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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “activists”

• Eva Mendes Renounces Fur, Still Absolutely Loves Leather

  
  Deceiver.com — Authority: 501
  You know the Oscar-worthy scripts aren’t exactly rolling in when Eva Mendes takes a starring role in a snuff film for PETA : The sexy star admits she once wore fur to a Hollywood event, but she’ll never repeat her mistake. And, by way of repenting, she’s hosting a new Internet expose about the fur industry. ...
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• You Can Take The Prince, But Not What He Stands for

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  Image by Uncleweed via Flickr While we are so delicately enjoying our turkey and ham dinners, Marc will be in jail eating what ever mushy goo they give him in there, and his family will be thankful for his sacrifice. For without his rise of the white flag, all his family and friends would have been imprisoned along ...
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• Group plans noontime Black Friday demonstration launching campaign to oust Army Experience Center at Franklin Mills Mall

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 603
  DON’T-SHOP-THE-MALL CAMPAIGN TIL ARMY EXPERIENCE CENTER CLOSES IS CRY OF AREA PEACE ACTIVISTS United for Peace and Justice-Delaware Valley Network (UFPJ-DVN), a regional network of over 90 organizations that are collaborating and networking on peace and justice projects in the Delaware Valley Region, will ...
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• 200,000 animals sacrificed in Nepal to appease gods

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Bariyarpur (Nepal), Nov 25(ANI): Considered as the single largest mass slaughter of animals on earth, priests at a Hindu temple in Nepal sacrificed some 200,000 animals and birds in an ancient ritual to appease gods. According to organizers, more than 200,000 animals, including buffaloes, goats, roosters and pigeons ...
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• States Test Ways To Turn Consumers Into Producers

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 516
  By Emily Vaughan Coming soon to a rooftop near you. Image Braemac Corp. Four states this year implemented feed-in tariffs, incentives that pay customers for the renewable energy they produce and “feed” back into electricity grids. Three did it for the first time, joining Washington state and California, ...
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• Climategate – The Musical

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 516
  This video was posted to You Tube by M4GW Numerous sites have now posted the video which originated from the Minnesotans For Global Warming (M4GW)site. UPDATE Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla) has just issued a Press Release announcing the launch of an investigation into Climategate. This is the link to an ...
  9 hours ago

• Climategate – The Global Warming Conspiracy – Damage Control

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 516
  By Andrew Bolt Now for the explanations… The University of East Anglia has released statements from Professor Trevor Davies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Professor Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit, and from the CRU, from which the leaked emails of the warming conspiracy were stolen. And they ...
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• ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 516
  By Noel Sheppard The Obama administration has another reason to hate Fox: it appears to be the only national television news outlet in America interested in the growing ClimateGate scandal. Despite last Friday morning’s bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by ...
  11 hours ago

• Global Warming Exposed, Al Gore Hiding

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 516
  By Scooter Van Neuter (SR) – As the world digests the thousands of emails and documents stolen from Britain’s esteemed East Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit that show global warming is as real as new stimulus jobs, the man who got the whole thing started, Al Gore, is nowhere to be found. Mr. Gore ...
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• EFF Launches New "Terms of (Ab)Use" Page

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 480
  EFF Launches New "Terms of (Ab)Use" Page : Via EFF.org Updates . One cannot go online today without eventually being asked to accept a set of so-called Terms of Service (or TOS). Such TOS agreements have become ubiquitous to websites and other online services in the same way End User License Agreements (EULAs) have ...
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• Global Warming Fraud: Somebody Needs To Go To Jail

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 516
  By Alan Caruba Snow on Palm trees. The revelations that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) doctored the data supporting the global warming claims of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) means that EVERYTHING attributed to or based upon ...
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• Spend Your Break Fighting for Justice

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 128
  Participants at Missouri alternative break by Marlan Maralit Are you a college senior considering a career in social change and want to help make change happen in the world around you? Do you believe that a strong labor movement is vital to fighting back the attacks on working families, on health care, and the ...
  23 hours ago

• Tai Babilonia Update (in case you like aging ice-grannies…)

  
  Deceiver.com — Authority: 501
  Tai Babilonia skated at Rockefeller Center today, against wearing animal skin, or something. And yes, those are leather skates. (Thanks to one intrepid Deceiver reader for reminding us to look.) Go here if you really must watch the video. I love the little girl who skates past her, does a double-take, and ...
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• Anti-gay Lutheran pastor heads his own church-split

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 656
  In August of this year, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America took strongly affirmative stances in welcoming and supporting gay Christians, including allowing gay and lesbian ministers in lifelong monogamous same-gender relationships to serve as ELCA pastors. Immediately, conservatives encouraged pastors and ...
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• What Happened to Our Movement?

  
  VivirLatino — Authority: 590
  In light of the recent protests in the University of California system, Xicana scholar and activist, Cherrie Moraga, gave a pointed and stirring critique/speech to a graduation class at UC Berkeley. In it, she asks, “What happened to our movement?” in reference to the work done by activists of color in the 60s. ...
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• Protesting Uganda’s Proposed “Anti-Homosexuality” Bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  This post is from HRC Legislative Counsel Ty Cobb; photos by Media Center Intern Arthur Hartnett: Last week, HRC joined the Council for Global Equality outside the Ugandan Embassy on Thursday to protest  a contemptable bill that would outlaw homosexuality.   Bill No. 18, introduced in the Ugandan ...
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• Agriculture Can Adapt to Climate Change

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 169
  Innovative agricultural technologies can produce crops that meet climate change challenges, says ICRISAT head William Dar. New strategies must be built around ‘green’ agricultural technologies, such as adaptive plant breeding, pest forecasting, rainwater harvesting and fertiliser microdosing.
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• Obama to honor Indian PM with state visit

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 169
  Behind the elaborate ceremony of the Indian prime minister’s state visit Tuesday, Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama will be working to smooth over differences on climate change and U.S. ties with Indian rivals China and Pakistan.The White House is eager to show that, despite what some Indians see as…
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• Kids just say no—to fossil fuels

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 169
  by Osha Gray Davidson “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary…” OK, students of American History, think you know the rest of this historic American sentence? If you guessed, “… for one people to rid themselves of an energy system that may threaten their lives and liberties, it is…
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• Reuters: “ANALYSIS-Hacked climate e-mails awkward, not game changer”; Hackergate contest — Rename “Climategate” after the crime, not the victim

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 169
  Embarrassing climate e-mails will have limited impactScientists behaving badly won’t change evidence…. WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder for critics, but experts believe the issue will not hurt the U.S. climate bill’s chance for ...
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