Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frustrated with the Administration's seeming indifference, 24 U.S. unions will call for a boycott of Haitian goods this week. At the Washington headquarters of TransAfrica, a group that lobbied successfully on behalf of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, activist Randall Robinson began the third week of a hunger strike to protest the U.S. policy of repatriating Haitian refugees. He saw nothing to please him about Clinton's Haiti stance. "The President is responsible for what constitutes a disaster in Haiti," he said. "The longer he waits, the more people...
...Clintonophobia" is an abnormal condition that strikes many conservatives today and manifests itself in the classic four Ds of their politics: denial, delay, derision and division. Unable to bring substance to the pressing issues of the day, conservatives see in the Clintons their worst fear: an activist Administration with a progressive social agenda that won't retreat from its goals...
Unlike Montgomery, 40 miles distant, Chilton has never been an activist hotbed, perhaps because this peach-farming flatland is only 12% African American. "The blacks pretty much blend in with us," says Judy Smith, who owns a Sno Biz shaved-ice stand. "Every once in a while they get rowdy, but they're not quite as bad as they are elsewhere." Be that as it may, in 1985 a black political group called the Alabama Democratic Conference brought a voting-rights suit against Chilton and some surrounding municipalities. Nearby towns opted to create black-majority districts, but Chilton's highly...
...wake of the Columbia strike, SDSorganizers grew bolder. And college students,seeing their administrations' willingness to useviolence against them, joined activist groups insteadily increasing numbers...
...protesters of 1969--in their opposition to the Vietnam War, their demands for severance of the University's ties with the Reserve Officers Training Corps and their call for the establishment of an Afro-American studies department--defined a historic, activist era at Harvard...