activist

Examples of activist in the following topics:

• Women of the Civil Rights Movement

  • Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist.
  • On August 31 of 1962, Hamer traveled on a rented bus with other activists to Indianola, Mississippi, to register to vote.
  • Younge and Paris grew to become profound activists and organizers under Hamer's tutelage.
  • Viola Liuzzo was a Unitarian Universalist civil rights activist from Michigan.
  • Ella Baker was an integral activist in the Civil Rights movement, championing the idea of participatory democracy.

• Political Art: LGBT Rights and the AIDS Crisis

  • Some younger activists, seeing gay and lesbian as increasingly normative and politically conservative, began using queer as a defiant statement of all sexual minorities and gender variant people—just as the earlier liberationists had done with gay.
  • DIVA-TV, an acronym for "Damned Interfering Video Activist Television," was an affinity group within ACT UP that videotaped and documented AIDS activism.
  • In the video, Ray Navarro, an ACT UP/DIVA TV activist, serves as the narrator, dressed up as Jesus.
  • DIVA TV continued documenting the direct actions of ACT UP, activists, and the community responses to HIV/AIDS, producing over 160 video programs for public access television channels.
  • Queer Nation was another AIDS-focused activist organization, formed in 1990 in New York City by AIDS activists from ACT UP.

• American Indian Rights

  • American Indian activists at this time also strove for media protection and to own their own media.
  • Since Alcatraz penitentiary had been closed on March 21, 1963, and the island had been declared surplus federal property in 1964, a number of activists felt the island qualified for reclamation.
  • The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an activist organization in the United States founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by urban American Indians.
  • In 1972, AIM activists marched across the country on what was called the Trail of Broken Treaties.
  • The activists took over the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), occupying it for several days and causing millions of dollars of damage.

• Black and White Abolitionism

  • African-American activists and their writings were rarely heard outside the black community; however, they were tremendously influential to some sympathetic white people, most prominently the first white activist to reach prominence, William Lloyd Garrison [], who was its most effective propagandist.
  • Garrison's efforts to recruit eloquent spokesmen led to the discovery of ex-slave Frederick Douglass [], who eventually became a prominent activist in his own right.

• Ethical Barriers

  • The anti-globalization movement is a worldwide activist movement that is critical of the globalization of capitalism.
  • Anti-globalization activists are particularly critical of the undemocratic nature of capitalist globalization and the promotion of neoliberalism by international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
  • Labor, economic, and environmental activists succeeded in disrupting and closing the meetings due to their disapproval of corporate globalization.

• Latino Rights

  • Prior to the movement of the 1960s and 70s, Mexican American civil rights activists had achieved several major legal victories.
  • Roybal ran for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council, community activists established the Community Service Organization (CSO) which effectively registered 15,000 new voters in Latino neighborhoods.
  • Early activists adopted a historical account of the preceding 125 years, highlighting an obscured portion of Mexican-American history.
  • These activists identified the failure of the United States government to live up to the promises it had made in Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
  • When the movement faced practical challenges in the 1960s, most activists chose to focus on the immediate issues of unequal educational and employment opportunities, political disfranchisement, and police brutality.

• Legislative Agendas

  • The political agenda while shaped by government can be influenced by grassroots support from party activists at events, such as a party conference, and can even be shaped by non-governmental activist groups which have a political aim.

• Judicial Activism and Restraint

  • The definition of judicial activism and which specific decisions are activist, is a controversial political issue.

• Short-term gains, long-term pain

  • For example, MacMillan Bloedel, one of Canada's largest forest product companies, was labelled a serial forest-clearer and a chronic chlorine user by environmental activists and subsequently lost 5% of its sales almost overnight when it was dropped as a UK supplier by Scott Paper and Kimberley Clark.

• The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

  • Most of the credit for progress toward racial equality in the Unites States lies with grassroots activists.
  • During the 1960s, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities.
  • Grassroots civil rights activist Ella Baker pushed for a “participatory Democracy” that built on the grassroots campaigns of active citizens instead of deferring to the leadership of educated elites and experts.
  • In the city, he found a divided civil rights movement: older activists who supported his policy of nonviolence and younger African Americans who advocated a more militant approach.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman and activist who championed racial equality through nonviolence yet fierce resistance.