Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talking to a divestiture activist at a Cabor House dinner last night about the protest against the South African Consul General. I expressed my concern that the student movement in which he takes part is turning from non-violence and mature politics to violence. He assured me that no one tried to interfere with the Consul General's activities or attempted to do him any harm. Not knowing the details of the case, I was effectively silenced Today I read that students rushed him and tried to hold him, that they prevented his departure by lying down in front...
...filmmakers whose points of view, demand the isolation and intensity of the movie-house experience. One such story is The Times of Harvey Milk, winner of this year's Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Its plot--all-American guy shoots the mayor of San Francisco and a gay-activist supervisor, then goes to trial pleading that junk food made him do it--was as farfetched and compelling as that of any paranoiac political thriller. Herewith, reports on three more documentaries that transcend the newsreel...
...presidency: that vigorous, ebullient presidential leadership would naturally aim at expanding the role of the Federal Government (and the Chief Magistrate), and that any President of contrary outlook would necessarily be a cold, crabbed type or at best likably lazy. Franklin Roosevelt was the exemplar of the bold, joyous activist, Coolidge and Hoover the chill naysayers (so the academic stereotype went), Ike the lazy nice guy. So here came Reagan, not overworking himself but relishing the job and the power, using it with great gusto and skill to shrink the role of Government and of the President...
MOST OF these portraits are of the regime's opponents, a diverse and determined constituency who can legitimately bear the mantle of "freedom fighters." One such anti-apartheid activist is Black photojournalist Peter Magubane, whose work includes photographs of police brutality during Black ghetto uprisings...
...fundamentalist Protestantism at the heart of the civil theology of apartheid, increasing numbers of churchmen have been hard pressed to come to terms with the very un-Christian effects of that policy. Consequently, Black and white clergymen alike have often been outspoken opponents of apartheid. One white anti-apartheid activist notes, "We have a very sound saying here in South Africa. We say a Christian here is either going to jail, or going to hell...