Sentences with phrase «outspoken activist who»

A few months later, while driving home from work, Reiss got a call from colleagues of Ric O'Barry, another outspoken activist who had met with Puig.

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However, those who believe that the churches can play a role in those problems have never pinned their hopes on the silent majority of clergy.4 Rather, they believe in an impending reformation based on the outspoken minority — a New Breed of theologically liberal, activist clergymen.

Hindutva can be as violent as radical Islam, says John Dayal, an outspoken Catholic intellectual and activist who formerly led the All India Christian Council.

Nixon has been an outspoken activist for public education and other progressive causes, and is close to Mayor de Blasio, who has been at war with Cuomo.

When I asked European parliamentarian Martin Häusling, an outspoken anti-GMO activist who owns an organic farm and dairy in central Germany, whether science would ever be able to prove to him transgenic crops were safe, he said I was missing the point.

Since her Top Chef debut 11 years ago, India's first supermodel (who started modeling at age 21, after graduating from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a degree in theater arts and American literature) has also become an award - winning author (her fourth book, The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs, came out last fall) and an outspoken activist, cofounding the Endometriosis Foundation of America and recently becoming an ambassador for the ACLU.

Others who were alive in the «50s and «60s will remember her as an outspoken social activist and intellectual who rubbed shoulders with James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and others changing the course of race relations in America.

Such is the stigma attached to it that outspoken activist and Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan used the threat of wearing the label's dresses as a slur against actresses who spoke out about their plans to wear all black to this year's awards shows as part of a silent protest.

On Tuesday, the network ordered «Citizen Rose,» a documentary series that will follow actress and filmmaker Rose McGowan, who in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal has also become one of Hollywood's most outspoken activists.

Maud divides her time between the laundry and her new activist friends, including outspoken pharmacist Edith Ellyn, portrayed with suitable vaunts and conviction from the ever irrefutable Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, The King's Speech), she also meets Inspector Arthur Steed (Brendan Gleeson), who heads an investigation to quell the suffragette movement utilizing modernistic surveillance cameras, and other underhand tactics.

Long considered one of Kenya's most prominent and outspoken activists, Maathai, who also spent a term in Parliament, has advocated for ordinary citizens to participate in environmental stewardship.

Mark Ruffalo sometimes plays an angry green guy in the movies, but in real life he's incredibly green: he's an outspoken environmental activist who's been outspoken on fracking in New York State and founded both The Solutions Project and Water Defense.

Instead, Brown wants us to become political activists, loud and outspoken, because activists — not passive consumers — are the ones who have always changed the course of history.

A shocking case of this comes from South - Africa, where a senior ranger for South Africa National Parks who was an outspoken activist against poaching, including during media interviews where he advised young people to stay away from poaching and criminal gangs, is charged with rhino poaching.