THE murder of an Indian activist who
crusaded against black magic and religious charlatans has prompted protests in the city of Pune.
HUGO CHAVEZ, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela,
crusaded against US influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died on Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.
That's what happened in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, on November 8 when voters replaced city councilman Jimmie Hicks Jr., a fundamentalist minister who
crusaded against gay rights for years, with Mark Tumeo, 46, a gay activist who fought against Hicks.
Although wrong about the reasons these physicians
crusaded against abortion, Mohr and several other historians correctly recognized one key result of the Physicians' Crusade.
A week later, Winerip
crusaded against NCLB overcrowding yet again, announcing in his first paragraph that NCLB "may go down in history as the most unpopular piece of education legislation ever created." Describing crowded conditions at Public School 19 in the Bronx, the column noted that "Ms.
They
crusaded against Haynsworth as if he were evil incarnate, and defeated his nomination by a vote of 55-45.
Ironically, the Christian Coalition, the Religious Right organization Robertson founded, has always
crusaded against legalized gambling.
The Right in this country has
crusaded against sexual, cultural, and political freedom for several decades, mostly because the new civil rights and social change movements threatened the old racial, gender, and class power hierarchies.
Robertson has repeatedly
crusaded against federal arts funding.