Word: activistic
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...Spoken Word Society member Okechukwu W. Iweala ’06 had performed a sprawling spoken word piece, and a pair of sibling Harvard graduates now working as independent journalists for Democracy Now! encouraged the onlooking students to persist in their activist efforts...
Other speakers included a pair of unionized janitors, a representative from the Radcliffe Union of Students and members of the Socialist Alternative—a national organization which shares many of its Cambridge members with Harvard’s No Layoffs Campaign, an activist group that has been protesting the University’s job cuts since last summer...
...disagree with Duvalier meant death. The chaos he created still stifles Haitian life," says Vernet, 49, a Haitian-American activist. In 1968 Vernet and his family fled Haiti and moved to New York City. In the aftermath of the rebel takeover of the Haitian government earlier this year, Vernet is seeking to sponsor democracy in his mother country by championing political participation in the U.S. Haitians make up one of the largest immigrant groups in New York City without a City Council member from its ranks. Vernet's organization, Initiatives Democratiques, has set up voter-registration drives in New York...
...forthcoming Gulf War-based remake of The Manchurian Candidate) behind him and, it would seem from just glancing that immense composite list, little time to dwell on the historical particulars and hardships of tracking down footage for a documentary. Yet, in his portrait of Jean Dominique, a Haitian activist unknown to most American ears, Demme takes aim at a slightly obscure topic and turns up a final product that not only serves as a fascinating narrative biography but an excellent debriefing of Haiti’s turbulent political history...
Stills has been a political activist throughout his forty-year career. He appeared with Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmates David Crosby and Graham Nash at the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, and has helped raise money for a wide range of causes, such as Miami hurricane relief...