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Hyperactivism: The Phenomenon Of Doing Without Achieving, Henry Spira
Hyperactivism: The Phenomenon Of Doing Without Achieving, Henry Spira
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Take An Activist To Breakfast?, Henry Spira
Take An Activist To Breakfast?, Henry Spira
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Activity Vs. Productivity: Strategies Of Social Protest, Henry Spira
Activity Vs. Productivity: Strategies Of Social Protest, Henry Spira
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The Meek Don’T Make It, Henry Spira
The Meek Don’T Make It, Henry Spira
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Born 51 years ago in Antwerp, Belgium, Henry Spira ran away from home at 17 to join the Merchant Marine and took his first politics lesson in the National Maritime Union. After the Korean War he worked on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey. "One thing you learned," Spira said, "is that the meek don't make it." In the late 1950s he first saw animal experiments in a laboratory while working his way through Brooklyn College. He joined the civil rights campaigns in the South and marched against the war in Vietnam, "from beginning to end." Henry Spira …