Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saundra Graham, a local activist, stormed the podium, disrupting a speech, and spoke for two hours. She led a group of students, neighbors and anti-war activists, demanding that Harvard stop buying and developing land along the Charles River...
...PSLM, an activist group within the Phillips Brooks House Association, promotes social and economic justice and supports organized labor...
That is the way Russell Mittermeier would like to keep this forest, and all the other forested areas of the world. The president of Conservation International, who is also a first-rate primatologist (A.B. Dartmouth, summa; Ph.D. Harvard), is part scientist, part activist, part barker and part kid. The kid, recently turned 49, is the same one who grew up in the Bronx and Brooklyn, N.Y., under the joint tutelage of a mother interested in the natural world, and Tarzan; Mittermeier continues to collect Tarzan novels and memorabilia. He and Peter A. Seligmann, CI's founder and chief executive, have...
...traits fuse with the activist to create a formidable force for the preservation of forest life, which needs protectors. Nearly 60% of the world's tropical rain forests have been lost, and what remains is under extreme pressure from logging and human population growth. More than 90% of the forests in the U.S. have been logged at least once. And once a forest is cut down, many of the living things it has harbored will be driven into extinction...
From a plane flown by Lighthawk, the activist flying outfit, Phillips scans the scarred forest between Seattle and the Cascades. On land where 500-year-old trees recently grew, she sees bald slopes and cookie-cutter second homes. She is small, white-haired, 56 years old. And full of fire. Her plans? She's starting a nationwide group, Women for Protection of Public Lands. "There aren't enough women environmentalists," she says. "Women can fight without making it personal. Work with the opposition when we can..."--she pauses, smiling--"and sue them when we have...