Sentences with phrase «many of the young activists»

He quit the Government in November after allegations emerged that he failed to take sufficient action to stop the bullying of young activists.

Even as the voices of young activists from Stoneman Douglas High, where 17 people were shot not two months ago, have sparked unprecedented national conversation, we can still only guess at their inner lives — or those of surviving parents — when the cameras are off.

That explanation didn't go very far with Sanders backers such as Nowak, who argue that Perez's election would dampen the enthusiasm of the young activists who Sanders brought into the party.

Clarke worked as director of the RoadTrip2015 and RoadTrip2020 campaigns, which involved bussing hundreds of young activists to Tory target seats across the country.

And he claimed «Trotsky entryists» were «twisting arms» of young activists and said contact with his boss is often limited to «the odd text, usually about family stuff».

Grant Shapps and Lord Feldman should resign over revelations the Conservative party failed to act on complaints about an election aide at the heart of a bullying scandal, says the father of a young activist believed to have killed himself.

The Conservative Party has agreed to a fully independent inquiry into allegations surrounding the death of young activist Elliott Johnson.

The video, released online, ends with a collection of young activists asking people to «honk if you think it's Cuomo's fault.»

Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease.

Riffing on Italian gut - munchers like Cannibal Holocaust, the Hostel director places a group of young activists in the clutches of a flesh - eating Amazonian tribe.

Adam reported how a brave group of young activists unfurled protest banners at Yulin's festival.

In one of the sprawling buildings that are both exhibition space and a bus depot linking hotels and the negotiations, I found McKibben huddled with some of his indefatigable team of young activists at the booth of 350.org.

Billy Parish is a longtime contact from the network of young activists working to build an energy menu for America that works for the long haul.

What might be dubbed «virtuous malfeasance» — hostile actions motivated by the public good aimed at damaging a company's interests — may be a new form of civil disobedience practiced by a market - savvy generation of young activists.

So begins the film How To Change The World, which tells the story of the young activists who set sail from Vancouver, Canada in 1971 in an old fishing boat to stop the atomic bomb tests, and who would quickly evolve into a passionate and courageous group devoted to saving the whales.

One final thought, most of these young activists can't vote or run for office now, but I'll bet hard cash that changes.

Planned Parenthood Generation Action is a network of young activists across the country and across Massachusetts who organize events on their campuses and in their communities to mobilize advocates for reproductive freedom, raise public awareness about reproductive health and rights, and create lasting change in those communities.

Not exact matches

In addition to being an activist, 20 - year - old Yousafzai is a published author, a United Nations (UN) Messenger of Peace and in 2014 she became the youngest Nobel Laureate ever after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

His trip to Israel — which included meetings with top Middle Eastern political leaders and a tour of Christian holy sites with 40 evangelical activists — has fueled growing speculation that the younger Paul is seriously considering a presidential bid of his own in 2016.

«I think it's a concerted effort that there is too much money to be made here and (they're) not going to be deterred by the structural or cultural defences (anymore),» said Chris Young, who works with companies on the receiving end of activist campaigns at Credit Suisse in New York.

«I don't know if anyone has any more experience than he does prosecuting activist campaigns,» says Chris Young, head of contested situations at Credit Suisse, who has known Cohn since the latter started at Elliott.

Pollock belongs to the younger generation of Elliott principals that has doubled down on activist campaigns.

child porn, to use a popular boogeyman of censors and civil liberties activists complaining about censors alike), and then expand the apparatus over time until eventually it gets into the hands of some enterprising young hotshots that promptly decide they can make a few billion dollars through the cryptoeconomic equivalent of LIBOR manipulation.

Calgary - Hawkwood NDP MLA Michael Connolly, the bratty young LGBT activist who was particularly vociferous in his criticism of the absent Jason Kenney during last fallâ $ ™ s debate on the govtâ $ ™ s GSA bi...

Calgary - Hawkwood NDP MLA Michael Connolly, the bratty young LGBT activist who was particularly vociferous in his criticism of the absent Jason Kenney during last fall's debate on the govt's GSA bi...

«It's time for you to stop being politely angry,» Gbowee told CBS news anchor Norah O'Donnell in a sweeping conversation that moved from her native Liberia to the women's marches in the United States last year to the young activists who have emerged in the aftermath of the shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

No More Page 3 was launched in 2012 by activist Lucy - Anne Holmes, who was «sad that the most prominent photograph of a woman in the widest circulation British newspaper is of a young woman in just her pants».

Komsomol (Young Communist League) activists would take the names of participants in Easter processions and report the participants to their bosses.

The day before the October 23, 1967, March on the Pentagon, Mr. Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and eight other activists met with an official in the Justice Department and turned in the draft cards of young war resisters

The day before the October 23, 1967, March on the Pentagon, Mr. Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and eight other activists met with an official in the Justice Department and turned in the draft cards of young war resisters — an action that was to result in the indictment of five of the group on conspiracy charges.

The culmination of a long process of thinking and rethinking can be seen in the May / June issue of The Other Side, a young - evangelical activist magazine.

This weekend, Fuse will air the new documentary from filmmaker Dan Parris about the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown, the Ferguson protests and how young activists are working for change.

The Manifesto was an explosive declaration of independence by a new generation of young black activists who had grown impatient with the slow - moving, nonviolent tactics that had prevailed in the Civil Rights Movement.

The media attention has resulted in a wave of young, unchurched Australians turning up on Sundays, intrigued by the activities of McKenna and his fellow activists, and the Jesus they say they represent.

I have mentioned the variety of membership in the church — activists and contemplatives, rich and poor, old and young, black and white and yellow, morally concerned and aesthetically sensitive — all are included.

Beginning in 1976, Weyrich, Phillips and Morton Blackwell, who organizes young men and teaches them how to be political activists — Ralph Reed is one of his graduates — launched a concentrated effort to involve conservative churches in their cause.

This being the case, he continues, «young Catholic women have quite sensibly decided that, if they wish to do good works or be political activists while dressing like middle - class professionals and living in apartments, there is little reason to bind themselves, even in an attenuated way, to the classic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience - each of which has undergone a radical reinterpretation in the LCWR congregations.

«It's really encouraging to see such a drop in consumption of bottled water among young people, because as they grow up, the overall market is definitely going to decline further,» says Jon Dee, the managing director of activist group Do Something!

An RSPCA spokesman confirmed that Wally's Piggery in Murrumbateman and the connected business of Tennessee Piggery near Young had closed earlier this year, after activists released confronting footage of alleged animal cruelty at Wally's.

To monitor the Sialkot plant, which opened in January, Reebok hired local human - rights activists to make surprise inspections and enlisted the services of the Ernst and Young branch in nearby Lahore to ensure that the factory's output corresponds to its input in materials.

Haley Morris, inspired by a book about a young activist, had gathered petition signatures asking for the return of flavored milk.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, who remains controversial even after death for pushing a vegetarian diet for young children in the latest edition of his baby book, was an anti-war activist, civil rights leader, health care reformer and one of the great liberals of the 20th Century.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

I have felt honoured to be so welcomed by the Fabians and by yourself in the time since I left, and I really am interested in having this debate, but whilst interning I really was taken aback by the culture of hierarchy and deference not just in the Fabians but across liberal think - tanks, the structures of gender and power and who was and wasn't allowed to contribute to the debate, compared to my subsequent experiences in the activist movement, where even very young, inexperienced people are treated as equals.

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This is changing, however, under the influence of Judicial Training Academies, which are «re-educating» the younger cohort of judges to imitate the «activist» style of the European supranational courts.

Activist Akeem Browder, whose younger brother Kalief committed suicide at age 22 in 2015 after being locked for years on Rikers Island for a crime he didn't commit, it running for mayor of NYC on the Green Party line.

«I had children in the schools, so I really knew my community and when I stepped up to say I want to fight for Hamburg, they knew I meant it,» Hochul said of her first political campaign for Hamburg Town Board as a young lawyer and activist.

Previously, MPs had monopolised that right but after a left - wing activist campaign (including a young Jon Lansman, founder of Momentum), a new electoral college was formed.

But on this issue, and others, there was a real divide in the attitudes taken by younger and older members of Momentum, with the younger activists being much more open - minded and intelligent in their approach.