Sentences with phrase «black members opposed»

The council ultimately approved the land use permit; the four white members overruled the three black members opposed to the project.

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Blacks alongside gays, alongside Hispanics, alongside the poor and the middleclass??? Shouldn't we all band together in a common cause - to be recognized and accepted, for equal rights for all members of our society??? Shouldn't the 99 % be the voice of this country - as opposed to the oppressive 1 %??? I think we should all band together - pushing for a common cause, and making America the true beacon of what a Modern society looks like!

The online activist group Color of Change is targeting ten members of the Congressional Black Caucus for opposing net neutrality and «doing the bidding of big phone and cable companies.»

Last month, dozens of council members, including Mark - Viverito, protested a grand jury's decision not to an indict an officer in the death of an unarmed black man on Staten Island, and members have continued to push for police reforms opposed by both Bratton and Lynch.

But Benjamin cautioned that members of the black and Latino caucus are very much opposed to the idea of untethering SUNY from the Legislature's control, in part due to a concern that tuitions would rise out of the reach of low and middle - income students, but also simply because lawmakers don't like the idea of giving up control of anything.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

about mayoral control, non-educators running public school systems, Klein's legacy, and who Cathie Black was — and wasn't; we saw Steiner appoint an eight - member panel of experts to advise him on whether to grant a legally - required waiver to non-educator Black, Checker call the need for a waiver «antiquated,» the special panel recommend no waiver, polls showing New Yorkers opposing Black, a flurry of celebs — including Gloria Steinem and Whoopee Goldberg — weighing in to support her, Steiner losing sleep.

Even as NEA and AFT affiliates rallied rank - and - file members to the state capital in order to remind legislators that they will attempt to make them pay for opposing the union's will, Parent Power groups such as Black Alliance for Educational Options rallied members to call state senators and made clear that families would no longer sit on the sidelines.