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The Foundation's Artist as Activist program, provides game - changing resources to artists of all disciplines who address important global challenges through their creative practice.

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There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

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Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

Those who have the jobs, programs, and activist networks that they understandably want to protect and enhance can only view dialogue as threatening.

We might call that the «external program» of the Counter-Culture, circa 1965 - 1968, posed as an alternative to the way the New Left activists of the day were staking so much upon political action, with an intensity that ran into ever more radical stances.

Yet, as noted, activist population programs have been embraced by governments presiding over something like four - fifths of the people of the Third World.

In support of these lawmakers» efforts and to express our own dismay — as mothers, consumers and food activists — regarding these developments, Nancy, Barbara and I have launched a Change.org petition asking Congress, President Obama and his administration to to keep Chinese - processed chicken out of school meals and other child nutrition programs, and to prevent the importation of Chinese - raised and - slaughtered poultry.

Again, it's tempting to think of Obama's impressive field campaign and his online organizing programs as separate — the 2,500 + field organizers and volunteer neighborhood teams on one side, the online activists using MyBarackObama.com to set up discussion groups and events on the other.

With an annual budget of over $ 130 million, CPC is one of the largest Asian multi-social service non-profit in the U.S. Founded in 1965 by a few civic minded community activists as the first social service agency to serve Chinese - Americans in New York, CPC currently serves over 8,000 clients each day with over 50 programs in 30 locations throughout New York City.

She now works as an activist to fight corruption and help the poor and disenfranchised with a variety of local community programs, including The Community Pantry, a food pantry in the town of Middletown that serves about 500 local families.

A group of City Council members, left - leaning activists and business leaders are studying some of New York City's tax break programs, such as the Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program, which are set to expire in 2016.

The Republicans said when they emerged from an afternoon huddle that they would take up their own version of rent control — an eight - year extension of the program — that tenant activist Mike McKee blasted as «bullshit.»

That program, known as JARPA II, called for taking 850 minkes, 50 humpbacks, and 50 fin whales annually, though in recent years actual captures fell far below those targets because of interference by antiwhaling activists.

Activists plan to produce a report after Trump's first 100 days in the White House detailing the changes to public data, as well as funding, staffing and programming within agencies (Greenwire, Jan. 5).

Unwilling to write prescriptions for what she considered «poison pills», Dr Pensanti decided to «kick it up a notch» and became an «activist» against synthetic hormones by taking her message to the radio waves as well as her weekly TV program.

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Schwarzenegger Seeks to «Terminate» the Danger Zone With After - School Programs Long known as a successful actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger in recent years also has become an influential activist.

Wire Side Chat: Schwarzenegger Seeks to «Terminate» the Danger Zone With After - School Programs Long known as a successful actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger in recent years also has become an influential activist.

As two teachers» union activists in cities that have the nation's first publicly funded voucher programs, we believe that never in the history of teacher unionism has there been a greater urgency to rethink strategy.

Activists in the effort were largely liberal until the 1980s and 1990s, when conservatives and religious leaders began to capitalize on the idea as a model that could open the door to a larger voucher program.

He received his training in education as a fellow at the Broad Superintendents Academy, an 18 - month program funded by the Broad Foundation of Los Angeles that trains executives from inside and outside education to become activist superintendents for urban districts.

Carl described it as a program «with attributes originally championed by left - liberal policy makers, free - school advocates, and community activists from the 1960s.»

Given that the idea comes from more - rabid school choice activists such as Evers and Burke (along with University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene) who want to shield voucher programs from any accountability, and would get the backing of traditionalists (who oppose testing altogether), eviscerating the testing mandate exposes Kline and House Republicans to charges (from other conservatives) of hypocrisy and being in bed with unions.

In other states, the launch and expansion of voucher programs should be used by school choice supporters as an opportunity to team up with school data quality activists such as the Data Quality Campaign to push for the overhaul of existing data systems and the launch of new, more - comprehensive systems.

Environmental Charter Middle School will host a delegation of activists, educators and nonprofit managers from 19 countries as part of a program to empower women through education.

In addition to the ease of travel, what sets this trip apart is its exclusive experiences such as a day spent with Jonathon Scott, the documentarian and host of the hit BBC program «Big Cat Diary,» and a dinner in Cape Town with Joss Kent, AndBeyond's CEO, and Denis Goldberg, a friend and fellow activist of the late Nelson Mandela.

Building on Artists Space's history as an institution whose program has increasingly emphasized community participation and political organization (see last year's Decolonize This Place, which turned the gallery into a weekly activist meeting hub), Coop Fund foregoes traditional media like painting or sculpture in favor of video, art - science hybrids, updated junk sculpture, and institutional critique, making an implicit statement about these media that, for their associations with high - modernist seriousness, are appropriate to a politically engaged exhibition.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has selected the recipients of its 2016 Artist as Activist Fellowship — a two - year grant program designed to support US based artists and artist collectives tackling important social challenges through their creative practice.

By the mid-1970s, this program of demolition and reconstruction had transformed and modernized nearly one - third of the city, as its methods were increasingly questioned by local social movements associated with civil rights and Black Power activist groups.

The program will focus on Muholi's work as a «visual activist» dedicated to issues of race, gender, and sexuality, and will reflect on this year's 20th anniversary of democracy in South Africa — still a work in progress.

Danny Orendorff is a curator, writer, teacher, and activist currently working as Programs Director for Threewalls, a non-profit gallery in Chicago, IL and as Grant Administrator for the Propeller Fund.

Because all MACLA programs remain loyal to our mission and to our roots as an organization founded by artists / activists committed to using the arts as a catalyst for social change, community development through the arts is the overarching track that informs all our programming decisions.

Scott continued to make films for several decades, like the landmark union activist documentary Nightcleaners (1972, as part of the Berwick Street Film Collective), but he achieved something of particular significance with the works featured in tonight's program.

Arts & Labor was able to broker participation in a panel, organized as part of the «Frieze Talks» program, that brought together Nato Thompson, a curator at the public arts organization Creative Time, and Suzanne Lacy, the activist artist and professor at Otis College in California.

Using Archival Alchemy as platform to creatively respond to the rapidly shifting political landscape, this afternoon of programming brings together artists, activist and community leaders for brainstorming sessions, skill - sharing and workshops for those seeking increased visibility or strategic invisibility within the bureaucratic and digital archives of our day.

Today we announced the ten artists and artist collectives selected for the 2016 Artist as Activist Fellowship — the Foundation's two - year grant program designed to support independent artists and artist collectives who tackle important social challenges through their creative practice.

Japan's whaling program has struggled financially in recent years, as more Japanese consumers turn up their noses at whale meat and as environmental activists chasing whaling boats make the hunts more difficult.

Our trainings foster local leadership and steep learning in local traditions to yield powerful activism, such as the Pacific Warrior Training Program, which has mobilized hundreds of Indigenous activists across many Pacific islands to engage their communities on the impacts of climate change and participate in mass actions confronting the coal industry in Australia.

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However, the programs underlying message to the general public came across to me as that climate science was under attack by climate sceptics or deniers of science who are on a par with those that deny Aids, vaccines and extreme anti GM environmentalist activists.

The NPR folks are about as hardcore AGW alarmist as it gets, which made it nothing less than amazing when NPR last year produced a program entitled «The Inconvenient Truth About Polar Bears,» a story about environmental activist Zac Unger, who moved with his wife and three kids to Manitoba to study, write about, and help «save» polar bears.

Our program is designed as a force - multiplier to help in that pursuit: helping equip young learners, professional activists and other concerned citizens with tools to help spread environmental and social - change messages.

In Turkey, the technology affected targeted users such as journalists and human rights activists, redirecting them to malicious versions of legitimate programs laced with spyware.

Jeff Foster, the Advanced Placement government teacher who has served as a mentor to the student activists, was backstage at the Washington rally and credited the adults with much of the professionalism of the event, from the quality of the videos to the logistics of the on - stage program.

My expertise in the programs as well as being a seasoned cycling activist and instructor make me a great addition to your team.

Last month — even before the release of controversial videos shot by anti-abortion activists — the House of Representatives» appropriations committee voted to cut all funding for the Title X Family Planning Program, which pays for services such as contraception, cancer screenings and HIV tests for low - income women.

That means buttressing existing federal protections at the state level to ensure that anti — family planning activists and policymakers, including those in the Trump administration, do not undermine Medicaid, private insurance or family planning grant programs.22, 23,25 And it means expanding on current protections in various ways: For example, policymakers could address gaps in insurance coverage by requiring Medicaid and private insurance plans to cover vasectomy and condoms, as well as methods obtained without a prescription.