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In the 13 years since he left office, President Clinton has been a relentless and forceful advocate for a number of causes: the fight against HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and the need to stem greenhouse gas emissions.

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Rather than a fair criticism of what you perceive to be the overzealousness of some of the people involved in advocating for the cause of AIDS, it is a bitter and unwarranted attack against what you refer to as the «AIDS Lobby.»

As CT noted in a 2006 interview, Brownback developed a reputation for defending the poor and advocating for foreign aid to address humanitarian crises — including the Darfur genocide in Sudan, the AIDS outbreak in Africa, and human rights violations in North Korea.

The US church has a unique opportunity to offer a different way forward, to advocate for compassionate and wise aid for refugees in a way that blesses both them and their new community.

Those who advocate not using condoms despite an explosion in AIDS think they are serving the greater good.

Earvin Johnson has tirelessly invested in African - American communities and advocated for those affected by HIV / AIDS — and, despite his own diagnosis, the smile has never left his face

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HIV / AIDS can be, but is not always, transmitted through breastmilk (the rate of transmission is about 15 %), and as such, many people have advocated that any mothers in areas of high prevalence should resort to artificial feeding.

Advocates also brought attention to the fact that any cuts to HFNY funding would disqualify New York from applying for millions in federal aid for home visiting because the state is required to show a Maintenance of Effort in order to receive federal funding.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

Iannuzzi was on CapTon earlier this week to discuss the possibility of a new legal challenge of what education advocates say is a long - standing inequity in the state's foundation aid formula that disproportionately hurts low - income districts.

The New York State United Teachers union today is bringing in hundreds of advocates to push for additional aid for schools and education in the state budget.

Also at noon, Compassion & Choices, legislators and advocates will kick off the campaign to pass New York's Medical Aid in Dying Act, next to the Senate staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Advocates, including the roughly two dozen groups that support the City Council legislation, promoted a state plan to reduce new HIV infections in New York from the current roughly 3,000 a year to 750 by 2020, which they say would «end» AIDS as an epidemic in New York.

Worked with the Legislature and Governor to successfully advocate for a significant investment in State Aid and to eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA);

Why is the de Blasio administration, aided by his cats» paws in the Council and Public Advocate's office, putting so much political capital into this fight?

Advocates rallied at Foley Square in Manhattan as part of a nationwide «Day of Action» to demand that the U.S. government approve more aid for the heavily damaged island.

Thus the new budget manipulates future aid formulas in a way that one advocate says will cost city charters some $ 1.7 billion over the next several years.

The state must cough up $ 13 million in aid for struggling public schools, including nearly $ 4 million earmarked for city schools, advocates claim in a letter sent to the Cuomo administration.

«In terms of advocating on school aid and looking for more money, that's certainly [the Education Department's] position, but it's also the Legislature's position,» Greenberg said.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER A March 13 protest by AIDS and housing advocates outside the Midtown office of Governor Andrew Cuomo ended in 10 arrests, as demonstrators unfurled two banners across Third Avenue, blocking traffic.

First, advocates who seek additional aid for education frequently invoke the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and the Legislature's adoption of «Foundation Aid» in 2007, insinuating that the CFE lawsuit found that schools statewide were underfunded and that the court ordered additional funding statewiaid for education frequently invoke the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and the Legislature's adoption of «Foundation Aid» in 2007, insinuating that the CFE lawsuit found that schools statewide were underfunded and that the court ordered additional funding statewiAid» in 2007, insinuating that the CFE lawsuit found that schools statewide were underfunded and that the court ordered additional funding statewide.

The NYCLU — along with Public Advocate Letitia James, the Legal Aid Society, the NAACP and the New York Post — filed the appeal in the appellate division of New York Supreme Court to overturn a judge's decision not to release testimony from the grand jury.

The firm's nine clients listed on its county registry include the New York Cosmos soccer team, which is seeking to build a stadium on state property in Elmont; the Nassau County Village Officials Association, which advocates for state and county aid, and the nonprofit Family Residences & Essential Enterprises Inc., which for years has received grant - funded county contracts to provide various mental health services.

Still, Torres advocated using the $ 400 million in surplus BPCA revenues over the next 10 years to aid in addressing aging NYCHA infrastructure.

In the intervening hours between her comments and the apology, the campaign and LGBT advocates conferred over the need to urgently address the comments, Richard Socarides, an aide to former president Bill Clinton and adviser on gay rights and AIDS issues in the Clinton White House, acknowledged in an intervieIn the intervening hours between her comments and the apology, the campaign and LGBT advocates conferred over the need to urgently address the comments, Richard Socarides, an aide to former president Bill Clinton and adviser on gay rights and AIDS issues in the Clinton White House, acknowledged in an interviein the Clinton White House, acknowledged in an interviein an interview.

At noon Monday, a coalition of over 90 HIV / AIDS advocates will launch a statewide Week of Action on the steps of City Hall, calling upon Governor Cuomo to invest $ 70 million in a plan to end AIDS in the 2016 New York State budget.

Regarded as right of centre, Pritchard nonetheless was one of the first advocates of compassionate conservatism in the United Kingdom and has vocally supported the coalition government's policy of increased spending on international aid.

Vocal New York, the group behind some of the protests, was formed in the 1980s to advocate for people living with AIDS and HIV.

«As the public advocate and an attorney, previously worked of the Legal Aid Society, I will also serve as an attorney in this capacity, pro bono,» Ms. James said at a press conference on the City Hall steps Tuesday.

On Wednesday morning, on the day before the Mayor was to unveil his budget, advocates that included representatives from Alianza Dominicana, Children's Aid Society, the Children Arts and Sciences Workshop, ACDP, Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI), Community League of the Heights (C.L.O.T.H.), the Police Athletic League (P.A.L.), and representatives from local New York City Councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares and Herman D. Farrell, among others, gathered in an early morning meeting to brain - storm about strategies to ward off the cuts.

There is a growing drive from local government advocates as well to make some changes to the cap that could be coupled with mandate relief or even a boost in state aid.

Several hundred advocates came to the Capitol from around the state yesterday to push legislators and Cuomo to include $ 70 million in the state budget to end the AIDS epidemic.

Dating back at least to 2006, advocates have tried to close an anomaly in housing aid to certain clients of the city's HIV / AIDS Housing Administration (HASA), by providing sufficient support so that their out - of - pocket rents are no more than 30 percent of their monthly income.

The mayor, the governor, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and many others were / are in San Juan this week to show solidarity with the island territory as it faces a debt crisis, to attend the annual Somos El Futuro conference, and to put pressure on Congress to aid Puerto Rico with its financial crisis.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Despite a concerted drive in recent weeks by advocates and elected officials, Governor Andrew Cuomo's Executive Budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1 does not include appropriation of funds to ensure that New Yorkers living with AIDS and receiving government rental assistance will have the effective rent they pay capped at -LSB-...]

Both of Michigan's then - senators, Democrats Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin, advocated to continue TARP funding specifically to aid the auto industry, which has a heavy presence in their home state.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE The Plan to End AIDS continues to confront money problems as Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget for the state's 2017 fiscal year will spend only $ 40 million on the plan, an amount that is well below the more than $ 100 million that advocates had hoped the state would spend in the current -LSB-...]

School funding advocates are concerned that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is setting up for another political battle over school aid next year in a little - noticed provision in his new state budget.

Buchwald chimed in with: «By identifying school districts that are getting too small a percentage of Foundation Aid we can go to our colleagues and advocate for raising the floor of Foundation Aid.

Espaillat predicted the same communities now advocating for property tax relief through a cap will be seeking additional education aid from the Senate once they see how much they're going to lose in Cuomo's proposal.

Shelley Mayer has been a vigorous advocate for the protection of our environment, cosponsoring a bill that prohibited oil barges from anchoring in the Hudson River and securing $ 3 million for flood mitigation aid after Hurricane Sandy.

Lawmakers are close to a $ 1 billion increase in education aid, but that is not the $ 1.5 billion hike education advocates are seeking.

At 2 p.m., Compassion & Choices New York, joined by physicians, patients and advocates, will present petitions in support of New York's Medical Aid in Dying Act, New York State Capitol, War Room, Albany.

Are school district reserves high enough to cover state cuts, and efficiencies in management available that would make teacher cuts unnecessary, as Cuomo administration staffers maintain, or are these areas so thin that the scale of reduced state aid made teacher layoffs unavoidable, as school advocates claim?

Cuomo has long pushed back against calls from public education advocates to increase annual school foundation aid in the budget by more than $ 1 billion.

Mattituck - Cutchogue School District Superintendent Anne Smith said in an email Tuesday that while school districts are just starting to evaluate how the latest proposed tax cap and state aid figures will affect their budgets, efforts are already underway to advocate for more funding.

Seward advocated for an increase in state aid to schools this year and pushed for the continued reduction of the gap elimination adjustment which helped improve school finances.