But he argued that local parties should learn the lessons of seats such as Birmingham Edgbaston and Barking at the last election, where the MPs did well against the national trend by marshalling the support and interest of people who were not natural activists.
Naomi Wolf wrote the bestselling book The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot for Gandin Le, whom she calls "a born activist, a natural grassroots leader and teacher".
Support for her plight is growing, with backers including Sheila Kitzinger, the British natural childbirth activist and author, Professor Wendy Savage, Britain's first female obstetric consultant, and the Labour MP Caroline Flint.
The fact that natural gas drilling activists were planning on attending zoning meetings in Butler County, Pennsylvania, may be considered "hot intelligence" in the boardrooms of the drilling companies that the activists were opposing — but there is no justification for police officials to be tracking such things.
In marketing parlance, Small Planet (like the rest of the organic industry) had traditionally directed its products toward someone called "the true natural" -- a committed, activist consumer.
Mr. Santorum's conservatism and working-class roots are a natural fit for Tea Party activists, but Mr. Romney is not ceding this ground.
It's natural that as shareholder activists have become more powerful, they've also become more ambitious in their plans — witness Loeb's recent attempt to get Sony to sell off its entire entertainment division.
TEK must play the role of inviting cross-cultural and cross-situational learning for indigenous and non-indigenous policy makers, natural resource managers, scientists, activists, elders, and youth.
Former colleagues recall an enormously clever, not terribly political young woman; when she left for the Bank of England - not the natural habitat of a classic activist - few predicted a political future.
