Sentences with phrase «activist citizen groups»
A recent survey on corporate reputation conducted by the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) showed that nearly 50 % of the companies who responded had been targeted by activist citizen groups, and now engage with these non-governmental organizations in order to help improve public perceptions.
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Several Cary homeowners and members of the Citizens for a Better Community, an activist group, told the board that they still back the effort to acquire the property and preserve it as open space.
We have to act together in any and all capacities that we can, whether as grassroots groups, community organizations, charities, unions, activists, universities and, most of all, as citizens, without asking for permission or waiting for public funding.
Can an individual or legal (a citizens» group, activist, NGO among others) entity sue the government for not protecting me from these manifestly dangerous criminals?
Network judicial activists and legal reform groups around the country to promote citizen involvement, concerted action, and protection for judicial «whistleblowers».
Super PACs like those, as well as secretive nonprofit groups — both spurred by the 2010 Citizens United decision and other federal court rulings — allowed extremely wealthy activists to play in presidential and congressional politics like never before.
NY 19 Votes is uniting #Resistance, Indivisible, SwingLeft and long standing activist groups, Democratic and Working Families Party members and concerned citizens across the district.
The Senate candidate is the vice chair of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an organization formerly headed by left - wing activist David Brock and an approved funding group of the progressive Democracy Alliance.
Olivencia said that Citizens Action, a liberal activist group, had made the reservation at Pucho Olivencia without mentioning that Nixon would be part of the event.
In fact we recall how on August 20th 2015 a group of NDC activists engaged the media to communicate how they had been financially resourced by the leadership of the NDC, led by its General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia to ILLEGALLY recruit over 10,000 Togolese CITIZEN»S to register on the Ghana electoral roll in 2012.
Officially called the «Task Force on Evaluating Economic Development Tax Expenditures,» the group brings together liberal activists such as Javier Valdes of Make the Road with budget wonks, such as Michael Dardia of the Citizens Budget Commission and James Parrott of the Fiscal Policy Institute.
Matthew Heineman's documentary follows young activists and citizen journalists from the city who formed the «Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently» group (RBSS).
Bea Eusebio, who graduated from high school just a week prior, brought a student activist perspective to the panel representing the Mikva Challenge, a Chicago - based group that develops youth to «be informed, empowered, and active citizens and community leaders.»
Other groups across Canada agree and class action suits have been launched by senior citizen and anti-poverty activists, as well as other groups in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba, including a recent one by Derek Nepinak, a former grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.
> > > Should the citizens of Wood County and the State be concerned that animal > activists groups that have no legal authority were rallied from around the > country to shut down a WV small business that was in complete compliance with > state laws and agencies for over 45 years?
The Center's heroes come from all walks of life — volunteers, educators, grassroots activists, concerned citizens, and more — with diverse backgrounds and age groups.
In citizen -, citizen - activist - media -, governmental -, governmental - front - group - or even in the shall we say, official - science.
On top of this, Larry and I invited local St. Louis environmental activists to speak to our group such as Climate Reality Project Leader Brian Bozak, Ed Smith Energy Director for Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Jill Miller an organizer with Renew Missouri, Arielle Klagsbrun an organizer with MORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment), Sara Edgar an organizer with Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, and Carol Braford the St. Louis group leader with Citizens Climate Lobby.
Despite its weaknesses, the conference brought together a fantastic group of public - minded citizens and activists to thoughtfully discuss where to take the movement from here.
The graffiti was timed well, mysteriously appearing the morning that activist groups, county officials, Army Corps of Engineers and local citizens met to discuss the dam's fate.
On its blog, the group, which calls itself Tar Sands Blockade, takes pains to point out that the protest was staged not by professional activists, but by ordinary citizens.
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About Blog - The Sri Lanka Guardian is a non-profit web portal founded in August 2007 by a group of concerned Sri Lankan citizens including journalists, activists, academics and retired civil servants.