in Yellowstone National Park. The process, she thought, might take two or three years. It took a decade more than that...