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 Stories About: grassroots activism AND heroes AND interview
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Majora League
An interview with Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx |
Amanda Griscom Little |
28 Sep 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Majora Carter is no ordinary environmental leader. For starters: She's a woman, she's black, and she's not afraid to publicly challenge Al Gore. Majora Carter. Photos: Sustainable South Bronx In 2005, she was honored with a MacArthur "genius grant" for her work with Sustainable South Bronx, a group she founded to mobilize grassroots environmental activism among New Yo ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, heroes, interview, New York (all these topics) |
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Prize Fighters
Interviews with the 2003 winners of environmentalism's greatest honor |
Michelle Nijhuis |
14 Apr 2003 |
Main Dish |
| These are dark times for grassroots activists. Just weeks ago, President Bush dismissed millions of anti-war protesters as little more than a "focus group" -- a group whose opinions he was determined to ignore, and did. But the indifference of the world's sole superpower is only one of the obstacles facing activists. Today's problems are often international in scale and ... |
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| Topics: grassroots activism, heroes, interview (all these topics) |
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