political activism

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• political activism — state of being active in politics, dealing with partisan issues …   English contemporary dictionary

• Activism at Ohio Wesleyan University — Activism was embedded in the very vision for founding of Ohio Wesleyan UniversityHubbart, p. 10] and has played an important role in its history.cite web | url = http://admission.owu.edu/faqs whyowu.html#reputation | title = Why OWU | publisher …   Wikipedia

• Activism industry — The activism industry is composed of organizations and individuals who make a living from activism, involvement in action to bring about change. The number of organizations who employ people to perform this work is sufficiently large that… …   Wikipedia

• Political spectrum — A political spectrum (plural spectra) is a way of modeling different political positions by placing them upon one or more geometric axes symbolizing independent political dimensions.Most long standing spectra include a right wing and left wing,… …   Wikipedia

• Political entrepreneur — The term Political entrepreneur may refer to any of the following:* someone (usually active in the fields of either politics or business) who founds a new political project, group, or political party* a businessman who seeks to gain profit… …   Wikipedia

• Political campaigner — A political campaigner (or political activist) is someone (generally not a politician) involved in political campaigning, that is, lobbying the government and politicians on political issues (such as the environment) and encouraging other… …   Wikipedia

• activism — [[t]æ̱ktɪvɪzəm[/t]] N UNCOUNT Activism is the process of campaigning in public or working for an organization in order to bring about political or social change. He believed in political activism to achieve justice …   English dictionary

• activism — Synonyms and related words: act, acting, action, activeness, activity, behavior, business, doing, doings, employment, exercise, function, functioning, goings on, militancy, motion, movement, movements, occupation, operation, operations, play,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• political prisoner — noun A person imprisoned for no other reason than his political views or political activism See Also: prisoner of conscience …   Wiktionary

• Activism, Inc. — Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America is a book by Columbia University sociologist Dana Fisher, based on an ethnographic study of Fund for Public Interest Research canvass… …   Wikipedia

• Political aspects of Islam — are derived from the Quran, the Sunna, Muslim history and sometimes elements of political movements outside Islam. Traditional political concepts in Islam include leadership by successors to the Prophet known as Caliphs, (Imamate for Shia); the… …   Wikipedia