Word: activistic
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...Moscow did not publicly respond to his overture. Earlier today, the Russian defense minister said that his forces would "advance deep into the town with a view to confiscating weapons and eradicating gangs." Meanwhile, the Chechnya offensive seems to be finally sparking some internal protest: Long-time human rights activist Yelena Bonner resigned from President Boris Yeltsin's human rights commission, saying the military's actions marked Russia's return to total
During the evening several club members urged the AAA to establish a clearer view of its social and activist role...
Since we have been attempting to explain in our lectures and discussion sessions the complex interplay between the pragmatic activist mainstream sector of African-American intelligentsia on the one hand, and the Black solidarist or Afrocentrist sector on the other hand, my attention was immediately drawn to articles in The Crimson on the Black Students Association's (BSA) unfortunate invitation to Professor Tony Martin, whom I consider a xenophibic Afrocentrist and also to the BSA's proposed Kwanzaa Rituals celebration ("Martin Speaks at BSA Event," news story, Dec. 2, 1994; "Martin Speech Tests Hillel-BSA Relationship," news story...
...here at Harvard College what I believe to be a more viable mode of Black-individual and Black-group metamorphosis in our complex post-Capitalist (e.g., Hi-Tech Capitalist, Global Capitalist, etc.) era. Namely--translate your strong cathartic appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against women, male neglect of family obligations, runaway teenage births, nihilistic violence by macho males, etc.). The simplistic catharsis of xenophobic, Afrocentrist discourse is just plain...
This long-haul task--defined in activist uplift terms, not cathartic terms of Afro-Romanticism--is, of course, less symbolically stirring and solidaristically glamorous than your Kwanzaa Rituals celebration proposal, that's for certain. But from my vantage point as a pragmatic activist and leftist member of the Black intelligentsia, I can say without fear of contradiction that Rev. Rivers's kind of humanistic and activist outreach program will produce greater modern transformation and benefits for our massive Black poor population (32 percent of Black households, compared to 29 percent of Latino households) and 15 percent of white households...