Sentences with phrase «activist organizations»

No significant new activist organization with the organizational capacity to take effective action toward promoting real change according to a clear agenda.

These student - led activist organizations use sophisticated analysis, appropriate action, and creative partnerships to challenge the education systems to become responsive to student voice.

But the story within the story is of great interest to anyone who wants to understand how money and influence flow through consulting firms to politicians and supposedly grassroots activist organizations.

The vote came after public input from community members and representatives of various activist organizations, most of whom opposed the building of the plant.

By joining a local activist organization, you can increase the strength of your voice 100 times, and you will get to have some input in forming policy for the group.

The Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, League of Conservation Voters, Center for Biological Diversity, National Wildlife Federation, World Wildlife Fund, and other environmental activist organizations serve as the face of the movement and provide cover for where the secretive foundations direct their resources.»

These programs begin with the participation of teenagers taught by volunteers who are provided with teaching curriculum which are mostly designed by activist organizations like the Mothers against Drunk Driving.

CAIR, among the largest Muslim activist organizations in the U.S., believes the violent Afghan reaction to the burning of the Quran is symbolic of greater frustration at the continued presence of foreign troops.

From 2008 through 2012 he co-directed Yoga Festival Toronto and Yoga Community Toronto, non-profit activist organizations dedicated to promoting open dialogue and accessibility.

Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is a New York - based activist organization working to establish sustainable economic relationships between artists and the institutions that contract our work, and to introduce mechanisms for self - regulation into the art field that collectively bring about a more equitable distribution of its economy.

On June 2, a coalition of activist organizations led by Erie Rising and joined by the likes of the Sierra Club, the Mark Ruffalo - lead Water Defense, the Angela Monti Fox - lead Mothers Project (mother of «Gasland» Producer and Director, Josh Fox), Food and Water Watch (FWW), among others, will take to Erie, CO to say «leave and leave now» to EnCana Corporation.

Lise Soskolne is an artist and core organizer of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), a New York - based activist organization whose mission is to establish sustainable economic relationships between artists and the institutions that contract their labor, and to introduce mechanisms for self - regulation into the art field that collectively bring about a more equitable distribution of its economy.

Surf activist organizations like Surfrider encourage the public to take care of their beaches.

She has also been involved in many activist organizations such as the Guerilla Girls, Art Workers» Coalition, and Fight Censorship Group.

She was an early member of many art and activist organizations including Guerrilla Girls, Art Workers» Coalition, and Fight Censorship.

The signing was hailed by a variety of groups ranging from the progressive activist organization VOCAL - NY to the more mainstream AARP.

Environmental groups, the Green Party, the Mayor of Vancouver, First Nations communities, and activist organizations such as Leadnow are also unanimous in their condemnation of Trans Mountain.

They are also pushing back on a group of Democratic attorneys general and powerful green activist organizations who have charged ExxonMobil with holding back decades of internal top secret knowledge that climate actually changes.

American Atheist is a political activist organization much like the ACLU, women's rights groups, gay rights, etc..

EPA has given millions of dollars (probably around $ 100 million) to organizations like NRDC, WWF, Environmental Fund, UCS and other activist organizations, how much has EPA given to any skeptic organization?

On May 13th various garment industry activist organizations announced that a deal had been reached between several, mostly European brands and a number of Bangladeshi and international unions including IndustriALL.

Anonymous, an amorphous activist organization rabidly opposed to Internet surveillance, accused the company of trying to intimidate Canadians.

Political Advocacy Tracker is a roundup of what Christian activist organizations have been talking about the past week.

Nevertheless, today's event as the backing of labor groups and activist organizations aligned with the WFP.

«We elected a president who's a community organizer and I want a DNC that's a much more activist organization filled with community organizers who can not only get traditional voters but go out and get people who are now at Standing Rock, who are mobilizing to protect choice or equity,» Rybak said.

Cynthia Nixon has picked up one of her most high - profile political endorsements yet in her primary challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo — the liberal activist organization New York Communities for Change.

The event, talked up for weeks among local fracking foes, had its theatrical moments — two anti-fracking signs were displayed in the bleachers, one a huge banner with the website addresses of two activist organizations held by a man wearing a yellow haz - mat suit.

The Christian Coalition of America is a religious right activist organization considered allied with the party.

He followed a group of parents from the Coalition for SafeMinds, an autism activist organization.

Here, leading environmental activists and activist organizations share what they see as the most effective ways to take action:

So yesterday was Yogis for Haiti day, a call to action initiated by the excellent yoga activist organization, Off the Mat and Into the World.

Yoga service and activist organization Off the Mat, Into the World (OTM) has received their share of criticism over the past couple of years, particularly for falling short on issues related to power and privilege.

by Walter Chaw I'm offended by the marketing for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (hereafter Narnia 1)-- not the trailers (which are pedestrian) or the print ads, per se, but the campaign to pre-screen reels to churches and church groups, including Colorado's wildly divisive rightwing activist organization Focus on the Family.

The International is the first biennial - style exhibition to be certified by W.A.G.E., an artist activist organization Pittsburgh, PA. — Carnegie Museum of Art is pleased to announce that the Carnegie Int» l, 57th ed., 2018, has been certified by W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) as meeting its standards for paying artist fees.

The response of the patrons who fought back against a raid on the bar, and the ensuing riot, have become recognized as the symbolic birth of the gay liberation movement, a movement leading to the establishment of a gay press, a range of gay activist organizations, a new consciousness among gays and lesbians, and a greater public awareness of these issues.

Instead we get an environment where the Warner - Lieberman coal industry bonanza is considered progress, and where I see on the website of one major activist organization that they support Mike Crapo's senate equivalent of the Pombo bill gutting the ESA.

Just over two years ago I asked TreeHugger prez Ken and editor Meg if I could take on a time - consuming volunteer gig as President of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, a 76 year old heritage activist organization.

In 1999, environmental activist organizations sued the EPA to force the agency to regulate CO2 emissions from motor vehicles.

The petitioners consist of environmental activist organizations ranging the alphabet from Action Against Climate Change Liberia to the Zona Especial Indigena de Nicaragua.

For one thing, the U.S. foundations include multi-billion dollar activist organizations, built of fortunes from the Fords and Rockefellers, the Hewletts and Packards, that dwarf anything that exists in Canada.

«That's quite a little activist organization they have running out of the University of [W] estern Australia.

The CODEPINK left - wing activist organization is planning «audacious and creative, colorful protests» targeting the inauguration of President - elect Donald Trump on Friday, Ariel Gold, CODEPINK's campaign director, told Breitbart News in an interview.

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