Sentences with phrase «against community centers»

Governor Cuomo signed into law a measure that would create new penalties for people who make bomb threats against community centers.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law new penalties for those who make bomb threats against community centers.

On Monday, he signed legislation that bolster penalties for those who make bomb threats against community centers.

Cuomo has signed a bill that changes criminal statute to ensure suspects accused of making bomb threats against a community center can, at minimum, face a sentence of up to a year in jail.

The new law changes criminal statute to ensure suspects convicted of making bomb threats against a community center can, at minimum, face a sentence of up to a year in jail.

Not exact matches

In many places, such as in California and Colorado, businesses and communities vie against each other to win potentially lucrative licenses from the state for creating and operating marijuana cultivation centers and retail outlets.

Molly Burke, Founder, Bicycles Against Poverty Bicycles Against Poverty is a nonprofit that caters to remote Ugandan communities that don't have the benefit of nearby health centers and markets.

Take, for instance, Florida's gun laws: A new report from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun control nonprofit formerly known as the Legal Community Against Violence, issued a report this month about the astronomical economic cost of Florida's awful gun violence laws.

The survey came against the background of a number of controversies touching the American Muslim community, ranging from King's hearings to the debate over plans to build an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.

If Phelps and his co-defendants are liable for the intentional infliction of emotional distress in this case, what is to prevent another judge and jury from ordering monetary damages in a case against the owners of the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero for inflicting emotional distress on the families of 9/11 victims?

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

Gale Cincotta, who grew up in Chicago's Austin community and fought with an IAF organization against block - busting and panic - peddling, now runs the National Information and Training Center which carries the action to national policies affecting finance, investment and housing.

Oh yes, I completely agree, if only Muslim leaders protested against the building of an Islamic Community Center 2 blocks from Ground Zero (6 blocks from where the Towers actually stood), then the entire divide between Christianity and Islam would just fade away and we could all dance around a camp fire singing the coca - cola song!

The online video is an effort to fight back against «the rising tide of fear - mongering» resulting from plans to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan in New York, the group behind it said.

With chants and banners, protesters against the construction of an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero faced off on Sunday with protesters in favor of the facility.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

You would think that most Jewish leaders in America would have a special sensitivity to the vitriol pouring out against Muslims concerning the proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero.

Mertesacker's World Cup exertions meant that Chambers» versatility saw him go straight alongside Laurent Koscielny at Right - Center - Back and, from his very first game for Arsenal against Manchester City in the FA Community Shield, has bedded in well.

And residents of Horatio Gardens cast 153 of those negative votes, voting more than 2 - 1 against the increase, which was to have paid for a community center and other facilities.

Plainfield Park District voters Tuesday told officials they support term limits, are against dog park permit fees and want them to look into a community center.

The Mokena Community Park District's plan to build a recreation center on the Yunker Farm site has been thrown in doubt by the Will County Zoning and Planning Commission's vote against the needed permit.

«I think the people of Naperville spoke,» said James Jandora, who was a member of the now - defunct CAN - IT, or Citizens Against Naperville Increasing Taxes, which opposed the community center plan.

Mass Audubon has designated Wellfleet Bay as a Climate Action Center to lead our community in the fight against climate change.

But Wilson said that board members were told after the unsuccessful November referendum proposal for construction of a community center that many people voted against the measure because they did not agree that a fitness center should be included.

Cuomo also spoke out against recent acts of anti-Semitism at the Jewish Community Center in Albany.

Citing the close race against Avella, the former head of public interest group Center for Community Interest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the district.

«The new bomb threat against the Brighton Jewish Community Center — the second threat in less than a week — is a despicable and cowardly act that will not be tolerated in New York,» Cuomo said.

«We don't agree with him on numerous issues — especially his unseemly fulminating against an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero.

Responding to the 100 bomb threats made against Jewish community centers across the country, officials gathered for an emergency meeting, held Thursday, March 3, at the Riverdale YM - YWHA on Arlington Avenue.

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District announced the arrest of a St. Louis man for making bomb threats against Jewish community centers.

One Riverdale resident blames President Donald Trump and his administration for the recent increase in hate crimes and bomb threats against Jewish community centers.

Also at 10 a.m., local elected officials in Albany join AARP New York and AG Eric Schneiderman's Office to kick off «Shred Fest 2016» — a statewide series of events that will help New Yorkers protect themselves against identity theft by providing them secure destruction of personal financial records and other sensitive documents, Sidney Albert Albany Jewish Community Center, 340 Whitehall Rd., Albany.

At 12:30 p.m., Rep. Nita Lowey joins leaders of Jewish community centers for a roundtable discussion on the anti-Semitic bomb threats against JCCs in Westchester, JCC on the Hudson, JCC Library, 271 S. Broadway, Tarrytown.

Federal investigators believe the latest wave of bomb threats against Jewish centers and schools around the country was a coordinated attack perpetrated using «spoofing» technology, according to a liaison to the Jewish community who spoke with FBI investigators.

Ivanka Trump, the president's oldest daughter and a convert to Judaism, issued a statement over Twitter calling for «religious tolerance» after a new wave of threats against Jewish community centers.

Cuomo issued a statement about the second threat made against the Brighton Jewish Community Center in less than a week, calling it a «despicable and cowardly act that will not be tolerated in New York.»

Union Members, Community Activists to Rally Against Loss of Hudson River Psychiatric Center Services Wednesday June 08, 2011 at 01:26 pm

Miller urged the hundreds of parents and educators at the emotional meeting at the Goddard Riverside Community Center on the Upper West Side to speak out against the mayor's threats in every possible venue.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

Craig Gurian, a lawyer with the Anti-Discrimination Center, launched a lawsuit against the City in 2015, arguing the practice of keeping affordable units in housing lotteries for people from the local community worsens racial segregation, the New York Daily News reported.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Communitcommunity — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Communitcommunity, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT CommunityCommunity Center.

On the evening of November 16, more than 700 people packed the Sunnyside Community Services Center to speak out against Trump's and Vice President - elect Mike Pence's structural and systematic racism toward the Muslim and other immigrant communities, as well as their misogyny and homophobia.

Prior to joining the Center in 2007 she worked as an amphibian field biologist, conservation corps crew leader, and community organizer against mountaintop - removal coal mining.

In many studies of human subjects the question of interest centers on whether a biological factor (disease state, treatment, host genotype etc.) results in a measurable difference on a gut bacterial community against the background of the naturally occurring differences among humans.

Director Matthew Heineman's film centers on Dr. José Mireles, who decided to fight back against the cartels oppressing his community by creating the vigilante group, Autodefensas.

A plan to transfer Head Start programs run by the Chicago public schools to community - based centers has put the popular preschool program for disadvantaged children at the center of an emotional dispute pitting agency against agency and parent against parent.

Community health centers that serve millions of poor children are facing shortages of vaccines against common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella, a new report by the Children's Defense Fund concludes.

They seemed to offer a hopeful glimmer of how an urban district could win out against resistance from teachers unions and community pressures by sticking with student - centered policies.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center Federal agency that helps communities prevent violence committed by and against young people.