Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekend is oriented towards fostering and sustaining effective student activism. The conference aims to integrate a range of activist skill trainings, issue seminars, educational sessions and group discussions with the personal experiences each participant brings to ACT '97. Many students will have experience with political organizing, and many others will bring an untested passion for change. Many will arrive simply to discover a way to contribute to a much needed campus and community political voice on these issues. ACT '97 aims to develop viable strategies for organizing from these perspectives...
...years, preferably for a car-friendly location amid the strip malls and burger joints out of town. "They met with us on a Tuesday," says stunned city-council member Caron Cooper. "On Wednesday there was an ad in the paper soliciting bids for land." Dan Glick, a community activist, is peeved: "Those people gave us more say on whether the Elvis stamp would show the new Elvis or the old Elvis than they did on the future of our town...
...head. Four months after he and other Chinese visitors had their photograph taken with the President, Chung was pressing Clinton's personal secretary for a letter of introduction from Clinton for use in Beijing that would help him negotiate the release of Harry Wu, a Chinese-American human-rights activist imprisoned for two months on espionage charges. Although he never received the presidential seal, Chung got the next best thing: a letter from the chairman of the President's political party, Don Fowler, thanking Chung for "being a friend and great supporter of the D.N.C." and wishing him success...
...after a decade, Glaser quit, a millionaire yearning for his activist past. "I wanted to put up my periscope and regain some perspective on the world," he says. You see, if Gates was Glaser's business role model, Cesar Chavez was his muse. A grape boycotter from way back, Glaser wrote a college-newspaper column called "What's Left" and has always been passionate about bottom-up grass-roots movements. Money, as far as Glaser is concerned, can be damned. "I'm not interested in the purely economic end of this anymore than Pavarotti is interested in getting paid...
...deadly dose of narcotics to patients who wanted to die. Most of the doctors who provided such aid, says Slome, did so from one to three times. One doctor admitted to 100 instances, a tally far outstripping that of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. (Kevorkian, of course, practices a more activist suicide assistance...