Community Activists

Community activists:  Members who are very engaged or actively a part of a group or community.  In Heaney and Rojas, the locals are the community activists.  They are trying to point out that the Fort Bragg protest might be fueled by a hidden agenda.  

Example: Students in Douglas County protest the teacher turn-over rate.  Students are angry that teachers are being fired and want change. (Denver Post)

Andy Cross  

Evidence:  "While local community activists called attention to the potential resonance of a larger event in Fayetteville, it was principally national antiwar movement leaders in UFPJ who seized the
opportunity to use a rally near Fort Bragg as part of a larger framing strategy. For them, staging a widely visible rally in Fayetteville was one tactic to attract the attention of the media and
to transform the way other attentive audiences viewed the antiwar movement."  (Heaney and Rojas pg. 249)


Work Cited
Heaney and Rojas. "Harnessing the Symbolism of Fayetteville".  Springer Science+Business Media. 2006. Web. 31 March 2016.