Sentences with phrase «as an activist at»

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

I began this journey as an activist at 13 — and there's no reason we can not and should not inspire, educate and mobilize from the youngest of ages in every community, beginning today.

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The show cast six supporting «citizen journalists» who reflect the broad swath of personalities on the right, with a gun - rights activist in the vein of bombastic NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, provocateurs in the vein of Milo Yiannopoulos, what Miller described as a «pseudo-intellectual with no real credentials,» and a stay - at - home livestreamer rambling without much of a point.

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).

Directors must insist on asking management to analyze strategic choices as an activist would: by looking at alternatives to the strategies the CEO is recommending.

So when some 15 years later — as a portfolio manager at one of the most influential activist hedge funds — Cohn launched a hostile bid to acquire Novell, he mentioned the accolade in his letter to the board.

Recently, the Twitter customer service account at Bank of America received bad press for confusing an Occupy Wall Street activist, who was protesting against the bank, as a customer in need of help.

Activists, said Michelle Edkins at BlackRock, «can act as an important «check and balance» on management that has lost its way.»

Shapiro started his career as a syndicated conservative columnist at the age of 17 but wrote a critique in February of Parkland activists like Hogg and Gonzalez, pointing out their youth and saying, «Children and teenagers are not fully rational actors.

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

But as with past Supreme Court ATS decisions, the justices once again failed to shut the door entirely on human rights activists: the ruling said nothing about the many ATS claims pending against American corporations.

It's something of a moot point now, as school administrators have decided not to allow conservative activist Charlie Kirk to speak at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a pro-gun rights student there, Kyle Kashuv, invited him.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Hundreds of activists gathered to call for the release of a handful of refugees and immigrants who are being detained at the airport, as customs officials seek more clarification from the White House as to the extend of the ban.

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.

At Corpgov.net, corporate governance advocate James McRitchie quoted Gallagher as stating, «Activist investors and corporate gadflies have used these loose rules to hijack the shareholder proposal system.»

RICHMOND, B.C. — A Vancouver sex - trade activist recounted the justice system's failure to protect women who were killed or have disappeared as posters of missing persons were shown on screens Wednesday at a national inquiry.

Si2 provides overview reports on the main environmental, social and governance issues raised by activist shareholders in their proposals to companies, as well as impartial breakout reports on the proposals awaiting votes at companies.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

Among those who took a turn at the microphone was Nezar Hamze, South Florida executive director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, viewed as a leading activist organization by the Muslim community and as an arm of militant Islam by its critics.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

At least they would exclude the «activists»» those who are so impertinent as to act upon their convictions.

We see clearly in the result of the 2016 presidential election that political outcomes can act as a brake on runaway cultural agendas promoted by activists and elites at the extremes of public opinion.

At any rate, it's an economic view of liberty as a means that brings with it a political commitment to an activist, interventionist tax policy of incentives and disincentives.

At the same time, it provides grounds for a sympathetic critique of the charismatic movement's foibles, as well as of the foibles of evangelicals and social activists.

Hundreds of people attended and even more stood at the gates waiting to get in — a 300 person limit had been placed on the gathering — as politicians, city officials, interfaith leaders and activists spoke from the steps telling Mayor Bloomberg why he should change his mind.

She was a stay - at - home mother who launched a full - time career as a political activist and public speaker from nearly the day her first child was born, doing a neat end - run around the feminists who claimed to have invented the idea that a married woman could have a professional life.

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

That a lot of secular progressives are fierce supporters of the abortion license because they're eugenicists at heart shouldn't come as a surprise; one current member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had a Gruberian moment some years ago when she admitted in an interview that legal activists promoting the abortion license prior to 1973 did so in part because they thought it would cut down the «growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.»

Assisting a beggar at the door of the Nunciature (even if it was Corporal Hitler) is hardly tantamount to bankrolling a political activist and in any case the post First World War charitable activities of Archbishop Pacelli in Berlin and throughout Germany were the precursor to the establishment of what would eventually become the Institute of Religious Works (aka «Vatican Bank») under the direct supervision of the nun who ran Pacelli's household before and after his election as pope.

No doubt, h0m0 activist groups will claim that psyc has at last recognized that h0m0 is as «normal» as hetero.

Pro-sod author Leigh Rutledge describes the attack in her book The Gay Decades, June 16, A fist fight broke out at a Philadelphia playhouse when ten gay activists interrupted a lecture by David Rueben and denounced him as a criminal for his views on male gay.

No doubt,,,,,,, h0m0 activist groups will claim that psyc has at last recognized that h0m0 is as «normal» as hetero They will be wrong.

Pro-sod author Leigh Rutledge describes the attack in her book The Gay Decades, June 16, A fist fight broke out at a Philadelphia playhouse when ten gay activists interrupted a lecture by D.r. David Rueben and denounced him as a criminal for his views on male gay.

Inspired by examples of American civil rights activists, such as the freedom riders of 1961, HRPM members travel at a moment's notice to fight injustice and defend villagers thrown off their land, persecuted believers of any religion, and the human rights of all.

«Science and technology are on our side,» Denise Harle, who defends pro-life health care workers and activists as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, said at the Evangelicals for Life event.

As for Mr. Trump, defender of traditional culture and religious freedom against «secular judges,» that forlorn hope is belied by the warm welcome afforded proponents of lifestyle libertinism — the principal driver of activist federal judging - as - legislating — at the Republican convention in ClevelanAs for Mr. Trump, defender of traditional culture and religious freedom against «secular judges,» that forlorn hope is belied by the warm welcome afforded proponents of lifestyle libertinism — the principal driver of activist federal judging - as - legislating — at the Republican convention in Clevelanas - legislating — at the Republican convention in Cleveland.

I guess some might say, maybe, that's a part of the strategy of the principalities and powers,» author and activist Shane Claiborne says with a faint laugh as we begin to discuss his arrest at a DACA - related protest in Washington D.C. last week.

This fight clearly aims at the current model of the family, which is experienced as a form of social conditioning and as an obstacle to the expression of the activists» «deep self,» that is, their gender.

Regardless of their efforts at rigor, however, peace activists will ultimately call on people to make decisions with their hearts as well as their heads.

At least 20 unarmed men were executed by Syrian troops in Damascus, according to opposition activists, as the government said Monday that the country's chemical weapons were secure and would never be used against civilians.

On August 8, my colleagues and I found ourselves helpless at the news that a group of people, now identified as militant activists, vandalized and destroyed one of our Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines.

Immigrants — as well as chefs, activists, restaurant owners, servers, and lawyers — take center stage at these dinners, engaging and educating diners about the realities undocumented people face living and working here.

It's the same thing as someone stopping at a LLL booth to plop down their bottle and can of formula, mix it up, and then feed the baby while having it photodocumented so you can piss off BF activists online.

In front of a packed audience in the State Dining Room at the White House on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service announcements, cartoon characters as nutrition experts, as well as those most directly affected — the kids themselves.

I consider my work «radical» because, although «radical» or «activist» work at large is perceived as protests and / or changing legislation, I believe that the emotional labor, relationship building, and advocacy are important (and overlooked) parts of justice work.

Now, a group of West Side activists is demanding that the Chicago Park District take better care of the baseball diamonds at Columbus Park, located off of Central Avenue and the Eisenhower Expressway, as well as nearby Garfield Park.

Sometimes that will involve appeals to logic or to facts (data presented in visual form can be a powerful persuasive tool), but at least as often activists use emotion to sway opinions.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.