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I've spent my life as a warrior, working for women's issues, working on political campaigns, being an activist for the environment.
Now, on paper, she passed my "smoking ears" test: (Laughter) she's an activist from the Right, and I'm an activist from the Left.
Two thousand miles away in Peshawar, Pakistani transgender activist Alisha was shot multiple times in May 2016.
And surely, at three and four years old, I was listening to the soothing sound of her voice, but I think I was also getting my first lesson in activist work.
The activists I interviewed had nothing in common, literally, except for one thing, which was that they all cited their mothers as their most looming and important activist influences.
On the second floor, we have bright, open, airy spaces to support a constellation of activist organizations to amplify their cry of "Healthcare Not Handcuffs," and "Housing as a human right."
On the left there's a photo taken by an Egyptian activist who was part of the storming of the Egyptian state security offices in March.
And one activist actually found a contract from a Western company for the sale of surveillance technology to the Egyptian security forces.
As Riadh Guerfali, the veteran digital activist from Tunisia, remarked over this incident, "Before, things were simple: you had the good guys on one side and the bad guys on the other.
Just look at the terrorist who became a peace activist.
There's activist journalism, humanitarian journalism, peace journalism, and we are all looking to cover the important stories of our time.
My name is Ashley Graham, and I'm a model and body activist.
Tan Le, anonymous Footscray resident, was now Tan Le, refugee and social activist, invited to speak in venues she had never heard of and into homes whose existence she could never have imagined.
As a young middle-class Nigerian activist, I launched myself along with a whole generation of us into the campaign to stop the government.
I was forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo, my home, where I was a student activist.
And, of course, I’m dedicating it also to my grandmother, whom I think really played quite a lot of important roles, especially for me when I was an activist, and being harassed by the police.
Nelson decided to become a treatment activist and join up with other groups.
I was not an activist.
Enter the evidence-based activist, the factivist.
I became a little bit radical, I was a member of leftist parties, and I became an activist.
Many people tell me that you are a photojournalist, that you are an anthropologist photographer, that you are an activist photographer.
Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist, said, "When parents say, 'I wish my child did not have autism,' what they're really saying is, 'I wish the child I have did not exist and I had a different, nonautistic child instead.' Read that again.
So I have no clue, really, how I became an activist.
Later that year, an activist helped me escape China and go to the United States as a refugee.
That I chose to look at sex comes from my background in HIV/AIDS, as a writer and a researcher and an activist.
What I didn't realize at the time, however, was that I had become an activist, I could change something, that even as a kid, or maybe even especially as a kid, my voice mattered, and your voice matters too.
And as an activist, that was not good enough.
One prominent Bahraini activist, who was arrested and tortured by his government, has said that the interrogators showed him transcripts of his telephone calls and text messages.
For example, in addition to being an activist, I'm also a professional stand-up comedian.
Dr. Ma Thida, a leading human rights activist who had nearly died in prison and had spent many years in solitary confinement, told me she was grateful to her jailers for the time she had had to think, for the wisdom she had gained, for the chance to hone her meditation skills.
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