Word: activists
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...hope she's the candidate because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn't." JERRY FALWELL, evangelist and right-wing activist, on a possible Clinton run for U.S. President. He later apologized for his "totally tongue-in-cheek" remark...
Being an environmental activist in China "is sometimes very lonely work," says Wen Bo. The nation's cities choke with smog and many rivers are putrid, yet "people in China just don't think there's a need to protect the environment. Even when I was a student putting up posters for a campus environmental group, people would look at me strangely. They couldn't understand the need for a club that wasn't for Ping-Pong or photography...
...Such candor can be dangerous in China. In the past 18 months, journalists, religious figures, public advocacy lawyers and others, including an activist attempting to set up a Green political party, have been detained or jailed for speaking out. But Wen, a Dalian native who was inspired to take up the cause as a teenager after watching antiwhaling actions by Greenpeace on TV, argues that most local environmental groups are too timid to stir much public interest. "To get publicity in the Chinese media, you need the sort of provocative actions that Greenpeace used to do," he says. "Most groups...
Before hitting the road for the campaign, Ross worked as a community activist. She was a coordinator for the Women’s Alliance and Sisters Together Ending Poverty, two nonprofit organizations in the MetroWest area...
...She’s been an activist for many years, particularly working on issues related to low-income women,” Gluckman said. “She has worked hard to maintain organizations...