Sentences with phrase «halt action group»

In late 2016, she was one of the founders of the political collective HALT Action Group which began the anti-Trump «Dear Ivanka» campaign.

Last night, the Halt Action Group held a candlelight vigil outside of the Puck Building in Nolita.

Hours after Clinton conceded on the night of November 8, the gathering that would come to form the core of Halt Action Group — Gingeras and Bennett as well as artist Jonathan Horowitz, psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, and curator Ariella Wolens — met for a hush - hush meeting at an art space in lower Manhattan to discuss how the art world should fight back during the age of Trump.

What began as a frantic listserv transmitting furious, horrified correspondence in the immediate hours following the election of Donald Trump became an assembly, and then a movement: the Halt Action Group.

Halt Action Group created Dear Ivanka for exactly this kind of gesture — an artist reclaiming agency in a public arena, in a clear context of protest.

As Halt Action Group cofounder (and independent curator) Alison Gingeras explained to me, the powerlessness of an artist seeing his or her work in a carefully constructed Instagram picture posted by Ivanka — subsumed into her digital world — proved jarring for more than a few artists in her sphere.

The formula was simple: a snapshot of Trump's older daughter's well - heeled life — chronicled in fashion editorials and photo spreads in magazines and staged scenarios on social media — juxtaposed with a plea for help from a Halt Action Group member in the text.

It was late December, and I was sitting with Gingeras and fellow Halt Action Group member Alissa Bennett in the offices at New York's Team Gallery, where Bennett works as an artist liaison.

Gingeras said she considered Halt Action Group to be descended from the tradition of such movements and acts.

Halt Action Group followed in a continuum.

Later that evening, the Daily Mail online — often cited as the most - viewed English - language newspaper on Earth — picked up a story from Bloomberg that named Gingeras as a founder of Halt Action Group and quoted Da Corte demanding that Ivanka take his art down.

A year ago, Minter, an artist active within the Halt Action Group, partnered with pop star Miley Cyrus to make work in support of Planned Parenthood.

Not exact matches

23 years ago I supported the Milk Poverty Action Group, to put pressure on Nestle to halt it's dangerous sales practises.

But Morton Grove Park District Commissioner Dan Ashta's symbolic actions have spurred an ideological tug of war with a local veterans group, which recently halted cash donations to the Park District until its entire board stands for the pledge at park board meetings.

The Rights group said the action by the Imo state governor had been stridently opposed by the indigenes of Owerri who kicked against the plot to demolish the market and successfully secured a pending interlocutory Court's Injunction to halt the demolition but which has been brazenly disrespected by the All Progressives Congress governor.

«President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, combined with the repeal of domestic actions resulting in halting the decline in U.S. emissions, will likely make it more difficult and costly overall to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goal of holding warming well below 2 °C, and limiting it to 1.5 °C,» said Bill Hare, a climate scientist and CEO of Climate Analytics, a group that analyzes climate change scenarios.

I am active in groups that are focused on halting the expansion plans of the fossil fuel industries including the Keystone XL pipeline and yet the climate movement is still figuring out how a focus on local damages and pollution translate to action on the global long - term issue.

Indigenous groups, labor, youth, scientists, food justice and clean water activists, religious groups, and civil rights organizations joined environmental groups in calling on world leaders attending the UN Climate Summit in New York this Tuesday to start taking real action to halt climate disruption.

Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State, is set to be deposed today by lawyers for a group of 21 young plaintiffs, aged 9 to 20, who filed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty, and property by not taking action to halt global warming.