activists

Activists are individuals that typically seek social or political reform through protest, community organization, boycotts and rallies. Their opposition to the status quo reflects their belief that through community awareness their needs can be met.

Activists usually solicit the assistance of politicians and community leaders in seeking to have their needs and the needs of the community satisfied. They usually implement a grassroots approach, though many activists are affiliated with national causes.

The goal of many activists is to call attention to an otherwise overlooked issue affecting their community, so that governmental or social change may arise from that awareness.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “activists”

 

• Eurovision does little to help human rights in Azerbaijan

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Eurovision does little to help human rights in Azerbaijan This year’s host city, Baku, has had a makeover but journalists and activists say that under the surface, life is as grim as everElnur Majidli, a shy 22-year-old Azeri, lowered his voice when he talked about the time he ...
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• Israel offers compensation to Mavi Marmara flotilla raid victims

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Israel offers compensation to Mavi Marmara flotilla raid victims £4m paid to Jewish foundation in Turkey, which will distribute the money to the victims and their familiesThe Israeli government has offered £4m in compensation to the families of Turkish activists killed by ...
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• How About Defending Speech Because It’s Speech, Not Because You Agree With It?

  
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  Popehat May 24, 2012 Earlier today, in the course of discussing possible jackass/possible troll/possible mentally ill person  George Tierney, Jr.,  I asked people to consider calling out vengeful would-be censors because they are vengeful would-be censors, not because the victim of the moment is on “our ...
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• Ruling Party Wins Big in Algerian Elections

  
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  Ruling Party Wins Big in Algerian ElectionsReviewed by Adminnews on May 24.Rating: Algeria on Friday.......
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• Azerbaijani police break up opposition rally in runup to Eurovision

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Azerbaijani police break up opposition rally in runup to Eurovision Officers arrest more than 30 protesters in Baku as human rights groups condemn government’s authoritarianismPolice have broken up an opposition rally in the Azerbaijani capital and detained dozens of activists ...
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• REPORT: China deteriorating on human rights

  
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  China’s record on human rights deteriorated as the Chinese government engaged in widespread and expanding severe repression of its own people and ethnic minorities in 2011, the State Department said in a new report released today. “Deterioration in key aspects of the country’s human rights situation continued. ...
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• India Ink: Image of the Day: May 24

  
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  http://www.nytimes.com/ India Ink: Image of the Day: May 24 Telugu Desam Party activists in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh protest 7.54 rupee petrol price hike by the Indian government. published date:Thu, 24 May 2012 15:00:24 GMT
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• Petrol price hike fuels protests, opposition ire (Roundup)

  
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  New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Street protests rocked parts of India against a sharp hike in petrol prices that the opposition denounced as an assault on the common man.Both in metros and smaller towns, opposition activists took to the streets raising slogans against the government and, in some cases, clashing with ...
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• Turkey to charge Israeli military officials involved in Gaza flotilla raid

  
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  http://www.telegraph.co.uk Turkey to charge Israeli military officials involved in Gaza flotilla raid Turkey will charge four senior Israeli military officials responsible for the raid of a flotilla bound for Gaza for the deaths of nine Turkish activists killed in the operation, as diplomatic relations ...
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• President Obama Has to Explain Why Fairness is Essential to Growth (and Why Some Democrats Have to Stop Believing Otherwise)

  
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  By Robert Reich The Cory Booker imbroglio has ignited a silly but potentially pernicious debate in the Democratic Party between so-called “pro-growth centrists” who want the President to focus on how well he’s done getting the economy back on its feet after the Bush administration almost knocked it out, and ...
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• Vietnam Jails 3 for Anti-Government Leaflets

  
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  http://abcnews.go.com Vietnam Jails 3 for Anti-Government Leaflets Vietnam jails 3 activists for distributing anti-government leaflets published date:Thu, 24 May 2012 04:31:53 -0400
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• Human rights violated across former Soviet Union: Amnesty

  
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  London, May 24 (IANS) Human rights violations — including harassment to journalists for exposing abuses — are still widespread across countries of the former Soviet Union, rights group Amnesty International has said.In Russia, the picture was “mixed”, said the report.“As elsewhere in the region, human ...
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• Chen Guangcheng brother flees captors

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Chen Guangcheng brother flees captors Chen Guangfu arrives in Beijing after following in blind activist’s footsteps in making daring escape from village in eastern ChinaThe brother of the Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has fled his family’s captors in a second audacious ...
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• Group launches tour to end abortion in Canada

  
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  A Canadian pro-life group is retracing the steps that abortion activists took in the country during the 1970s, but with the goal of repealing local abortion laws. Read the full story here: www.catholicnewsagency.com
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• Cyber Warfare Signs: the South China Sea Affair

  
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  The cyber attacks between China and Philippines raise questions about our own cyber-security and what the western worlds role is in cyber warfare.
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• Vietnam: Free Catholic Activists

  
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  Tweet Widget Facebook Like Vietnamese authorities should immediately release four Catholic activists accused of conducting propaganda against the state and drop the charges against them.   (Bangkok) – Vietnamese authorities should immediately ...
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• Virginia Right! Will Be Attending RightOnline in Las Vegas June 15-16, 2012 – Who’s Going?

  
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  Virginia Right! will be attending the RightOnline Conference as an Official Blogger on June 15 – 16, 2012 at the Venetian! Are you planning on attending? The conference is only $79.00 for the weekend and if you use the discount code “fightbackonline” (without the quotes) you can get in for $10 off – ...
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• Ukraine’s bold female fighters plot to storm the Euros

  
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  KIEV: Anna darts gleefully around the two sparsely-furnished rooms situated through an archway off a steep street that climbs up from Kiev’s Independence Square. She is a general showing off her new headquarters. “This is going to be our training room for our Euro strikes,” she says. “That’s for the girls ...
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• Eurovision host Azerbaijan arrests protesters – video

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Eurovision host Azerbaijan arrests protesters – video Opposition activists in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, have been arrested by police after skirmishes broke out during demonstrations to demand improved human rights conditions published date:Tue, 22 May 2012 14:28:48 GMT
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• Catalyzing action for Internet freedom

  
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    Reps from 40 countries descend on D.C. for Google conference Ijust arrived in Washington, D.C., for a conference with the goal of protecting freedom of expression on the Internet. Organized by Google, Internet at Liberty (they could have done better on the name) will “explore the most pressing dilemmas and ...
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