He is widely credited with having reinvented that office, turning it from a backwater into an activist operation.
As Lewandowsky and John Cook later wrote, "These range from "global climate activist operation" to "ringleader for conspiratorial activities by the green climate bloggers," to Stephan Lewandowsky receiving millions of dollars to run The Conversation".
The work included the creation of a "Cuban Twitter" social network and the dispatch of inexperienced Latin American youth to recruit activists, operations that were the focus of previous revelations.
The exceptions are, typically, the endorsements from those politicians who still do have a machine — or at least a robust activist and fundraising operation — that can be employed on the endorsee's behalf.
For many animal activists, mass breeding operations are barbaric and inhumane -- concentration camps for sows.
Bernie asked me to do it, to organize it," Schumer said, adding that he agrees with Sanders' idea that the DNC needs to become more of an activist and organizing operation.
While in the 1970s and 1980s the gay rights movement operated much more freely (the country even had known gay clubs and visible LGBTQ space), today activists conduct clandestine operations and hold discreet gatherings as mounting homophobic sentiments pervade public discourse.
The same has been true in other parts of the country, said Baraa Shiban, a Yemeni activist who tracks counterterrorism operations in Yemen and works for UK human rights organization Reprieve.
At the same time, it rejected the activists' demand that security operations against protesters be stopped.
The government has introduced tough anti-protest laws, aimed squarely at activists who disrupt timber operations.
