Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Panelist Bong Hwam Kim, an activist and member of the L.A. Black-Korean Alliance, noted that Korean Americans sustained 40 percent of the damage, although they comprise only 2 percent of the city's population...
Louisa Solane, owner of Grolier Bookstore on Plympton Street, took the stage later in the evening to describe her relation to Ginsberg as a fellow activist and poet...
...naming the army chief of staff to head the government. The White House demanded that Mobutu step down and go into exile, effectively ending U.S. support of the African dictator. "Mobutuism is about to become a creature of history," White House press secretary Mike McCurry said. Tshisekedi, an opposition activist whom the president reluctantly appointed just a week ago, was forced into a vehicle and driven away by six soldiers as he arrived to assume the post. A longtime foe of Mobutu, he had been given the post in an effort to stave off Kabila's advancing rebel forces, which...
...ANGELES: Richard Riordan sailed to re-election at mayor of Los Angeles Tuesday night after a colorful but one-sided contest against former radical and present-day activist Tom Hayden. At 57, Hayden wears the dark suit and close-cropped haircut appropriate to his position as a California state senator, but TIME's James Willwerth notes that voters apparently couldn't dismiss the mental image of Hayden as a 1960s radical: disheveled, angry, defiant. In the campaign, Hayden proved that he hadn't lost his passion. He attacked Riordan for his record on racial healing and environmental issues. Meanwhile, Riordan...
...supporters' volunteer work. These scandals are a reminder that some politics is global, not local. For the hundreds of hour I volunteered to the campaign, I didn't make nearly as much difference as Al Gore could have in ten seconds of conversation with Chinese donors. As an activist, this is a disconcerting and unsettling thought...