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disaffiliate [ˌdɪsəˈfɪlɪˌeɪt] vb
to sever an affiliation (with); dissociate disaffiliation n Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These resourceful actions stand in sharp contrast to the conventional notion of the homeless as helpless and disorganized and underscore the view that the homeless should not be pathologized as socially disorganized, disaffiliated, or disempowered (Anderson, et al. Last August, 2,000 janitors in San Francisco disaffiliated from the SEIU in favor of the independent United Service Workers for Democracy because they felt the union was not paying enough attention to their needs. He declared his 'disaffiliation from the American capitalist state' complete--and for the remaining years of his life, he would act in American letters and history not as a disaffiliated passive bystander recollecting in tranquility or in bitterness, but as an alienated activist-poet, a devoted social commentator and agitator," writes editor Sam Hamill in an introductory essay to The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth. |
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