Sentences with phrase «rally organizers said»
Rally organizers said that more than 15,000 signatures have been collected from hospital employees, community members and health advocates across the state in support of this bill.
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Organizers said they expected more than 700,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally at the foot of Capitol Hill, a gathering led by survivors of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.
Organizers at national gun control groups, who provided logistical support and public relations advice as the students planned the Washington rally, said they believed that the students would not become disillusioned by the lack of immediate action in Congress.
Saturday's rallies, organizers said, were attempting to demonstrate a show of force in that debate: Many citizens do not automatically want their nation's economy to expand (it's an almost universally - accepted idea in modern economics that expanded trade will provide net economic expansion to both countries) but instead they care how those benefits are distributed.
Johnson said rally organizers have notified the Park Service of other possible protest groups, but none of those have applied for a permit.
«We have been besieged by financial debt, terrorism and a multitude of natural disasters,» Perry said in the run - up to the rally, which organizers said drew 30,000 people.
«The organizer of the rally, True Blue NY, was literally founded to end the IDC so it's pretty clear that calls for resignation have more to do with politics than anything else,» she said.
It was for families like theirs that organizers said they held the City Hall rally.
MIDTOWN — Workers planned to rally at several major fast - food chains throughout the city Monday to demand higher wages and the right to unionize, organizers said.
«The facts are on our side,» the mayor said to a crowd estimated by organizers at 1,500 (which would make it somewhat smaller than the pro-charter rally).
Organizers said turnout for the rally was dampened by rain and cold weather, but more protests ar... Read
Potter said organizers for the «America First» rally were denied a permit at the federal building earlier this summer.
«The community wasn't at the table when Nassau OTB made the proposal,» said Tammie Williams, 34, an organizer of the rally who lives three blocks from Belmont Park, in Elmont.
Organizers say the rallies are the first step toward getting more people to the polls for the midterm elections.
Lisa Donovan, an organizer of the rally, said organizers were telling gun owners that «once they register, that gun is no longer theirs.»
Another big rally and picket line will kick off Thursday at JFK at 1:30 p.m. by Terminal 5, organizers said.
Randy Potter, of the Onondaga County Republican Party Committee, said organizers were denied a permit to hold the September rally at the federal building.
Rally organizer Vanessa E. Beary, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said she heard about the missing students after submitting her dissertation — about using entrepreneurship to strengthen education in developing countries — early last week.
In what one organizer described as a»60s - style protest rally with guitar music and singing, a group of striking California child - care providers demonstrated on the grounds of the state Capitol in Sacramento last week, saying low wages are keeping good teachers from staying in the field.
Organizers say they are expecting possibly one million people to turn out Saturday for hundreds of rallies worldwide and in the U.S. capital in the wake of the Florida school massacre.
The organizers rallied outside Pittsburgh Public School Headquarters in support of community schools as an alternative to the status quo of «poor education policies that destabilize our communities,» said parent Pamela Harbin.
Organizers say they hope the rallies will send a message to Tim Hortons and its parent company — Restaurant Brands International.
said Dallas Goldtooth, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network and one of the emcees of the rally.»
«I just had to come by again,» said Alyssa Fletcher, a 17 - year - old junior at Stoneman Douglas, and one organizer of Saturday's March for Our Lives rally in Parkland.
Ryan Deitsch, one of the student organizers of «March for Our Lives,» said Hunter Pollack was set to speak at the Washington rally as late as Saturday morning, even appearing on a printed schedule, but «he never showed up.»
Organizers say many of the rallies attracted thousands in support of legislation that would raise the age at which buyers can purchase some rifles and would improve and expand background checks.