Word: activists
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Instead, the questions are--almost without exception--about how Wellstone thinks his vision can be made palatable to the American people, and about what he believes can be done within the academy to advance his cause. When a self-proclaimed "activist" stands up and says, "If everyone in this room would just get together...we could ignite others," I feel like I'm at a meeting of the Objectivist club and my exuberance about Wellstone suddenly morphs into a kind of skepticism...
...President closed with a number of domestic and policy goals, such as reducing crime and drugs, preserving Medicare, and maintaining an activist foreign policy. "Clinton presented a pretty standard laundry list, which is what these speeches are," notes Tumulty...
...White House official is worried that Trent Lott's Republicans are setting up two pins to knock one down. More likely, the G.O.P. will decide just to rough up both candidates a bit. If so, Herman has at least one advantage: one of her first accomplishments as a labor activist some 25 years ago was finding jobs for unemployed teenagers from Mobile--at a shipyard in nearby Pascagoula, Mississippi, where Lott's dad was a pipefitter...
Students had an opportunity to discuss their reactions to the site-visits at a dinner last night with Marshall Ganz '64-'92, a longtime labor organizer and civil rights activist who is working on a Ph.D. in sociology...
Ganz, who teaches a Harvard course on community organizing, spoke about his experiences working with agricultural activist Cesar Chavez and other prominent agitators. He urged the students to seek their own career paths, rather than following the ones society prescribed...