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...secretary has] absolutely the most difficult position because you always have so many activist groups trying to reach you on everything from abortion to AIDS to welfare to animal rights," said former HHS secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan to Cleveland's Plain Dealer. "You get picketed and sued more than anyone else...
...Coles befriended Catholic activist Dorothy Day after meeting the pacifist egalitarian at her soup kitchen, and he wound up contributing to her journal, The Catholic Worker...
...changing the world need not be so dramatic as these examples make it sound. A good production of Me and My Girl could, in its way, have as much of an effect on society as the most openly activist plays like Waiting for Lefty or Not One Flea Spare. It is the nature of theater and not the content of the play itself that is important. Theater of any type teaches us-sometimes it teaches us how to watch and learn from and understand people, sometimes how to interpret their actions and see past their language, sometimes how to love...
More than ten years after the Cold War, the U.S. needs to reevaluate what it has accomplished with the "gift of time" that nuclear activist Jonathan Schell '65 eloquently wrote about in 1998. Writing soon after news of the Clinton administration's nuclear war fighting plans trickled to the press, Schell noted the irony of the U.S., the strongest conventional military power, clinging to nuclear weapons for its security when the demise of the Soviet Union presented an opportunity for moving resolutely toward nuclear abolition...
...called a Mover. So the fact that this 19-year-old drug dealer decides to launch a campaign to become a New York City councilman doesn't seem a stretch. Especially since his mentors are themselves unconventional--Spencer Throckmorton, a black rabbi, and Inez Nomura, a Japanese-American activist. Beatty's second novel (The White Boy Shuffle was his first) is like an extended rap song, its characters recounting struggle and survival with the bravado of hip-hoppers. But then, that's exactly the attitude you need to be a Mover...