How To Use Activism In A Sentence
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Diary Entry by Ross Levin (about the author) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Action Alert: Money bomb today to fund a documentary about direct democracy, plus other activism'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'There\'s been a lot of talk about \'direct democracy\' since Obama was elected - about how his campaign involved people at a level never before seen in national politics, how his White House has been using online programs to get peoples\ 'input, and so on.
OpEdNews - Diary: Action Alert: Money bomb today to fund a documentary about direct democracy, plus other activism
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Through it all there is a strand of political activism that waxes and wanes, but never disappears.
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They are loners and individualists who reject activism.
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The issue with judicial activism is whether the Constitution should in its own terms be recognized as the will of the people.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But the stories of this remnant student activism almost inevitably leave out an enormous upsurge in pro-Israel activities on these same campuses.
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Like the temperance movement, antiporn activism mistook a symptom of male dominance for the cause.
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Now, Wired News reports that the BBC, which operates under a royal charter to inform, educate, and entertain, is launching “iCan,” a service to support citizen activism.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » BBC To Launch Citizen Activism Site
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A lot of folks might prefer to stay home on a pleasant Sunday afternoon and engage in armchair activism from the comfort of their own homes and cocoons, occasionally talking back to the cable news networks or commenting on a blog.
Cynthia Boaz: A Reality (and Sanity) Check for Progressives- Speech to Petaluma Progressive Festival
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While insisting on the doctrine of numerus of IPR, there is no conclusion that we should be against judicial activism and restrict judge-made law.
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The court was laden with judges who believe strongly in judicial activism - liberally interpreting the law so that it can be used an instrument of social reform.
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This requires a radical reduction in activism-related flying.
Joseph Nevins: Flying & Activism
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As far as community activism is concerned, do not victimise people with unfounded and destructive remarks or allegations.
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Today, there\'s a new kind of swadeshi with online social activism.
Lee Schneider: The Do Good Web
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Though it doesn’t get nearly the attention his political activism does, Franken was participating in USO tours long before it was fashionable among Democrats, and has kept it up with trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, despite his opposition to the war (though he did not initially oppose it).
He’s Not Joking
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What the conservatives commentators really want in a Justice with respect to these issues is not judicial passivism but judicial activism.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Sonia Sotomayor and the Hypocrisy of "Conservative" Critics
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This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure?
Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67
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For a party steeped in a history of armed struggle they are none too keen on radical activism.
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The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.
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Ivan Booth introduces "What Online Activism Can Learn from Community Organizing":"There's often a disconnect between what's seen as online activism--referred to as "slacktivism," sometimes accurately but oftentimes sloppily, and community-based social change
Michael Silberman: Looking for What Works: Best Online Organizing Reads of 2010
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Again activism and commerce are neither contradictory nor mutually exclusive.
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Rather, it was the product of years of activism and agitation on the part of activists from all walks of life.
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Indeed, TBTN and similar forms of activism are becoming construed more as community dividers than builders.
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It has exploited the internet to pioneer a model of global activism.
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There is a lot of enthusiasm among those writing about innovation, and among those working in R&D settings, for bottom-up activism or "intrapreneurship.
The Five Myths Of Innovation
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These developments took place against a background of growing activism on the abortion issue in the country at large.
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But since he's a conservative, that kind of activism is okay with the right because it's their kind of activism, proving again the axiom, IOKIYAR (It's Okay If You're A Republican).
November 2005
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Founded and edited by writer, journalist and clubwoman Rosa Sonneschein, the magazine emerged from the network of activism created by late nineteenth-century middle-class Jewish clubwomen, particularly those from the National Council Of Jewish Women (NCJW).
American Jewess,The.
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This article examines whether performing acts of political participation on the Internet should be seen as slacktivism or as virtual activism.
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It was many years before I realized that activism must be rooted in the very simple principle of love: love of some kind of moral or spiritual guidepost (some call their guidepost "God"), love of self, love for each other, and, unquestionably, love for humankind.
Kevin Powell: Barack One Year Later: Open Letter to Young America
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Geometric abstraction, thirties activism, and Surrealism had their day in American art, but not at the Intimate Gallery or An American Place.
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Where humour and rational explanations do not produce concord about judicial activism, a parable may make the point.
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Lastly, part of identifying a set of best practices is about documenting those examples of recent activism in which the digitally connected few galvanized and mobilized the less connected masses.
Susannah Vila: The Wrong Debate: Why We Should Stop Debating Technology's Relevance and Start Figuring Out How to Effectively Leverage It
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The plans come at a time when property stocks are vulnerable to shareholder activism and predators.
Times, Sunday Times
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Activism should be permitted to be more than solely being a postman/postwoman, or producer of literature.
Archive 2007-01-01
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She had taken the not abnormal route to mainstream, rightish orthodoxy by a basic grounding in left-wing student activism.
THE SCAR
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But in practice, the main divide between liberal and conservative judges tends to be over the responsibilities of the federal government,[Sentence dictionary] not judicial activism per se.
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Stripped of its activism, the book's titular search for Afro-Asian solidarity could be read as an increasingly monastic pursuit, as the dream of a global alliance against imperialism is passed from one individual to the next.
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Instead of decrying violence, Senator Cornyn legitimated it and used it to attack judicial activism.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's hoping that political activism will come out of the living rooms and into the streets.
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The student outburst of activism in the 1960s emerged out of a lack of an ideological opposite to western liberal democracy.
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Few were willing to make more than a rhetorical commitment to revolutionary activism.
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Some of them avoided republican activism like the plague when there was a risk to personal safety or freedom, but with the Good Friday Agreement found it easy to puff the chest out and ask menacingly ‘do you know who I am?’
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Yang describes his theoretical approach as "multi-interactionism," by which he means that internet activism develops in dynamic relationship to a handful of separate social factors that facilitate and constrain the actions users can take.
Archive 2009-08-01
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We can intuitively perceive the philosophy of judicial activism through the case of Scott which was accompanied by a much political attempt and the case of Lochner which vetoed legislative regulation.
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The power of religious belief and commitment that motivated women to enter a sisterhood and engage in social activism is often downplayed in historians' accounts.
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April 22nd, 2010 at 2: 16 pm tombaker says: this weekend, as crowds converge to observe Earth Day in DC and hundreds of other cities around the US and the world, the ‘baggers will get to see what real mainstream, grassroots activism looks like. my guess is they’ll spend the weekend with their eyes squinched shut and their fingers in their ears, shouting “lalalalalalalalalalalala” as loud as they can.
Think Progress » Gingrich: Tea Parties are ‘likely to end up as the militant wing of the Republican Party.’
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They encouraged political activism by organising and advertising demonstrations and protests.
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And when this policy seemed in danger of leading to regression as a result of electoral defeat, the commit ment to electoral (hence revisionist) activism was characterized as a buttress to the established theory of societal breakdown rather than as a major concession to revisionist ideology.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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This is a brilliant merging of mainstream film production and political activism.
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Nonetheless many of these sites illuminate areas of environmental activism you might not have considered.
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He is not hinting; he is saying it was judicial activism in diplomat language.
Think Progress » Citizens United Decision: ‘A Rejection Of The Common Sense Of The American People’
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At the heart of this process should be a more ambitious approach to infrastructure investment and more activism in industrial policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every time there has been an upsurge in student activism this patronising accusation has been made.
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My usual idea of political activism is defacing the candidate's photos in their election literature.
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I think our corporate governance has structurally been on the improve, but activism has always been part of our DNA anyway.
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GERKIN: I think we should be very careful about throwing around the term judicial activism.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Vote: New Life in the Fight for the White House - December 8, 2000
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Liberation theology is also a call to political activism and therefore often combines easily with Marxism and other left-wing political ideologies.
Times, Sunday Times
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The anti-war protests around the world had a positive impact on pushing out these groups to take part in more activism.
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When he came out of prison, he gave up political activism for the anonymity and stability of a bourgeois French family life.
Times, Sunday Times
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The journalist, Gemma Soames, seems to be arguing that the recent Miss University London beauty pageant is a microcosmic example of a change in the focus of feminist activism by cis women away from a ‘retro’ (and, by implication, outmoded and irrelevant) feminism:
Ohz noez! Not *another* 2008 roundup…
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Even when youth activism is accepted it is usually in a condescending or patronizing manner when older and more experienced organizers run and co-opt youth efforts.
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At the same time her political activism forged a dual public identity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In England, it remained distinctively regional, and was particularly associated with areas of Puritan activism and social predominance like Essex.
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The low point of self defeating activism came at a Radio City Music Hall fundraiser at which Chevy Chase said the president had the intellect of an "egg timer" John Mellencamp called Bush a "cheap thug" and Meryl Streep, in a performance that brings new meaning to the word sanctimonious, belittled the president's faith.
Hullabaloo
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People imbued with intensely tribal values often alternate between manic activism and depressed fatalism.
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Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member, leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism.
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The term activism by Mark Sashine on Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 9: 14: 05 AM
The Problem of Cosmetic Activism
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So while we all have our own jobs, and interests, we come together for dinners, for vespers, for music and art and activism, and just because we like each other.
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The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.
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Motivated by an evolutionary Force ... this integral activism (i.e. Enlightenment Virus - ed.) effectively reunites the once-polarized paths of peace and power; invoking an invincible evolutionary dynamic that acts directly, vibrationally upon the body, cellular and terrestrial; not simply overpowering from without but setting up a resonance that" agitates "the" particles "of consciousness in the surrounding material field.
Triggering the Enlightenment Virus
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In a different dimension but not far removed, Obama's Chicago pastor, now eclipsed, Rev. Jeremiah Wright showed Obama a non-dogmatic Christianity: a transcendent God and a zeal for this-worldly activism, but not a direct answer to every political question.
Christopher Lydon: Reading Obama's Mind: Pragmatism and Its Perils (AUDIO)
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Increase the number of conservatives who actively participate, through contributions and personal activism, in behalf of conservative candidates in Republican nomination contests.
Conservative Republican Participation - Morton_C_Blackwell’s blog - RedState
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Today, there's a new kind of swadeshi with online social activism.
Lee Schneider: The Do Good Web
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Institutional Shareholder Activism has become an important characteristic in Western securities market.
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Her heritage of social activism influenced her to use her fiction and drama as propagandist tools.
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His activism and "voluntary" internment had put him at great personal risk throughout 1945.
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The terms of the debate centre on celebrating personal behaviour, community tidiness, local accessibility, micromanagement, voluntarism, neighbourhood activism, and so on.
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Still, Lelyveld relates the more compelling story of how a supremely well-intentioned man struggled, through five decades of activism, with a series of evasions, compromises, setbacks, and defeats.
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A hegemonic spirit nonetheless underlies both the liberal activism and the neoconservative unilateralism evident in much of recent American foreign policy.
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The film also implicitly questions the validity of a contemporary academic that fails to incorporate political activism in favour of a purely aesthetic or contemplative mode of being.
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Despite librarians' reputation for being riled only by noise, history suggests that they are a prone to scheming and political activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Junket activism is not a new phenomenon on the political landscape, much literature and art is actively devoted to the promotion of exotic India.
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During World War I, her activism for pacifism grew, and in 1919 she helped to found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
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I have seen Milan Smith on the conservative side in splits, and in fact I have seen him get quite impatient (in opinions) with what he clearly sees as liberal activism; I would describe him as a moderate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing in Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft
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Sitting for a relatively prosperous rural constituency, political activism was a personal choice rather than a political necessity.
THE GUARDSMEN
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Appalled by judicial activism, he advocated a classical, minimalist role for the court after the tumult of the 1960s.
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The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.
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That sure won't make King or Vander Plaats happy; they're more in mind of the phrase reigning back "judicial activism.
Undefined
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He wants us to see the world differently and to act to change it, but to drop the also uniquely American idea that political change can be fast and easy: one demonstration or election means little, he warns us; we need long-term tedious activism.
David Swanson: Chomsky's New Book
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The rest of the job is actual activism and bootstrapping more funding.
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Its faculty and students included many antislavery firebrands, and a series of public lyceum debates soon gave Lane such a reputation as a hotbed of activism that in 1834 the trustees forbade further discussion of the matter.
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Their policy is playing to the [Kenyan public] gallery, which we call activism diplomacy," he said, calling the warnings on travel bans part of "a big bully blackmail system.
U.S. Ups Criticism, Pressure On Kenya
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Shareholder activism has raised its profile thanks to Icahn and other hedge fund managers, but this crop of new activists has shown some scorn for the greenmailing investors of the past.
Stuck With CarlA Little Greenmail Would Help Time Warner
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Anti-war activism by veterans over the years has been largely forgotten or downplayed.
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People imbued with intensely tribal values often alternate between manic activism and depressed fatalism.
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By redistributing a share of the severalfold economic growth since then, worker activism, new laws and court decisions changed all that.
Real Caricature, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Of how the obvious justice of Brown vs. The Board of Education, eliminating de jure segregation, led to the judicial activism of de facto remedies and federal judges, not parents or teachers, as overseers of public education.
Michael Jones: Waiting for "Superman"
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Where can feminist activism lead us to in our quest for a more gender-democratic society?
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Not only are the non-violent actions of one man and the people who are following him causing millions of people to convulse with political and civic activism, but agents of the state are involved in speech suppression using modern technology, while it is age-old social media that seems to be the primary driver.
Alan W. Silberberg: Oldest Tech, Newest Hero?
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These statutory changes took place in a period of judicial activism in this area which had relaxed the law.
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For related discussions of the complex substitutions which mediate between the production of affect and political action see Ann Cvetkovich's compelling readings of the problem of exemplarity in AIDS activism and in Marx's novelistic gestures in Capital in Mixed Feelings:
Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire'
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Her activism has included exhibiting photographs from inside the camp.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hadn't a clue to the meaning of "activism
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In your cartoons, you make fun of people who use Internet activism as an excuse to avoid real activism.
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Digital activism is not slacktivism.
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These developments took place against a background of growing activism on the abortion issue in the country at large.
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We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the 1980s it has been forging a reputation for environmental activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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At that time, she was still coming to grips with her unexpected plunge into social activism.
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But engagement in a wider social sense is not reducible to individual activism.
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We can intuitively perceive the philosophy of judicial activism through the case of Scott which was accompanied by a much political attempt and the case of Lochner which vetoed legislative regulation.
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I shall henceforth use the term donor-driven gender activism
Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
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Social media activism is the great empty gesture of our age.
The Sun
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At bottom there is a conflict here between activism and quietism.
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It is for this reason that the one-person-one-vote decision, while appealing in democratic terms, seems to me a form of illegitimate judicial activism.
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At that time, she was still coming to grips with her unexpected plunge into social activism.
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Always at the forefront of change, Ram Dass led the baby boomers to psychedelic drugs, Eastern spirituality and social activism.
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Unprecedented grassroots activism by civic groups has sent political circles reeling from shock.
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Even more fatal was the revival of radical political activism in the army.
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But the case for policy activism of some kind is fairly uncontroversial.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Instead, Nancy Brinker, Komen founder and the woman responsible for "pinking" the world, sees the report as yet another opportunity for activism.
Homepage
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Oh, to be a young believer in Philadelphia right now, where the spirit of Christian activism is mingling vigorously with an apparently unkillable strain of old-school countercultural Jesus-freakery.
Sing to the Lord a New Song
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Whether as collective green graffiti or as an attempt to reclaim the neighborhood and make improvements for all, guerrilla gardening is a form of eco-activism that is catching on despite its controversial methods.
GUERILLA GARDENING: Strategies for Greening the Hood | Inhabitat
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This is not judicial activism, but judicial passivism.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Sonia Sotomayor and the Hypocrisy of "Conservative" Critics
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Sitting for a relatively prosperous rural constituency, political activism was a personal choice rather than a political necessity.
THE GUARDSMEN
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In such cases, the environment provides foot soldiers with confusing signals regarding the acceptable level and forms of political activism.
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I thought it was a very interesting way of thinking about African American autonomist political activism.
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It's not just about the fact that if we clearly cannot agree on what feminism is, how can we even go about agreeing on what post-feminism is, but that the very term negates both the activism and identity of those who regard feminism as a work in progress, not just something to be studied in the history books with the requisite buzzphrase "bra burning," sans explanation about its origins in a single protest at the 1968 Miss America Pageant Freedom Trash Can bonfire.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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While the law asserts otherwise, Truth's activism demonstrates the capacity of disfranchised Americans to seize legal agency, to demand a voice ‘among the pettifoggers.’
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We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're still celebrating 20 years of musical activism from the english label boxset is now coming out very soon ...
Djouls.com
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So, in a way, it ` s illogical to get sacked from the police for being a non-activist BNP member when another police officer might be involved in BNP activism but hasn ` t joined up.
Ruralshire Constabulary lost data scandal! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Notwitstanding both sides’ cries against activism, nearly all appellate decisionmaking is somewhat talmudic/cannon-like.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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I'm not saying there aren't problems in the world, but slactivism won't solve a single one of them.
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Testament activism and what stuck in her craw was a 1977 Miami-Dade
The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine
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The size of this "shantytown" should be viewed not as a symbol of USAS's difficulties but as proof that college students remain as ideologically diverse as ever and that most students are not easily swayed by the rhetoric of this latest student-activism fad.
Mail Call
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The American tradition of black civil rights activism is now expressed through this movement.
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Once again, so-called slacktivism begets activism.
Ryan Scott: The Future of Giving - From Slacktivism to Activism
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This week's object of online fury is Malcom Gladwell's take on "Facebook activism," which, he writes, "succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a real sacrifice.
Sam Graham-Felsen: What Gladwell Got Wrong: Beyond "Like Button" Activism
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Over the years, peace activism has grown stronger and more vocal, thus reducing chances of any man-made apocalypses.
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I hadn't a clue to the meaning of "activism
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This would be an example of precedent activism but not separation-of-powers activism.
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At some point under our system we have to assert parliamentary sovereignty against judicial activism.
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In England, it remained distinctively regional, and was particularly associated with areas of Puritan activism and social predominance like Essex.
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The terms of the debate centre on celebrating personal behaviour, community tidiness, local accessibility, micromanagement, voluntarism, neighbourhood activism, and so on.
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Updated 11: 06: Sen. Feingold is now attacking the activism of the Roberts Court, while noting that there appears to be no fixed definition of the term \ "judicial activism\" other than \ "having opinions one does not like.
Doug Kendall: Liveblogging the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings
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That is one of the side effects of the decline in activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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(The people responsible for my being able to articulate this statement are far too numerous to mention, but in particular at this moment, I want to thank Ricky Sherover-Marcuse who invented "intersectionality" as an activism tool before it was taken over by the academy; the revolutionary poetic voice of Judy Grahn; and the writing of Denise Thompson and her choice to define feminism.)
Morning Manifesto
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Japan Media Review reports that the Internet and mobile messaging have fueled a surge in antiwar activism among Japanese youth.,
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Online Antiwar Activism in Japan
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This can be best achieved through the creation of CEDAW clubs in tertiary institutions with the major aims of building a culture of Women’s Human Rights activism and advocacy among Nigerian Youths and also to build gender discrimination-free culture on campus and among Nigerian youths. in conclusion, Youth involvement in promoting and development of Women’s Human Rights in achieving gender equality is very vital and essential.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Last spring, I got into a heated argument with a bunch of lawyers about judicial activism.
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In addition to urging members to write letters to their congressional representatives, Americans for Prosperity plans to advise members on other types of activism such as carpooling to polling locations and educating members on lawmakers 'policies -- strategies partially adopted from MoveOn. org and the Obama campaign.
Conservatives Take a Page From Left's Online Playbook
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Opponents, however, say the definition of no-bid contract is unworkably broad and that the measure stifles free speech by restricting political activism.
Colorado Fight Looms
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They see the fees as payment for service, even if they agree that activism is required.
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To avert the risk of judges' abuse of their power, a "due-procedure judicial activism paradigm" should be adopted so as to render appropriate regulation as well as protection.
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He is not an advocate of clerical activism, preferring the traditional quietist approach to politics.
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But the case for policy activism of some kind is fairly uncontroversial.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She also co-teaches intensive seminars that combine permaculture design, political organising and activism, and earth-based spirituality.
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I think this a great victory for shareholder activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Abdallah Abu Rahma has been in detention, torn away from his wife, three children and the young students he could be teaching, because Israel has apparently decided that civic activism, nonviolent protest or any kind of dissidence in Palestine is illegal.
Haaretz.com headlines RSS
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Absent, too, is the zealous activism of a huge freshman class that entered Washington two years ago brimming with enthusiasm.
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It is also consistent with the growing prominence of gay and lesbian activism on campus.
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This method contrasts with other ways of evaluating activism such as textualism, originalism, and jurisprudential theory.
Green on An Intellectual History of Judicial Activism
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Among social institutions, churches were especially supportive because their emphasis on morality and community was conducive to antislavery activism.
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The paralytic effect of Obamamania threatens to finally strangle Black activism - and organizable Black consciousness, itself - on the eve of domestic and global catastrophe.
2007: The Year of Black 'Media Leaders' �� Especially ObamaAfrican America - Black Misleadership Class
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Such an approach arguably can make for good social activism, but it begets bad theatre.
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Rough will be chiefly remembered for his shareholder activism.
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Using an account of the courageous coffee bar sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, he argued that such activism was based on the strength of intimate friendships and shared experience, and directed by hierarchical power, could never have arisen from the "weak ties" and "horizontal" associations that characterise the campaigning of online "friends" and "followers".
Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell
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Local party activism is integral to the web of public service, patronage and interest on which accountable democracy depends.
Times, Sunday Times
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When does the moral justification for activism no longer outweigh the fact that you're breaking the law?
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In all of this Supreme Court daydreaming, is any rightwinger going to say outright, “Everything we said about “judicial activism” was pure smokescreen”?
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform
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Sitting for a relatively prosperous rural constituency, political activism was a personal choice rather than a political necessity.
THE GUARDSMEN
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The tradition of "antifa," or anti-fascist mobilization and activism popular throughout Europe, particularly in politically polarized societies like Greece and Italy, draws on the support of self-proclaimed anarchist groups.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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It came in 1990, undermining their magnanimity, but also galvanising me and my colleagues into human rights activism.
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From the barbershops to newsrooms to college classrooms, the issue of Black prominence in sports and social activism gets aired frequently, according to observers.
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We have a Court of Appeal with unelected judges engaged in activism.
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We'll be hearing from a few people who would definitely be classed as New Agers, but with a bent for ecological activism.
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Who, in fact, were the actors who agitated for a naked public square, and what were the grievances or desired benefits that drove their activism?
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Where power is too concentrated, and bureaucratic structures too deaf and blind, pluralist activism is critical to the achievement of change.
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Many decades of judicial activism have altered that noble idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Carnovsky, cast as the antifascist leader Santayana, was well known for his leftist activism, as well as his work on progressive films including The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and The Master Race (1944).
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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Most of the people that I know won't sign up to political activism in order to get better managers.
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In the dining area, three of the owners of the house discuss how their everyday activism led them to build this home together.
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Her activism has included exhibiting photographs from inside the camp.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe the emphasis should be shifted from the initiation of activism to its consequences.
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Growing up where I did also means that I have not a lot of patience for creative interpretation of terms that Black women feminists and womanists developed, like 'intersectionality', that ignore how even people in the communities where these terms came from had massive disagreements on theory, practice, activism, and how to actually create social change.
Bluenefertiti
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Such activism in foreign policy did not accord with conservatism at home.
Fascists and Conservatives
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In the ‘golden age of activism,’ students became politicized by direct experience.
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For many it is the first time that they have been involved in political activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is pure social activism, not aimed at helping children gain wisdom, but to "emancipate" them from blind belief in Western civilisation, especially what they might learn from "literature".
EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL
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In recent years, women's activism has impacted on other kinds of international conferences.
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Not being shaggable at university drives them into the arms of "student activism" as an outlet.
If Greens Ruled The World...
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The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.
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The conference organizers set out to understand how the boundaries of activism are redrawn in the age of new media.
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The location fit his sense of call to social activism.
Christianity Today
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I was born into a family profuse in its ambition but lacking in its activism.
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MikeGene: Or are you now going to deny that misrepresentation is a core feature of political activism and campaigning?
Advocacy in Science: a Parasitic Practice
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This is because, quite frankly, the 60s marked a high point in the evolution of American society as a whole and set an inapproachable standard across so many aspects of our culture -- music, art, political activism, even the act of defiance itself -- and it did this despite being one of the most turbulent periods in our nation's history.
Chez Pazienza: What a Long, Strange, Thoroughly Obnoxious Trip It's Been
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The advent of policy activism implied an adherence to policy rules radically different from those which had been applied previously.
