Sentences with phrase «by citizen action»

In the long run, however, I hope that it won't be the enemy that matters, but the solidarity inspired by citizen action.

The letter is signed by Citizens Action's Karen Scharff, 1199's George Gresham, 32BJ's Mike Fishman, 52nd AD District Leader Dorothy Siegel (treasurer of the WFP since Mike McGuire resigned amid the whole DFS mess), and the Long Island Progressive Coalition's Lisa Tyson — all of whom have endorsed the Manhattan Democrat's statewide bid.

Not exact matches

Gillibrand was endorsed Tuesday by End Citizens United, a political action committee established in 2015 to push back against the results of the 2010 court case.

The bill's introduction also comes amid various actions and statements by the Trump administration, including a fourth round of sanctions that restrict Venezuela and Petróleos de Venezuela SA, a state - owned oil company, from issuing new debt or from engaging in other financial dealings with U.S. citizens.

In this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizens.

Bank of America has been hit with a proposed class action by a Brazilian citizen who said he was denied a job at the bank because his work authorization, granted under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, is subject to reaction by a Brazilian citizen who said he was denied a job at the bank because his work authorization, granted under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, is subject to reAction for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, is subject to renewal.

States are taking action on climate change and the environment — and being held accountable by their citizens.

Who can volunteer: Participants must have an undergraduate degree from an accredited college by their first day of training; have a minimum grade point average of 2.5; and be a citizen, legal permanent resident, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient.

BUT once in, Western nations need to protect their OWN CITIZENS against these marauding Muslims everytime their beliefs are hurt by somone's actions IN ANY CORNER OF THE WORLD!!!!!

It is constituted by the actions of officials, administrations, agencies, parties, factions and citizens.

But if such reshaping of national fertility patterns is to be set in motion by government action, there would obviously have to be direct, far - reaching, and even forcible state interventions into the daily lives of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of these two countries — as well as others with similar «targets.»

«When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of public obligation, imposed by State law).

Thus «the economy» is presented as a force working on its own, beyond comprehension by the average person or action by the average citizen.

Though formulated by some of the toughest minds in the history of modern philosophy — Hobbes, Locke, Flume, and Adam Smith — this tradition gave rise to what would appear to be the most wildly utopian idea in the history of political thought, namely, that a good society can result from the actions of citizens motivated by self - interest alone when those actions are organized through the proper mechanisms.

The system of checks and balances they built in the Constitution was formed not only by the recognition that good citizens may differ over the proper course of action, but also, at least in part, by the Biblical understanding of humans as fallible and prone to wrong - doing, and therefore frequently in need of some healthy opposition from their fellows.

Lawyers from the Becket Fund and the Alliance Defense Fund plan to speak at some of today's rallies, organized by the Pro-Life Action League and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Support by citizens of such action as will lift the living standards and the human dignity of the millions of underprivileged, nonwhite peoples of the earth is imperative.

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.

The use of arms by citizens to defend themselves against the actions of Federal Government — ended in their deaths and as far as I can tell has done so, pretty much every time.

Although many of these claims challenge the veracity of «organic,» «healthy,» and «100 %» claims on labels, several states are affording new opportunities to attack ingredient labels — an area that federal courts have traditionally found to be preempted (barred) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with no private right of action for individual citizens.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

I attended a reading by her earlier this week and was inspired by her call to citizen action.

My second response point is that you are conflating state action taken by the school with private citizen action.

A citizens group began the drive to disband the Gurnee Park District earlier this year after the group was angered by a series of actions that it feared would drive up property taxes.

Baby Milk Action is the UK member of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network), a global network of over 270 citizens groups in more than 160 countries that has been working since 1980 to stop misleading marketing by the baby feeding industry.

The government of the Philippines has both the legal and moral authority to enact laws to protect the health of its citizens, and the action taken by American companies amounts to an attack on the sovereignty of the Filipino nation.

But beyond this call, is an uninspiring preparation characterized by gaps between what we profess and our political actions; a case of more speech with less action by all parties (state actors / citizens) alike.

By engaging citizens in a wider discussion, it is shaping a certain type of Romanian citizen, a critical one, capable of engaging in civilized discussions with his fellow citizens, of taking action whenever needed and of holding the political leaders accountable for their actions.

When one race of citizens feels as though their lives don't matter; when refugees successfully escape the horrors of war only to be further brutalized on foreign soil; when the already - traumatized victims of conflict are violated by international peacekeepers who were sent to ensure their safety and wellbeing, then we as leaders, we as a world community must stop being silent and start taking action.

At 12:15 p.m., concerned citizens, led by Altamont Main Street USA and including members of MoveOn.org, Citizen Action of NY, the Working Families Party and others gather outside the offices of U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand for a peaceful rally in opposition to Trump's cabinet appointees, Leo O'Brien Federal Building, N. Pearl Street and Clinton Avenue, Albany.

The September 2015 letter is downloadable here and was signed by: Citizen Action, Citizens Budget Commission, Citizens Union, Good Jobs New York, League of Women Voters of NY State, New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany.

John Gromada of the Rockland Citizens Action Network says, «We've been burned by Senator Carlucci before when he promised to return to the Democratic Caucus in 2014 if we didn't run a primary.

Move Forward New York is a citizen action group committed to promoting social justice, preserving civil rights, and ensuring environmental conservation by encouraging participation in the political process on all levels through education, collaboration, and activism.

We are currently seeking cosigners for this petition among fellow our Waterkeeper Alliance members as well as any other environmental and citizen action groups whose constituencies have been affected by CKD pollution.

The new law represented a shift by the governor, who, in a 2015 interview, said that Citizens United could be addressed only by federal court or congressional actions, not states».

«The vast majority of crimes committed by youth are misdemeanors and notably, under this proposal, the most serious crimes would continue to be handled in the criminal court system and all youth would be held accountable for their actions,» said Jennifer March, executive director of the Citizens» Committee for Children of New York.

They were joined by good government groups, including Citizen Action, Citizens Union, Common Cause, LWVNYS, NYPIRG, and Reinvent Albany.

The flyer being handed out by the political advocacy group Citizens Action of New York discussed her «dangerous record» on social security and Medicare.

There will also be a candidate list submitted by a citizens» action group called Dream Job.

Polling by American Solutions, a citizen action network I founded in 2007, shows that on issues such as producing more American energy, cutting taxes to create jobs, balancing the budget by cutting spending, English as the language of government, and more, Americans oppose the views of academic elites by 75 to 85 percent.

«Painfully, Nigerians are yet to see any concrete action taken by the Buhari Presidency to apprehend the perpetrators of the gruesome killings in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara, Adamawa, Borno, Plateau, Nasarawa and Yobe, among other states, where our citizens are being hacked down by marauders and insurgents.

The Democratic political action committee End Citizens United wasted little time in criticizing Rep. Claudia Tenney's vote in favor of the tax overhaul bill, approved Wednesday in the House of Representatives and signed by President Trump.

«Billion - dollar personnel costs in both counties should not only push officials to make some tough decisions here, but get citizens to demand action and realize this problem is one of the big reasons Long Island is so unaffordable,» said Doug Kellogg, communications director for Reclaim New York, a Manhattan - based government watchdog group chaired by Rebekah Mercer, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump.

The project had been designed for foreign signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection but, Binney alleged, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, controls that limited unintentional collection of data pertaining to U.S. citizens were removed, prompting concerns by him and others that the actions were illegal and unconstitutional.

New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.

While reacting to a purported protest carried out by members of the association, the State Government said though it was not against peaceful protest by aggrieved citizens but it would not be stampeded into taking any action without strictly following due process and rule of law.

Professor Oshita said the acrimony being promoted by the actions and utterances of politicians and other key personalities in the state was counterproductive and not in the interest of the ordinary citizens and residents of Rivers State and Nigeria as a whole.

In line with the change agenda of the federal government of Nigeria and the «Change Begins with Me Campaign», the Nigeria Police force under my leadership is ensuring accountability by ensuring that citizens and residents of the country have a unit through which all grievances against police actions and inactions are taken and redressed.