Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleasantly surprised with the [University]. It was quite activist, quite aggressive in its stand, perhaps even more so than in previous years," said Ali Ahsan '99, who has served for two years on the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR). Ahsan is also a Crimson editor...
...unintentional, but it was certainly striking: after announcing two weeks ago that he has been afflicted with Parkinson's Disease for the past seven years, the 37-year-old actor seemed as healthy and funny as ever--and like the real Superman, Christopher Reeve, who has been a vocal activist for the rights of the paralyzed, he was joining a public fight against a disease which has struck him so personally...
Cabot House roommates John A. Burton '01 and Scott A. Resnick '01 say they want to put the Undergraduate Council in philosophical reverse and return to a more activist stance...
TREE HUGGER As of Dec. 10, environmental activist Julia Hill, also known as Butterfly, will have spent a full year perched in the branches of a Northern California redwood dubbed Luna. Butterfly's sit-in, a protest against logging by the Pacific Lumber Co., was reported in our May 11, 1998, issue. Last month the California Department of Forestry suspended Pacific Lumber's timber operating license for repeated violations of the state's forest-practice rules. But since the citation does not prevent Pacific Lumber from hiring outside contractors, Butterfly believes Luna and surrounding trees are still at risk...
While Reuther was a social activist, Hoffa focused on the exercise of power. The U.A.W. was organizing auto factories that had thousands of workers; Hoffa focused on small trucking companies with a simple two-step campaign. He would threaten to bomb employers' trucks if they didn't enroll in his union. Then he carried out the threat. It got results. His organizers took a cut of the dues and initiation fees of every new member. It was a franchise scheme that attracted Mafiosi and created a feudal structure of warlords...