Sentences with phrase «as activists pushed»

A number of Democratic state senators as well as activists pushed legislation on Tuesday that would enshrine equal rights in New York's constitution for every person regardless of gender, sexual orientation or identity, physical or mental disability and more.

A number of Democratic state senators as well as activists pushed legislation that would enshrine equal rights in New York's constitution for every person regardless of gender, sexual orientation or identity, physical or mental disability and more.

Nixon also touted her behind - the - scenes work as an activist pushing for legislation in private meetings with lawmakers.

Not exact matches

«But in fact, the new «activist» investors pushed for seats on boards and pressured management into policies that were viewed as more «shareholder - friendly» — meaning friendlier to short - term investors — including increasing dividends and buyouts.»

Chipotle as part of the announcement also said that it would give its chickens more space (6 pounds per square foot), provide them with improved lighting and litter in their housing, and change how its chickens are slaughtered to a practice pushed for by animal welfare activists.

It rarely pushes out a CEO the way some other activists do, and it often sticks around, often for years, as transformations occur.

While reporting on a protest by a group of activists who had just forced the university's president to resign, he was pushed and harassed by the demonstrators, as well as by a faculty member.

Niblock, 55, is stepping aside as activist investor D.E. Shaw & Co. pushes Lowe's to match growth at Home Depot.

Maybe this is why I am so against this push by the gay activists to make life even more confusing for kids: Lets be really clear: nearly every country on Earth has outlawed homosexuality in its not too distant past, and most of them won't allow such silly games as SSM.

but basically a lot of «progressive» activists are trying to push an agenda that «hate speech» is incredibly harmful to the fabric of society and certain buzz words that could be interpreted as derogatory will land you in a lot of hot water with them (i.e. you can't say faggot because its offensive to gays).

Schneiderman, meanwhile, fought back, selling himself as a progressive activist who will use the attorney general's office as a stage for pushing reform.

Community activists have been pushing for such an agreement to guarantee local jobs and job training as part of the Inner Harbor project.

Throughout the debate, Schneiderman painted himself as an activist who will use the office to weigh in on national debates, pushing for women's reproductive rights, gay marriage and immigration reform.

But ironically, keeping the WFP's ballot status, much less its spot at Row E, appears to be increasingly a concern for party leaders and activists as the governor pushes for voters to back him on the Women's Equality Party line, which is increasingly being seen as a rival for liberals» votes and potential siphon away support from the WFP.

This afternoon's event was supposed to focus on gun crimes in low - income communities, and to push for more city funding for summer jobs intiatives, but activist Tamika Mallory took it as an opportunity to blast the commissioner for his «disparaging» remarks.

Soares said Wednesday that as lawmakers and activists push reforms to the criminal justice system, he hopes this case will reignite conversations between law enforcement and members of the community.

Clinton's past support of fracking has bubbled up as an issue in New York, which banned the underground natural - gas extraction in 2015 and where activists have pushed Clinton to abandon her previous position.

Other gay rights activists have defended the administration, while at the same time pushing Congress to act on broader issues such as passage of an employment non-discrimination act and an end to the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

When activists in the Working Families Party attempted to run Teachout as their candidate on the WFP ballot line this coming November, Cuomo cut a deal to push the party's agenda and get the line himself.

But Cuomo's fiscally moderate first term alienated some party activists, and in 2014 there was a push to endorse Zephyr Teachout, a law professor who is now serving as Nixon's campaign treasurer.

Dozens of students, parents, educators and activists are urging the U.S. Senate not to confirm John King, President Obama's choice to succeed Arne Duncan as education secretary, because he pushed education policies when he was education commissioner of New York State that they say were «ineffective and destructive.»

Democratic activists have become increasingly aggressive in their push to unseat the IDC's eight members — most of whom represent NYC districts — forming groups such as No IDC NY, True Blue NY and NY Indivisible, which are all actively courting primary contenders to take on IDC candidates next year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio journeyed to Albany Wednesday to rally with Democratic legislators and activists for the extension of the «millionaires» tax,» set to expire this year, as well as the «mansion tax,» a proposal the mayor has been pushing since 2015.

However, the push to extend lifelines to nuclear power has collided with the goals of other environmental activists who have spent decades railing against reactors as expensive and unsafe, creating cracks in the coalition that helped bring nations to an international agreement to fight climate change.

Working in tandem with such groups as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for a Safe Environment, along with the Teamsters and Longshoremen's unions and local activists like Martha Cota, they've done extensive lobbying in Sacramento and community organizing to push for enforcement of the California Environmental Quality Act and compel the Port of Los Angeles to initiate a suite of pollution - reduction strategies that have cleaned up the air.

He is the only artist in China known to the West as he pushes boundaries, makes the authorities more aware and is an Activist.

As Malkin said, «[Trump] says he's going to end Common Core, then he nominates a woman that every last grassroots activist in Michigan knows was not just mouthing words of support for Common Core, but funding the main state non-profit organization that was pushing it.»

Perhaps leaders of the NAEA push an activist agenda not because they want arts teachers to become activists themselves, but because they believe that high - sounding epithets such as «social justice» and noble visions of «equity» will advance the cause of arts education.

Stutman described the activists who are pushing his union for reforms as «helpful.»

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

«While it's true that currently the students opting out are disproportionately white, to portray opting out as a white people thing is to make invisible the important leadership role that people of color have played around the country,» writes teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian in an article he wrote to push back against the perceived wisdom that high - stakes standardized testing will somehow right the wrongs done to generations of children.

As reported in a New Haven Register article entitled, Connecticut education activists continue push to address «failing» schools,» the group will be using their resources to push for more charter schools.

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.

Well, quite a lot... in the past 18 months, we've actually seen Pageant emerge as a vocal & public activist, pushing NTR plc to realise assets & return capital to shareholders.

As we have seen across the country, activists will push to ban the sale of as many types of pets as possiblAs we have seen across the country, activists will push to ban the sale of as many types of pets as possiblas many types of pets as possiblas possible.

artists pushing the boundaries to act as instigators, collaborators, activists and designers, bringing in a fresh point of view, working on a scale beyond the studio; connecting with communities and creating projects with a high level of functionality

Across the country, Sierra Club activists have been raising their voices about a «free trade» scheme that would do more environmental harm than help if it's pushed through the finish line as - is.

Enviro - activists using the mainstream media's monster - megaphone to push claims of catastrophic man - caused global warming as a settled science needing immediate fixing have almost completely drowned out the opposition, and an unmistakable part of the blaring 20 year + message was the demand to ignore industry - bribed skeptics.

The ACC also pushed to include more about plastic bag recycling in the text, but activists point out that despite the industry's efforts to push recycling as a solution to plastic pollution, less than 10 % of the 100 billion plastic bags used in the United States each year are recycled, and recycling does not address the impact plastic bags and packaging have on both animal and human health.

82) Politicians and activists push for renewable energy sources such as wind turbines under the rhetoric of climate change, but it is essentially about money — under the system of Renewable Obligations.

State - level changes coincide with federal push for looser coal ash regulation — even as utility shareholders and activists push for more stringent management.

The whole account also serves as another reminder of how activist our media environment has become — climate denial blogs swiftly ran the story, sure, but Fox News quickly pushed it out the gate too, treating the event as ammunition for fighting an ideological battle as opposed to something that should require, you know, investigating or something.

The surprise to me with this lawsuit is that it doesn't feature sensational evidence like others did — the older Kivalina v Exxon case and the newer San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach v. Chevron cases — by citing the infamous «leaked memo set» headlined with «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» which are universally accepted among enviro - activists as smoking gun evidence of skeptic climate scientists being paid to push misinformation to the public at the behest of sinister corporate handlers.

As activist investors push for board diversity and even pay equity, new pay equity laws bring severe consequences for non-compliance.