Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan, Buckley has lost his competitive urge. The last lap of the 20th century may provide a new liberal challenger, but until then we are left with a small irony. Reagan, the former actor, entered the White House at about the same time that Buckley, the political activist, began changing into an entertainer...
...prominent author and animal rights activist, Peter Singer, calls this bias `speciesism' and maintains that it is a form of prejudice no less reprehensible than racism or sexism. This is a fact which we should acknowledge, as speciesism is responsible for the suffering and death of more than 60 million animals every year through research alone...
Incidentally, as for the positive effects of such protest on the University administration, the takeover resulted in the Resolution and Commitee on Rights and Responsibilities, two of the biggest mockeries of procedural justice ever seen at Harvard. Yes, John Yoo, this "erstwhile activist who favors army surplus clothing and an earring" is afraid of things like arrest, beatings and death. Is that a surprise? Is it something to lament...
...small voice can barely be heard in this University, much less budge its decisionmakers. Activist opposition similarly has little effect on actual policy at Harvard. The only way the workers are going to have their voices heard--and more importantly, acted upon--is to get union representation, backing by an institutional power strong enough to go head to head with the Harvard administration. A union legally acknowledged as Harvard's equal cannot be ignored...
EVERY now and then, of course they try to prove their activist heritage by blockading dinners or shouting down speakers. But then they shift the debate all of a sudden to freedom of speech and freedom of movement. If today's activists want to play it safe, avoid arrest and wear their ties to meetings with the Corporations, they can. But they cannot play the radical protester at the same time. Schizophrenia is unhealthy for anyone--including activists...