Sentences with phrase «becoming activists»

Writing in The Guardian, Ms Long - Bailey said: «The crowds we drew to rallies last year, and to even bigger ones this year, are now becoming activists in local parties, with some decent results.

The crowds we drew to rallies last year, and to even bigger ones this year, are now becoming activists in local parties, with some decent results.

In South Korea, where 90 percent of children born to single moms are put up for adoption, single moms are becoming activists to fight back against societal prejudice.

While Fudge knew many admired Unilever's purpose - driven corporate culture, she and her colleagues on the board were pleasantly surprised by how well it served the company when it became an activist target.

You have become an activist instead of a qualified analyst.

All plans, intentions, motives, strategies, and objectives of the shareholder with respect to becoming an activist investor and with respect to the nomination or shareholder proposal;

In addition, any person who could potentially become an activist investor of a Texas - based public company and who solicits money from an investor must, before accepting money and at least once each year, provide written notice to any such prospective investor stating that it could potentially become subject to these rules and a copy of the Texas Act.

Plain and simple, but atheists are so afraid of christian opinions they have become an activist church in themselves.

The next step I needed to take in order to become an activist was to reclaim my relationships with Israel and with my family.

I've gone on to become an activist for other things.

In order for people to get angry enough to become activists for stricter sentencing for sexual assault, they need to be thinking of their daughter (or son) as the future victim who is standing in a courtroom being indirectly blamed, or perhaps not even believed.

He has PDD and many food allergies and through him, I have become an activist and close to an expert in some areas (food allergies), out of my love for him.

If you're wanting to become an activist organisation for the many, not the few, then charging # 500 is not the way to go about representing a young membership.»

Many young people who got their first taste of politics on 15 February 2003 became activists years later, and were involved in the Occupy movement and other social movements since.

Transportation advocates called on frustrated subway riders to become activists by tweeting their frustrations with the system directly to Cuomo.

That's why I became an activist in the early 1990s, joined the fresh - faced Policy Exchange think tank and then supported David Cameron in the 2005 leadership election.

After a stint in the Marines, Radford, 45, became an activist and organizer on a number of fronts, including president of the student government at Erie Community College, a trainer with the Martin Luther King Institute for Nonviolence, and head of a youth detention center for at - risk kids and a homeless shelter for young women.

Sharyl Nass, a Ph.D. cell biologist from Georgetown University, became an activist when she started her postdoc at Johns Hopkins University, an institution with a large postdoc association already well established.

In recent years, Hansen, 72, has become an activist for climate change, which didn't sit well with NASA headquarters in Washington.

Platt's work on HIV / AIDS has taken him to South Africa and Ethiopia and opened his eyes to the need for doctors and scientists to become activists at times.

I had to cross the line and become an activist, filing Freedom of Information Act requests and working with politicians and people on the ground.

Former NASA lead scientist James Hansen is so concerned for the future of his grandchildren, he was forced to become an activist, including an arrest to oppose mountain - top removal coal mining.

He decided to become an activist and has since been arrested 13 times in his crusade to help animals.

There are many ways to Get Involved with the Weston A. Price Foundation, to take charge of your family's diet and health, to find a local chapter, or to become an activist for food freedom.

I have recently become an activist

If you've paid any attention to the young adult book market over the past couple of years, you're probably familiar with The Hate U Give, author Angie Thomas «s wildly popular best - seller about a young black woman who becomes an activist after seeing the police gun down her unarmed friend.

These volunteers (those profiled are all male) are ordinary people who felt compelled to become activists after the Arab Spring unleashed a rebellion against the tyrannical Assad government, causing a political vacuum that ISIS brutally exploited.

«You have to believe he has the soulfulness of becoming an activist, but also someone who needs to pay the bills.

They're a small group of mostly anonymous Raqqa residents who became activists, risking and sometimes losing their lives while reporting from the heart of IS darkness

While Cecil is performing admirably in his duties, his eldest son Louis (David Oyelowo) becomes an activist, determined to secure racial equality.

The only sympathetic shoulder Marcus finds to lean on is that of Patricia (Kerry Washington), an old flame who has become an activist attorney since they were last an item.

What inspired you to become an activist in educating young West African girls?

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.

Students become activists through an elective course that has them join in more than 50 voluntary service projects and a long - term project for the term.

Calm is what we need as we become activists for our students and community.

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.

Ford's two sons attended Animo Inglewood Charter High School and she initially became an activist to support Green Dot Public Schools, the charter network that manages the school.

The reality is apparent in the sometimes questionably legal tactics, outright thuggery and other desperate measures the unions have taken since the parents became activists.

There are many inspiring examples of young people coming from such challenges to become activists on behalf of their fellow students and communities, to fight injustice, and to be the change they want to see in the world, despite many obstacles.

Her first book, Becoming Activist: Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing is now available from Peter Lang Publishing.

She exhorts teachers to become activists for equity in education — and make their students allies in the struggle.

The book closes with accessible ways for young readers to become activists.

Coping with terminal illness, finding faith, seeking parole, becoming an activist — all try to find meaning in their thwarted lives.

After visiting Caroline's New England lilac - surrounded heritage family home much later, Martha felt compelled to write about the New York actress and debutante who became an activist on behalf of women o

The People's Victory shares deeply moving personal testimonies of men and women who lost their spouses to death, only to lose everything they've built for decades; parents who became activists to save th...

Everyone can become an activist — without ever marching, holding a sign, or writing letters to officials.

Whether it's through education, becoming an activist, or simply donating money or supplies to organizations — all of these will make a difference.

He's become an activist ever since he purchased Dakota at Happiness is Pets around Christmas in 2011.

Through a lifelong process of study and experience, Krystal has become an activist for animals.

* Become an activist.