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...Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change,” will finance student fellowships, visiting scholars, and curriculum development in social activism. Gleitsman, who made his fortune by collecting films for resale to television, sold his distribution company in 1986 and began giving away $100,000 awards to social activists each year. Gleitsman died last year at age 76. These awards, known as the Gleitsman International and Citizen Activist awards, will now be handed down by the Center for Public Leadership. The awards have stirred occasional controversy—recipients include Ralph Nader and Jack Kevorkian. Center for Public Leadership...
Cutler is ranked 28th on the list, between activist blogger Xavier Von Erck and Iggy, the 6-month-old dog adopted by TV show host Ellen DeGeneres...
LETTER FROM A CITIZEN ACTIVIST...
Even at Harvard, critics of Iran and other undemocratic regimes in the Muslim and Arab world fear for their lives and liberty. In contrast, the worst that an anti-Israel activist like Matory has to worry about is a letter to the editor in The Harvard Crimson expressing an opposing view...
...India's English-language media between June and September of 2007. The group claims that six suicides and three attempted suicides in the same period can be blamed on harassment, which they say is widespread at engineering and medical colleges - mostly, although not exclusively, among male students. Anti-ragging activist Shivam Vij, who launched the website stopragging.org in 2005, claims that nine out of ten students in India are subject to ragging, but that most cases go unreported...