
	Where results make sense

Topic: Political activists

Related Topics

Phil Hendrie

2001

In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	The X-Men: The story of activists-turned-political consultants
		An activist has the kind of skills that aren't taught in school and the kind of skills for which you don't get a diploma.
		When he or she returns to his hometown from college in Manila, with or without a diploma, he or she becomes an asset, with talents that would be easily parlayed by politicians in need of organizers, propagandists, and operatives.
		As teenagers, we committed to memory the whole spectrum of Philippine politics, and we knew by heart the nature and characteristics of social classes.
	www.pcij.org /imag/2004Elections/Campaign/x-men.html (733 words)

	Activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The terms activism and activist used in a political manner first appeared in the Belgian press in 1916 in connection with the Flamingant movement.
		In the more confrontational cases, an activist may be called a freedom fighter by some, and a terrorist by others, depending on whether the commentator supports the activist's ends.
		Wade decision, and perhaps earlier, in the United States "activist" has often been used as a pejorative for those judges who seek to redress social ills through judicial rather than legislative action.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_activist (235 words)

	Political Activists, Schema-Root news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		political activists of all stripes in those states use it to "send a message" to politicians while avoiding the "spoiler" and "wasted vote" problems that...
		At the same time, under the initiative of the consulate, political activists are to be scattered along the marathon's route waving signs of empathy for...
		The Mall is a stage for political dissent, and the political force of that dissent, for lack of better metrics, is measured by the size of the crowd.
	schema-root.org /people/political/activists (2450 words)

	A Profile of Political Activists: Women of the West Virginia Woman Suffrage Movement
		Political movements such as that for woman suffrage are initiated and carried out by individuals whose motives, ideals, and actions explain much about the results of the movements of which they were a part.
		In developing a collective biography of West Virginia's women suffragists, 115 women active in the movement were identified from historical studies of the West Virginia suffrage movement, biographical dictionaries of West Virginia women and men, collections of personal papers and memoirs, and newspaper coverage of the suffragists and their activities.
		In addition, political sympathies and cultural identification rooted in the Civil War period tied much of the southern and eastern parts of the state to conservative southern ideals of social structure and family roles, contributing to rejection of reform in general, especially reform emanating from northern progressives.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh49-8.html (5488 words)

	Political repression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Political repression is the oppression or persecution of an individual or group for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take part in the political life of society.
		Political repression may be represented by discriminatory policies, surveillance abuse, police misconduct including police brutality, and violent action such as the murder or forced disappearance of political activists and dissidents.
		Where political repression is sanctioned and organised by the state, it may constitute state terrorism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_repression (297 words)

	Freedom fighters or criminals?
		However, those working to free U.S. political prisoners in the U.S. say America has a history of imprisoning its own citizens because of their political ideology, and has never been "the home of the free" at all.
		Bukhari agrees that the purpose of the federal government’s jailing of political activists is to break the causes for which the activists were fighting.
		For the leadership of the political movements, they have this impression that by cutting off the head, they could destroy the movements themselves because they assume that the movements are built around charismatic figures who sometimes have strong initiatives.
	www.finalcall.com /national/1999/political_pris9-7-1999.htm (1553 words)

	Activists
		Feminist activist, first Asian-American woman as well as woman of color to be elected to Congress.
		Political scientist whose work has addressed the role of welfare as a form of political and economic control over the poor and the working class.
		Activist journalist; her award-winning book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, highlighted the far-reaching impact of global corporations on culture and poverty.
	collegeten.ucsc.edu /activists.shtml (695 words)

	Decision2004: Political activists blanket Florida
		Passionate partisans in politically irrelevant states from Alabama to California are starting to pour into America's biggest political battleground.
		It's a familiar refrain for political activists from "safe states" that are clearly going for John Kerry or George Bush.
		The political tourists are hitting all parts of Florida and come from both sides of the aisle.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/09/29/Decision2004/Political_activists_b.shtml (829 words)

	1830: Workers as Political Activists
		Revolution of 1830 displayed that they had well formulated political ideas of their own.
		The conflicting goals of the artisan workers and the new "bourgeois monarchy" resulted in confusion, because neither group understood or cared where the other was coming from.
		he revolution of 1830, as seen in Les Miserables, was the starting point for the workers involvement in politics, for it allowed the workers to unify and demand their rights, and by doing so, showed the upper classes that the working class too had a voice in French society.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist255/la/1830.html (520 words)

	Famous Diabetics--POLITICAL LEADERS ACTIVISTS ROYALTY,CONGRESSMAN,REPRESENTATIVES
		After several appeals, Italy's highest court in 1996 definitively convicted Craxi in one trial involving illegal financing of political parties, the crime at the heart of corruption scandals of the early 1990s.
		Craxi, 65, once a major political kingpin and one of Italy's longest-serving premiers in the 1980s, had been in poor health for years, suffering from complications of diabetes.
		Born on March 8, 1925, Devlin began political life as an idealistic member of the IRA and served a three-year prison sentence starting in 1942 for membership of the outlawed group.
	www.angelarose.com /FamousDiabetics/Fam-Political.htm (5611 words)

	Press Releases: Nepal, Nepal: Government, Maoists target political activists
		Nepal's main political parties have announced they will launch a nationwide strike on Thursday to protest the elections, while Maoist rebels have vowed to disrupt the voting.
		Several political leaders, including the leaders of the chief opposition parties, the Congress Party and the United Marxist Leninist party, were placed under house arrest last week in an attempt to stop political protests.
		Hundreds of activists and members of civil society were placed under house arrest or detained around the country.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-6LE8QS?OpenDocument (735 words)

	t r u t h o u t - F.B.I. Harassing Political Activists
		F.B.I. officials are urging agents to canvass their communities for information about planned disruptions aimed at the convention and other coming political events, and they say they have developed a list of people who they think may have information about possible violence.
		They said the initiative was part of a broader, nationwide effort to follow any leads pointing to possible violence or illegal disruptions in connection with the political conventions, presidential debates or the November election, which come at a time of heightened concern about a possible terrorist attack.
		The issue is a particularly sensitive one in Denver, where the police agreed last year to restrictions on local intelligence-gathering operations after it was disclosed that the police had kept files on some 3,000 people and 200 groups involved in protests.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/081704V.shtml (1634 words)

	Political activists... - Anime Academy Lounge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Their political views are just as trivial as their diets, their relationships and everything else.
		And Lex, I want them to share their opinions, but why do I have to pain their expressions, if these activist had any respect in them I wouldn't bother, but when they start harrising you because of your politic preferences is where I get angry and what I argue on my first post.
		Meh, political activists...as long as they don't come up to me and tell me to vote for Kerry or whomever, let 'em be total frickin' morons.
	www.animeacademy.com /forums/showthread.php?t=15773 (1355 words)

	No-fly blacklist snares political activists
		They suggested that the activists were stopped not because their names are on the list, but because their names resemble those of suspected criminals or terrorists.
		While Gordon, Adams and several of the detained activists acknowledged minor past arrests or citations for participating in nonviolent sit-in or other trespassing protests, FBI spokesman Carter said individuals would have to be "involved in criminal activity" -- not just civil disobedience -- to be banned from U.S. airlines.
		Lawinger, one of the Wisconsin activists stopped at the Milwaukee airport on April 19, said she didn't get upset when two sheriff's deputies escorted her for questioning.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/27/MN181034.DTL (1686 words)

	Activists Spur Movement to Mobilize US Political Moderates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Political activists, frustrated by the polarized nature of American politics, have decided to do something about it in time for the next U.S. presidential election in 2008.
		Jordan says he is aware that peeling away support from the Republican and Democratic parties in a congressional election year, one when activists in both parties are energized, is a major challenge.
		Political analysts point to opinion polls in recent years that show a growing number of Americans have become disenchanted with what they see as polarized politics in Washington.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-06-23-voa16.cfm (761 words)

	OCS Study MMS 98-0042 -- How Political Activists See Offshore Oil Development
		It is also intended to explore the role of political leaders in a case of what some might label a NIMBY ("Not in My Backyard") response to a proposed local development.
		The interviews were conducted with four different types of groups: (1) Democratic political activists; (2) Republican political activists; (3) pro-environmental political activists; and (4) pro-development political activists.
		In fact, the label NIMBY may tell us little other than that a local political dispute exists and that the key element of the dispute is about the risks associated with the proposal.
	www.mms.gov /omm/pacific/enviro/ocsstudy98-0042.htm (910 words)

	HYDERABAD: Arrests of political activists condemned -DAWN - Local; February 15, 2006
		It demanded that political activists arrested in the Gadap area of Karachi should be immediately released.
		In a statement issued here on Monday, party leader Ayaz Latif Palijo alleged that on the one hand criminals had been inducted into power in Sindh and on the other, political activists were being eliminated in extra-judicial killings.
		He claimed that a large number of political activists were being held incommunicado by authorities.
	www.dawn.com /2006/02/15/local30.htm (383 words)

	CNN.com - Amnesty report: Political activists risk detention in Egypt - September 19, 2000
		Muslim Brotherhood leaders said Monday that 200 of their activists and sympathizers have been detained in the last three months across the country.
		the risk of political activists being detained has increased significantly, apparently to prevent them from standing as candidates or participating in elections," added the report.
		Kassem's group has said its activities have been severely restricted in recent months because the government has made it impossible to raise funds, and that it was unsure it would be able to participate in election monitoring as it had done in 1995.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/09/19/egypt.rights.ap (633 words)

	Village Voice: NYPD Spying on Political Activists
		It was NYPD intelligence commissioner David Cohen's promise to create rules for self-monitoring that sealed the deal for U.S. district court judge Charles Haight, when he recently agreed to loose police from a 1985 court order that regulates the surveillance of constitutionally protected activity.
		And for accountability, approved political investigations were confined to a single police unit.
		We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
	www.refuseandresist.org /police_state/art.php?aid=619 (1739 words)

	Canadian Conservative MP Calls Christian Political Activists “Taliban” and “Flowers of Evil”
		In a later blog entry Turner labeled those who share McVety’s political and religious views as “people who share his divine Kool-Aid,” (http://www.garth.ca/weblog/page/5/">http://www.garth.ca/weblog/page/5/) an apparent reference to the infamous Jonestown Massacre of 1978, during which 913 members of the Peoples Temple cult committed mass suicide by drinking grape-flavoured Kool-Aid laced with potassium cyanide.
		And in another post he called those who would attempt to nominate politicians whose politics is informed by their faith as “religious vigilantes,” (http://www.garth.ca/weblog/page/2/">http://www.garth.ca/weblog/page/2/) and elsewhere, “single-issue monochromatic militants” (http://www.garth.ca/weblog/page/6/">http://www.garth.ca/weblog/page/6/).
		In a political sense, these highly-motivated voters are not going to let their views be ignored.” Turner continues, admitting that he has also had strong reservations, “about the wisdom of the Liberal move to change the definition of marriage, especially without a whole lot more public input and debate.”
	www.lifesite.net /ldn/2006/jun/06060907.html (1020 words)

	USAID/Pakistan/Governance/News: U.S. Ambassador: Democracy Essential to Development
		NDI has organized a series of training workshops in Punjab, Baluchistan and Sindh Provinces for activists of all political stripes.
		These sessions, intended to enhance leadership skills and help participants better understand the nature and principles of politics, are part of USAID’s broader program to strengthen key democratic institutions in the lead up to 2007 national elections in Pakistan.
		At last weekend’s event in Lahore, participants were required to develop and present ideas for projects that could be carried out by their political parties.
	www.usaid.gov /pk/governance/news/101305_political_activists (184 words)

	Political Activism Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Progressive Party - The New Party is a growing, progressive, independent party that focuses on grassroots organizing and local politics.
		One Democracy is a political activism website trying to find a niche in the online world.
		Voices - UCLA Youth Enhancement Service's political and media databases/index.
	www.kimsoft.com /kimpol.htm (641 words)

	[No title]
		Political dissidents have always been the target of government repression and corporate surveillance.
		At the same time it is important to not allow fear-mongers to scare you away from political participation.
		Basic tips to make security consciousness part of your group's activist mentality without diverting you from your goals.
	www.publiceye.org /liberty/Security_for_Activists.htm (177 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Net activism offers lessons for ministers
		The increasing use of the internet by political activists could provide valuable lessons for the UK Government, say experts.
		It provides aggregated power to challenge the opinions of the political establishment," she said.
		The BBC is keen to do its bit to re-ignite interest in politics.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/2496363.stm (645 words)

	Scoop: Myanmar: Arrests of political activists increase
		With Aung San Suu Kyi due to spend her 60th birthday under house arrest on 19 June, Amnesty International is issuing a report detailing new arrests of political activists and the situation of Aung San Suu Kyi and hundreds of other prisoners of conscience and political prisoners of long-standing concern.
		The organisation is launching a global petition calling on the Burmese authorities to stop abusing the justice system to silence peaceful political activists and to immediately and unconditionally release all prisoners of conscience.
		The Burmese authorities have detained hundreds of opposition party members, including members of the NLD and student activists, since demonstrations against one party rule in 1988 and after elections in 1990, in which the NLD won the majority of seats.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0506/S00260.htm (1001 words)

	Political Issues, San Diego Chapter, Sierra Club
		The Political Committee is a group of Sierra Club volunteers who share an interest in the political process and who recognize the importance of an informed voter public as a critical element in our efforts to protect our wild areas.
		For political endorsements, click back to the Chapter home page and select "political endorsements" under "take action" in the left-hand column.
		The Club carefully separates political education from political endorsements for tax reasons.
	sandiego.sierraclub.org /political (114 words)

	Salon.com: Grounded by Federal Blacklist
		And in an interview with Salon, the official suggested that Olshansky and other political activists may be on a separate list that subjects them to strict scrutiny but allows them to fly.
		She says that the charge from that incident was a misdemeanor, an infraction that would not seem enough to establish her as a threat to aviation.
		Meanwhile, nobody in the federal government has explained why so many law-abiding but mostly left-leaning political activists and antiwar activists are being harassed at check-in time at airports.
	www.refuseandresist.org /police_state/art.php?aid=573 (2098 words)

	FBI action on political activists questioned
		Anti-war activist Rachael Perrotta was sitting on the front steps of a friend's house in Boston when four men approached her and told her they were from the FBI.
		For 20 minutes, Perrotta said, the agents ignored her refusals to respond and continued to question her about possible violence during the presidential race and about other anti-war protesters in what government officials say was an attempt to prevent violence during election-year political events.
		The FBI acknowledges it has interviewed dozens of political activists across the country in recent weeks, having received intelligence "that individuals were planning to conduct violent criminal activity" at the Democratic convention in Boston last month, and the coming Republican National Convention in New York.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/187312_fbi21.html (728 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)