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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• *President Obama Talks To The Tribal Nations- Question: Where Is Leonard Peltiers Place At The Table?

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 145
  Click on title to link to "The Washington Post" article about President Obamas meetings with various Native American tribal leaders. My question in the headline stands.
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• Brokaws Really Important Interview: Gorbachev Supports Obamas Nobel Prize

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 832
  Sometimes – no, scratch that, many times –  it is difficult to imagine a caricature of the media . Tom Brokaw made an appearance on this mornings edition of Morning Joe this morning, plugging his interview with the former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev.  Brokaw was, of course, reporting from the historic ...
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• Past Climate Of Northern Antarctic Peninsular Informs Global Warming Debate

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which appears to show that the current warming and widespread loss of glacial ice are unprecedented.
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• More American Evangelical Ties To Uganda’s Anti-Gay Politicians

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 678
  L-R: Unidentified woman, American holocaust revisionist Scott Lively, International Healing Foundations Caleb Brundidge, Exodus International board member Don Schmierer, Family Life Networks (Uganda) Stephen Langa, at the time of the March 2009 anti-gay conference in Uganda. Regular readers of this web site are well ...
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• BNP Remembrance Day Ceremonies Round-up

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  The British National Party took part in a large number of Remembrance Sunday ceremonies around the country on Sunday. Here are photographs from some of them. BNP Cllr Paul Cromie from Bradford lays a wreath in Queensbury Ward. Gary Tumulty, BNP Salford, lays a wreath at Salford cenotaph. Above left: Cllr ...
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• WSJs Timely Wall-Fall Reminder: In 1987, Rather Said USSR Citizens Do Not Yearn For Democracy

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 832
  The Wall Street Journals editorial today on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is excellent, as would be expected, and gives credit where credit is due: In the debate over who deserves credit for causing the Berlin Wall to collapse on the night of November 9, 1989, many names come to mind, ...
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• Queer Culture and the Reasons You Should be an Activist.

  
  jaysays.com | — Authority: 421
  No matter how you spin it, there is something for everyone in being an activist. Within the broad gay community, we have developed our own labels. Some of those labels cross the boundaries into the straight world, some are fairly queer specific. Queers United covers many of these gay phrases under “Word of the ...
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• Should LGBT People Stop Giving Money to the Democratic National Committee?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Are you frustrated that ten months into the Obama administration, theres still no repeal of "Dont Ask, Dont Tell," no Employment Non-Discrimination Act, no repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and no sign that President Obama wants to help defeat statwide ballot measures that seek to repeal gay marriage rights? If ...
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• Petitioners pulled up for urging bureaucrat not be made CIC

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday pulled up a group of social activists who had filed a plea seeking transparency in the appointment of the chief information commissioner (CIC) and urging a bureaucrat should not the first choice for appointment for the post.A division bench comprising Chief Justice ...
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• Berlin celebrates the fall of the Wall (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Berlin, Nov 9 (DPA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday retraced the steps she took after the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, as international leaders gathered in Berlin to celebrate the events of Nov 9, 1989.Addressing throngs of onlookers, the chancellor said the historic events of 1989 were “the result ...
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• Devon Climate Action Network event to connect all environmental groups in Devon

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  Devon Can (Climate Action Network) is holding a grand networking event for all those in Devon interested in climate action, transition and sustainable living, at the Belmont Centre, Exeter on November 21 from 10am to 4pm. The all-day event is follow on from the group’s launch in March. The purpose of Devon Can ...
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• New Zealand Environment Court Says No to Huge Wind Farm

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 622
  What would have been the Southern Hemisphere’s largest wind farm, a $2 billion NZD ($1.4 billion USD) and 630 MW wind farm in New Zealand, is not happening because New Zealand’s Environment Court says that it would ruin the surrounding landscape. This project would have powered over a million homes and made a ...
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• Israeli Settlement Produce Importer Carmel Agrexco Blockaded

  
  Sabbah — Authority: 140
  On Friday, 6th November, pro-Palestinian activists carried out the first of what was to be three consecutive days of blockading at Carmel Agrexco s depot in Hayes, Middlesex. The action saw a coalition of students from Kings , UCL , SOAS and Goldsmiths , saw members from Anarchists Against the Wall and the ...
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• Midwest Weather Looks Good for Harvest

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  U.S. Midwest weather is seen mostly dry through the next week, ideal for the corn and soybean harvest, a forecaster said on Friday. “This is outstanding weather. Considering the time of the year, this is about as good as you’re going to get,” said Mike Palmerino with DTN Meteorlogix. …
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• Climate Summit to host 40 heads of state

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Some 40 heads of state plan to attend a U.N. meeting in December in Copenhagen meant to agree a global warming deal, the U.N. climate chief said on Friday.
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• Climate talks set to drag on for another year

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  UN climate talks in Barcelona last week ended with little progress, prompting speculation that a legally binding treaty will need another year to negotiate.
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• Maldives wants poor nations to make carbon pledge

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Developing nations should set an example for the world ahead of an international conference on climate change by pledging to become carbon neutral, the president of the Maldives said Monday.
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• Global Ponzi scheme metaphor of the month

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge. Patrol investigator Chris Linehan says he arrested Samuel Botchvaroff Tuesday as he sat inside a stolen 2000 Range Rover at the Vallejo courthouse. The 24-year-old Botchvaroff had just left his…
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• Road to Copenhagenm, Part 5: Awesomely audacious leadership vs. nattering nabobs of negativism*

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  We are only just beginning to scratch the surface of the power of a positive vision of an abundant future… Rob Hopkins, “The Transition Handbook” During his 10 months in office, President Barack Obama and his team have assembled an impressive list of accomplishments on energy and climate policy.  Some ...
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• Binding climate deal unlikely until next year

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Greenwire : The deadline to strike a new global climate change deal will likely slip until the end of next year, leaders on both sides of the Atlantic say. “I don’t think we can get a legally binding agreement by Copenhagen,” said the U.N.’s climate chief Yvo de Boer yesterday in Barcelona. “I think…
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