Word: activists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Activist stars like DARYL HANNAH, who spent three weeks in a walnut tree to support a Los Angeles farmers' garden, are getting creative in their protests...
Bono wants us to speak for AIDS causes--and not just on nights and weekends. The über-activist is pitching a Motorola RED phone, with $10 of the purchase price and 5% of monthly charges going to AIDS charities...
...Furnishings,[an error occurred while processing this directive] the exquisitely rare catalog that U.S architect Eliot F. Noyes wrote to accompany the highly influential 1941 New York exhibition of the same name. Filling shelf space between hallowed titles like these are works from William Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan, radical hippy activist Jerry Rubin and many more (it's an inventory that betrays the impeccable taste of literary critic and store owner Yataro Matsuura...
Coyle then introduced Steve Hinkle, 24, a conservative activist from California Polytechnic State University, who gave this advice: "If people are protesting and angry and tearing down your flyers, it can be really intimidating, but it means you are doing your job. And no matter what, don't ever apologize--for the speaker's message, for the way you've advertised it, for the controversy ... The left wants you to apologize, and if you do, you are ruined...
...female college activist groups go, the Network of Enlightened Women, or NeW, is a very different breed. They don't distribute condoms on the Quad or march for a woman's right to choose. Instead, they bake chocolate chip cookies and protest campus productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, a controversial play about female sexuality that conservatives say degrades women and glorifies rape...