A number of the more left-leaning activists from the first strike, such as Bob Pagels and Glen Barr, made clear their opposition to this second stoppage.

In 2002, Hayes penned an opinion article describing former PBS host Bill Moyers as a left-leaning activist who exhibited on-air bias.

At the time, using the Alien Tort statute to pursue human rights violators was a fringe idea, the project of a small group of left-leaning legal activists.

He was highly critical of the oppressive style of the government and its extrajudicial killings of the left-leaning activists.

Rich has been described as being attacked by left-leaning activists; one reporter wrote "'Howie Rich from New York City' has become the Left's latest whipping boy."

It is much the same in Mexico, where some left-leaning activists are backing the conservative presidential candidate as the best way to crack the dominance of a ruling party that has been in power for seven decades.

You yourself, as a left-leaning activist, have been mentioned as a possible political candidate for decades.

Of the 2006 killings, the dead were "mostly left-leaning activists, murdered without trial or punishment for the perpetrators."

Dozens of conservative Democrats say they are concerned that Richard Gephardt may deliver the party to the labor and left-leaning activists who got out the vote and helped it pick up seats last week.

The Winnipeg Free Press once called him "the city's best-known left-leaning activist".