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	Activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change.
		The word 'activism' is often used synonymously with protest or dissent, but activism can stem from any number of political orientations and take a wide range of forms, from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, simply shopping ethically, rallies and street marches, direct action, or even guerilla tactics.
		In the more confrontational cases, an activist may be called a freedom fighter by some, and a terrorist by others, depending on which side of the political fence is making the observation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Activism (139 words)

	Economic activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Economic activism is a very complicated subject that means many things to many people.
		All would agree, however, that it involves using economic power for change.
		Both conservative and liberal groups use economic activism to boycott companies and organizations that do not agree with their particular political, religious, or social values.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economic_activism (221 words)

	AN INSTITUTIONALIST TAKE ON STATE ACTIVISM IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
		undertheorization of economic development strategies, as well as the essentially ad hoc nature by which many measures of economic development policy are constructed” is a major shortcoming in the literature.
		I develop a theoretical framework of state activism in economic development using constructs from the extant literatures on growth theory, economic policy, and international development.
		Although economic growth is only a portion of the broader framework of development, it is still a major economic goal, and one often used as a measure of policy effectiveness.
	www.spaef.com /IJED_PUB/v1n3_wilson.html (6425 words)

	JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IN POST-COMMUNIST STATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Further, although questions regarding judicial legitimacy, activism, independence, and political/social impact are now being explored in a comparative setting, a majority of the studies are doctrinal and consequently generate conclusions based on limited qualitative data.
		The data indicate that judicial activism is higher when the economy is not as prosperous, however, the difference in judicial activism is only slight (between 5 and 10 percentage points).
		In sum, the evidence presented in Table 3 indicates that the contextual variables exert distinct influences on judicial activism, whereas that the effects of litigant characteristics and legal issues are negligible.
	www.isp.msu.edu /cers/randazz.htm (6777 words)

	Economic activism - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sayyid Qutab and Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of Social Justice in Islam (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia)
		The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism
		Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (Gender and American Culture)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /economic_activism.htm (327 words)

	The Six Premises for Harmonizing Prosperity with the Environment
		And though Capitalism has proven itself to be the superior economic system for creating material wealth, a fundamental flaw in the current Capitalist system has created a crisis of success—material wealth abounds, but the by-products of its creation threaten to suffocate us.
		The main method of "Economic Activism" is to use the taxation system to assess costs for detrimental patterns of production and consumption, and to pay benefits to those who choose patterns of consumption and production beneficial to society.
		But what was once a wise use of “Economic Activism” no longer makes sense, especially when a major argument against the widespread use of renewable energy sources is their lack of competitiveness in the marketplace.
	www.richardwarrenfield.com /essay002.htm (2289 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Protestant Ethic Thesis
		Despite the psychological uncertainty Weber imputed to Puritans, their activism could be "not psychological and self-centered but theological and God-centered" (Bainton 1952, 252-53).
		That is, Puritan thinkers always viewed economic activity against the backdrop of social and moral obligation.
		They did not focus on Protestant values, but accepted "Weber's more general concept, that certain cultural factors influence economic growth..." Specifically they incorporated a measure of "achievement motivation" in their regressions and concluded that such motivation "is highly relevant to economic growth rates" (625).
	www.eh.net /encyclopedia/?article=frey.protestant.ethic (2798 words)

	Activism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change.
		In contemporary use, "activism" tends to be a word associated with the actions and ideologies of those on the political left.
		However, the activism industry includes organizations of many orientations.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/activism (144 words)

	JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IN POST-COMMUNIST STATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Economic factors and features of the executive and legislative branches influence judicial decision-making in predictable ways, however.
		Assessing the relationship between independence and activism is difficult because the concepts are interdependent.
		In order to assess the nature of the relationship between independence and activism we must identify the characteristics important to the development of an independent judiciary and examine these characteristics while controlling for additional influences on the exercise of activism.
	www.isp.msu.edu /cers/herron.htm (7583 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: New Deal in Georgia
		By the time Roosevelt came to office, Georgia's farmers, in desperate straits from years of depression and low cotton prices, were echoing the demands of the 1890s Populists for government intervention in agricultural affairs.
		In economic terms, however, the small landowner actually gained less from the federal programs than did planters who owned larger and more mechanized farms.
		In spite of Roosevelt's endorsement, Camp ran a distant third, and George was reelected, signaling the conservative turn the state was taking by the late 1930s toward stricter economic measures and away from the New Deal's social and economic planning.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2733 (2236 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Reality and Rhetoric, by P.T. Bauer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		...Rapid economic progress, including large-scale capital formation in agriculture by the local people, demonstrated the barrenness of the Western notion of some "vicious circle of poverty and stagnation" to be broken only by massive supplies of external capital...
		...Therefore, if significant economic advance is to be achieved, governments have an indispensable as well as comprehensive role in carrying through the critical and large-scale changes necessary to break down the formidable obstacles to, and initiate and sustain the process of, growth...
		...Finally, the economic activism inherent in the less developed world is something that has itself been historically thwarted by the policies of those committed to central planning and to the politicization of development...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V78I3P68-1.htm (1318 words)

	Journal of Third World Studies: Rethinking government economic activism in sub-Saharan Africa: Some contending issues ...
		Privatization, which has been embraced by governments in both developed and developing countries, has become the focal point of this debate.1 At the center of the debate is the contention by proponents of privatization that government is inherently inefficient, and that privatization would improve bureaucratic efficiency and the provision, at lower costs, of public services.
		The use of privatization as a strategy to limit government economic activism, however, generates some concerns that need to be addressed in the context of the region's realities.
		In Togo, for example, the rate fell from 22 percent in 1980 to 11 percent in 1995, Zambia's decline was dramatic, falling from 26 percent in 1980 to nine percent in 1995.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200104/ai_n8934870 (1349 words)

	Only One Place of Redress
		Like Sowell, Bernstein is a critic of government economic activism, but he stops short of advocating laissez-faire as a means to improve the economic status of African Americans.
		Although he writes in his introduction that "economic regulations tend to benefit those with political power at the expense of those without it" (p.
		Railroad unions, the subject of chapter three, were notorious for their exclusion of fl co-workers and for their creation of work rules that limited the use of low-wage labor.
	mason.gmu.edu /~dbernste/conrad.html (774 words)

	CCRH Community Histories - Essay
		Although people may find themselves sharing the same town, neighborhood, or cultural group, the multiple perspectives presented suggest the differing ways that residents have viewed the past based on their dissimilar experiences and perspectives.
		The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed dramatic economic changes in the Columbia Basin as former well-paying jobs in the timber, aluminum, and other industries disappeared and were replaced by lower-wage service jobs.
		Federal expenditures, entrepreneurship, immigrant and migrant labors, family ties, and community activism all contributed to the evolution and persistence of the region's communities.
	www.ccrh.org /comm/essay.htm (2874 words)

	Digital Infrastructure
		As a result, government economic development programs typically have an equity focus that is aimed at helping population groups and geographic regions that are in the lower quartiles of income, wealth, opportunity, and hope.
		Furthermore, in the competition between states and regions that economic development leaders assume, there is a competitive advantage in having telecommunications that is simply better than what the majority of regions can offer.
		This equalization of rates is appealing to state economic development leadership, because it does not add cost penalties to the more remote, rural areas of the state -- the geographic areas that are the emphasis in economic development programs.
	www.globaltelematics.com /digiinfrastruct.htm (3987 words)

	Aikido Activism: "business-as-part-activism" ( or "HOW to accelerate progress" ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In a post in the Economics Forum entitled $150 billion to end Global Poverty(http://www.omidyar.net/group/economics/news/2/) it is suggested that foriegn aid could help starving countries to grow economically and therefore start on a road to developing better lives for their people.
		I am not so sure that in the economic realm there has been much made yet of the idea of practicing economic battling with restraint, but my judgement is that as in the physical battling case, the strategy and tactics of practicing economic battling with restraint is the winning strategy.
		We are working on a form of sustainable economic activism (and a fully-functional progressive portal) that conbines an advanced shopping portal with intelligence feedback and ratings back to the consumer/user, based upon user selectable attributes (workers rights, environmental interaction, community interaction, advertising (no ads on sinclair or fox!), as well as an aggregate business rating.
	www.omidyar.net /group/community-general/news/188 (9037 words)

	Book Review: Hands Off: Why Government Is a Menace to Economic Health by Susan Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		First, she characterizes economics as a way of interpreting the effect of incentives on behavior.
		As for alternatives to Keynesian activism, Lee is generally friendly toward supply-side economics.
		The importance of incentives in economic behavior was well-trod territory.
	www.fee.org /vnews.php?nid=3659 (529 words)

	Activism ONLINE SHOP - www.eheee.com \| Shopping, Search, Mobile, News - Activism ONLINE SHOP
		The Village Voice: Tech Wars in Meat Space by Erik Baard Article on new less-lethal weapons police are looking at using to control protests, and new high tech devices being used by protestors.
		Jose Bove Statement in court by French farmer, explaining his decision to illegally destroy genetically modified corn used by McDonalds in Europe.
		Woodstock Electronic Press Reports on activism, protest, and conflict from sources around the world.
	www.eheee.com /dir_361_0_0__0_Activism.html (257 words)

	Ways Churches Can Respond to Contextual Change
		Another response to contextual shifts is for local congregations to become involved in various forms of social action and social ministry.
		Wolfgang Bielefeld, Randy Cantrell, and George Donohue in "Economic Activism of Minnesota Churches in Two Regions" (article 4-11) examined how churches are involved in their communities' economic issues.
		They found that industrial and economic strength and community and church size were related to church economic activism.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/kulmer/rsse/html/wayschur.html (627 words)

	Missouri Alternatives Center Resource Collection
		Summary: This manual is a blueprint for adapting the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet) cooperative economic development strategies to fight poverty and support local economic empowerment, including how to set up a "community kitchen incubator" to serve as a communication focal point and a shared production facility for microenterprises.
		It also discusses boycotts, shareholder activism, challenging corporate charters, making loans to socially conscious businesses and organizations, and how to develop and support land trusts, barter and work exchange systems, community supported agriculture, and indigenous peoples' development projects.
		Also featured are some successful examples of retailers who differentiate their products with green marketing, and many case studies of farmers and community groups organizing themselves to take greater control of the food marketing chain.
	agebb.missouri.edu /mac/library/search.asp?search_val=305 (1989 words)

	CorpWatch : World Economic Forum Protests Pose New Challenges for Anti-Globalization Movements
		The World Economic Forum (WEF), a cocktail party on steroids for elite business and political leaders usually held in the mountain resort of Davos, Switzerland, is set for January 31st - February 3rd.
		This year, the WEF decided to move the gathering to New York City, in what it says is show of solidarity with the victims of the September 11th attacks.
		This gathering of tens of thousands of participants under the slogan "Another World is Possible" is meant to bring alternatives to neo-liberal orthodoxy to life.
	www.warprofiteers.com /article.php?id=1468 (977 words)

	Social Action:Jewish Issues
		Which economic justice issue today demands your attention and involvement--sweatshops, Third World debt, welfare reform, globalization of trade, income distribution, hunger, another issue?--and how can we respond as Jews?
		The Torah, Talmud and other Jewish texts provide a rich source of meaning and motivation to sustain and renew us in social justice struggles that are often long, difficult and draining.
		This chapter has for obvious reasons been extremely important to Jewish and other faith-based economic justice activists.
	www.socialaction.com /beforeend1999/risingtide1of2.phtml (904 words)

	NathanNewman.org
		But as long as liberals don't agitate to make this kind of court-driven economic assault "news", you'll end up with all the attention on courts being "activist" on social issues, with none of the attention on court activism on economic issues that effect working families.
		Posted by: surfk9 at December 2, 2003 08:54 PM Anonymous-- the definition of judicial activism is the unelected branch- judges-- second-guessing elected officials.
		I would say this case is, if anything, the nasty opposite of judicial activism: courts looking to the literal language of a statute or rule rather than solving the problem in front of them guided by the policy concerns that promted the creation of the rule.
	www.nathannewman.org /log/archives/001405.shtml (2806 words)

	Activism
		Act Together: Women Against Sanctions on Iraq - A group of UK-based Iraqi and non-Iraqi women opposed to war, sanctions and ocupation of Iraq.
		End the Iraqi Sanctions Now - Economic sanctions against Iraq are killing innocent children by depriving them of clean water and goods necessary for survival.
		Global Movement to End the War against Iraq - Calls the sanctions a form of hostility and for the end of the sanctions against Iraq.
	www.supercrawler.com /Society/Issues/Economic/Sanctions/Iraq/Activism (370 words)

	Activism
		Statement in court by French farmer, explaining his decision to illegally destroy genetically modified corn used by McDonalds in Europe.
		Article on new less-lethal weapons police are looking at using to control protests, and new high tech devices being used by protestors.
		Reports on activism, protest, and conflict from sources around the world.
	directoriogratis.com /xml.php?c=/Society/Activism (184 words)

	Anitra L. Freeman: Homelessness & Poverty Activism, for Economic Justice
		Anitra L. Freeman: Homelessness and Poverty Activism, for Economic Justice
		People who believe that it is essential to build a prosperous community for everyone; that poverty and homelessness are not morally tolerable.
		When growing numbers of people are living in economic insecurity in the midst of one of the most prosperous periods in a prosperous region, something is fundamentally broken in our society.
	www.anitra.net /homelessness/faqs/activism (636 words)

	Omniseek: Lifestyle: /Lifestyle /Activism /Economic Sanctions on Iraq /
		an expanding coalition that coordinates cooperation between student organizations in the campaign to lift the current economic sanctions enforced by the UN against Iraq, which have had a frightful effect on the innocent citizens of Iraq.
		Urging him to oppose economic sanctions and other violence against Iraq - also links on depleted uranium, resignation of Denis Halliday, food for oil, "dual use," manipulation of UNSCOM and harassment of U.S. citizens who have brought medicine to Iraq.
		Voices in the Wilderness delegations journey to Iraq to break the siege and bring desperately needed medical supplies to children and families, and return with eyewitness accounts of the unheeded cries of the Iraqi people.
	lifestyle.omniseek.com /srch/{7649} (757 words)

	ACTIVISM: Find a Cause to Support at SociallyResponsible.Org
		Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends.
		Please sign the petition urging your senators to vote to protect the Arctic wildlife refuge.
		Help us keep this board as maintenance-free as possible by communicating early and often.
	www.sociallyresponsible.com /ACTIVISM.htm (1959 words)

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