Activists

Activists are individuals that typically seek social or political reform through protest, community organization, boycotts and rallies. Their opposition to the status quo reflects their belief that through community awareness their needs can be met.

Activists usually solicit the assistance of politicians and community leaders in seeking to have their needs and the needs of the community satisfied. They usually implement a grassroots approach, though many activists are affiliated with national causes.

The goal of many activists is to call attention to an otherwise overlooked issue affecting their community, so that governmental or social change may arise from that awareness.

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• Reclaim Our Spaces: Game 5

  
  Sprayblog — Authority: 481
  Reclaim Our Spaces : Game 5 Yankees 3- Phils 1 Reclaim Our Spaces is an new Activist Group that encourages communities to reclaim their spaces. What does that mean? Cities across the U.S. and the world have been knocking down “history” (buildings, businesses, homes, etc) at ...
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• Copenhagen: Hysterical pressure groups lose the plot

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Many climate change activists remain sunk in anti-Americanism, says Geoffrey Lean.
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• Remembering the Fallen at Christmas

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 583
  Christmas is a time to remember those who we miss. On a cold and frosty Christmas Eve morning in the East End of London, British National Party National Organiser Eddy Butler visited the grave of his old comrade from Tower Hamlets, Albert Mariner. Albert died back in 1983 after being struck on the head by a brick ...
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• Andhra Governor N.D. Tiwari denies involvement in ’sex scandal’ (Second Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Hyderabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Governor N.D. Tiwari Friday denied media reports alleging his involvement in a sex scandal and termed them “malicious” even as women’s groups held demonstrations outside his official residence here demanding his resignation.The opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader N. ...
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• Andhra Pradesh governor terms news story ‘malicious’ (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Hyderabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Governor N.D. Tiwari Friday denied media reports alleging his involvement in a sex scandal and termed them “malicious”.Meanwhile, some women groups staged protests outside the Raj Bhavan demanding the governor’s resignation. Police arrested a dozen activists of the All ...
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• Today’s Climate: December 25, 2009

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Mexico Calls for Binding Climate Accord at 2010 Summit (AP) Mexico, host of next year’s COP16, seeks to accomplish what the Copenhagen conference failed to do: Secure an agreement between developed and poorer nations to cut emissions 50 percent by 2050. It would use 2000 as the base point. China Says…
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• Australian weather bureau: “Central Pacific Ocean surface temperatures are now at their warmest level since the El Niño of 1997-98″

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  That’s the the 7-day (12/14-12/20) sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly map from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (ABM).  Their El Niño-Southern Oscillation report finds: Pacific Ocean temperatures remain at levels typical of a mature El Niño….  As a result, central Pacific Ocean surface temperatures ...
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• Climate’s lost decade now leads to a ‘last’ decade

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  It dawned with the warmest winter on record in the United States. And when the sun sets this New Year’s Eve, the decade of the 2000s will end as the warmest ever on global temperature charts.
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• Christmas Special | American Orphan Elephants Find A Home In Africa

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Elephant Orphans Merry Christmas G Living friends. I thought today would be a great day to just take a break from city life, and watch a special documentary about a unusual family of elephants. This is a special documentary about a family of orphan elephants and the people who love them. The…
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• Hit SciDev.Net stories of 2009

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Which stories made a splash with our readers this year? That climate change was popular is no surprise, but there were unexpected results.
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• Climate change puts ecosystems on the run, researchers say

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  To keep up with global warming, the average ecosystem will need to shift its physical boundaries about a quarter mile each year, says a new study led by scientists at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution.
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• Top 10 diplomatic events in India (Flashback 2009)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  By Manish ChandNew Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) A contentious India-Pakistan joint statement at Sharm-el-Sheikh and a deepening chill in bilateral ties, strains in Sino-Indian relations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the US as the first state guest of the Obama White House…Here are some defining diplomatic ...
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• Judge Ends Federal Oversight of City’s Waste System

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Significant improvements in quality control and workplace safety were cited at the Department of Environmental Protection, once one of the city’s most troubled agencies.
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• For Caring Consumers, the Gift of Carbon Dioxide

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Carbon reduction certificates, sold by a nonprofit group that watches over Adirondack Park in New York, are the latest hot eco-gift.
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• Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on San Andreas Fault

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  When the sun and moon are aligned with the San Andreas Fault they tug on it enough to increase the tremor rate deep underground, according to a new study. While these tremors have not yet been linked to earthquakes, the tremors are associated with increased stress on the fault and…
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• Microscopic flower petal ridges flash to attract pollinating insects; scientists now know how ridges form

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Microscopic ridges contouring the surface of flower petals might play a role in flashing that come-hither look pollinating insects can’t resist. Scientists now have figured out how those form. The result could help researchers learn to enhance plants’ pollination success and even could lead to high-grip ...
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• Ski runs are not created equal

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Building a new ski run by bulldozing a mountainside, rather than only cutting its shrubs and trees, is far more damaging ecologically, yet might offer only a week’s earlier start to the downhill season, says a new study.
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• Hatchery-raised salmon too crowded

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Every year, large numbers of hatchery-raised young salmonids are released into Swedish rivers and streams to compensate for losses in natural production. Butthese fish generally survive poorly in the wild. Researchers have discovered why: the young fish are too crowded at the hatchery.
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• Fungal footage yields insight into plant, animal disease

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Mold and mildew may be doomed. Researchers are closer to understanding how these and other fungi grow. That’s important because some 70 percent of the major disease-causing organisms are fungi. Understanding how fungi grow can help scientists find ways to stop them.
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• Where There’s Smoke … There’s a Trade-In

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  As temperatures drop, efforts to curb pollution from burning wood are clashing with tradition.
  20 hours ago

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