It can, of course, be redeployed for activist causes – and it often is – but there's no reason to accept the status quo as either ideal or inevitable.
The goal of the campaign is to thrust the cause of human rights in Burma — now known as Myanmar — into the orbit of A-list activist causes, along with Tibet and Darfur, and to encourage international pressure on a government that activists say is one of the world's most oppressive.
The boat, with an unmistakable neon yellow hull that calls to mind dangerous levels of radiation, was rammed on its launch by Greenpeace activists, causing substantial damage.
Activists have been demanding a comprehensive inquiry to establish whether key evidence gathered by undercover officers has been concealed from other trials of activists, causing other miscarriage of justices.
The new act has quite directly dealt one huge blow to activists' cause.
The shouting, which seemed so repellent and so likely to harm the activists' cause turned out to be an effective tactic.
The year marked the 40th anniversary of the riots, giving journalists and activists cause to reflect on progress made since 1969.
According to the letter sent to farmers in Gloucestershire, one of the two cull areas, the activists have caused the cull to fall behind schedule.
Ferries have been increasingly relied upon in the United Kingdom; however, since previous campaigns by animal rights activists have caused airlines and airports to enact restrictions on the trade.
Khan refused, and grew annoyed at her devotion to activist causes.
