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-4 posts tagged "social activism"
Julianna Conley | Thursday, March 21, 2019
Over spring break, a neighbor asked me what section of the newspaper I write for. When I answered that I was a Viewpoint columnist, she smiled but looked wary. “Ah,” she said. “You’re part of the complainers. You guys are always angry with the world.” Throughout the mere four months I’ve been writing, this has
Serena Zacharias | Thursday, March 7, 2019
As Ben Phillips, co-founder of the Fight Inequality Alliance and a Hewlett Fellow of Public Policy at the Kellogg Institute, listened to Nelson Mandela speak at a rally in South Africa just four years after apartheid ended, Phillips said he realized two things. “The first was that I was in the presence of a hero,
Gary Caruso | Friday, April 6, 2018
In an era of instant connectivity, we seem not to seek answers. In an age of plenty, we cherish greed. In a time when our nation is rapidly changing most of its demographics, we seek a return to an earlier time remembered as great. Without a time machine that could return us to a life
Nicholas Marr | Friday, February 9, 2018
Does Dolores Huerta fight for the voiceless? Next week, Notre Dame will host Huerta on campus. A social activist dedicated to labor rights, Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) with Cesar Chavez in 1962. She served as an honorary co-chair for the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. In the eyes of the