Sentences with phrase «by progressive activist»

The community school is the contemporary version of the 19th - century settlement houses founded by the progressive activist and sociologist Jane Addams on the theory that social ills are interconnected and must be approached holistically.

Faso has also taken heat for declining to appear at town - hall meetings organized by progressive activist groups.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was booed by progressive activists Saturday for defending President Obama on the NSA's surveillance programs and suggesting that alleged leaker Edward Snowden broke the law.

Faso has taken fire for declining invitations to attend town hall forums organized by progressive activists and has even been confronted by protesters outside his Kinderhook home.

The first victim of the Climate Change purge is the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a wonderful non-profit organization dedicated to protecting free enterprise from being undermined by progressive activists of all stripes.

Not exact matches

The Liberal leader, who owes her thumping electoral victory in large part to fear of public - sector job cuts promised by the opposition Progressive Conservatives, has promised to govern from the «activist centre.»

The new Canada Child Benefit (CCB) unveiled in the 2016 federal Budget has been widely supported by progressives and anti poverty activists who have long favoured the expansion of income tested child tax credits.

The summit, which reached its midway point today, has been described as a «step in the right direction» by activists and boasts all the hallmarks of the notably progressive attitudes the Catholic Church has adopted since the ascension of Pope Francis last year.»

«We are proud to give our endorsement to a progressive activist who we know will fight side by side with us in the state Legislature.»

But Koppell is apparently siding with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that feels the reunification of the warring Democratic factions in the Senate, which was engineered by the governor a few weeks ago as he started to significantly feel pressure from his own primary challenger, actress and activist Cynthia Nixon, is too little, too late.

Her campaign comes as economic - focused progressives try to build a larger coalition of voters within the party, and as black party activists demand that black voters not be take for granted by the Democratic party.

BY NATHAN RILEY Right in Cynthia Nixon's backyard, just weeks after the actor and activist announced her Democratic primary challenge to Andrew Cuomo, the Hell's Kitchen Democrats — a progressive newcomer on the local political club scene — voted Thursday night to endorse the two - term governor for reelection.

The story was quickly emailed out Tuesday evening by Democrats and activists within the progressive movement who have been eager to see some movement on the issue.

Eastman's upset in Nebraska is a case where progressive activist organizations, including Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Justice Democrats, helped a populist candidate defeat a moderate endorsed by the party's official House campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaignprogressive activist organizations, including Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Justice Democrats, helped a populist candidate defeat a moderate endorsed by the party's official House campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional CampaignProgressive Change Campaign Committee and Justice Democrats, helped a populist candidate defeat a moderate endorsed by the party's official House campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

«It's $ 50 holiday party that's open to the public and attended by progressive Iowan activists,» de Blasio spokesman Eric Phillips said.

«They will be joined by an extraordinary group of community leaders and activists who support Jumaane in pursuing progressive policies that will change the lives of all New Yorkers for the better,» the event description reads.

While Republicans hold a 13 - point registration advantage in the district, progressive activists hoped to capitalize on opposition to Trump by turning out motivated Democrats in the election, Long Island's first since November.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

The Senate candidate is the vice chair of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an organization formerly headed by left - wing activist David Brock and an approved funding group of the progressive Democracy Alliance.

Some New York Democrats have accused Cuomo's efforts of being politically motivated rather than sincere, saying his decision was driven by his primary challenge from progressive activist Cynthia Nixon.

At a conference held by the New York State Progressive Elected Officials Network at the Desmond Sunday, there was no explicit talk of what happened there nearly two years ago, when the party's institutional union backers turned back what was essentially a revolt among its activist members against Cuomo's business - friendly centrism.

«The Working Families Party was created by labor unions, community organizations and progressive activists to advance an agenda and elect candidates who improve the lives of working people.

Activists working to unseat IDC members also cast doubt on Cuomo's motives — and whether he'd push progressive priorities when the primary season had past — while arguing that seven years of «collaboration» with Republicans by IDC Democrats made them unacceptable going forward.

Progressive conservatism pressure group Bright Blue launched its new, trendily titled book Tory Modernisation 2.0: The future of the Conservative party yesterday afternoon, which comprises progressive visions for the party's future by politicians, journalists and activists, a foreword by Francis Maude MP, and a quirkily - angled front cover the typeface of which looks suspiciously likeProgressive conservatism pressure group Bright Blue launched its new, trendily titled book Tory Modernisation 2.0: The future of the Conservative party yesterday afternoon, which comprises progressive visions for the party's future by politicians, journalists and activists, a foreword by Francis Maude MP, and a quirkily - angled front cover the typeface of which looks suspiciously likeprogressive visions for the party's future by politicians, journalists and activists, a foreword by Francis Maude MP, and a quirkily - angled front cover the typeface of which looks suspiciously like Helvetica.

The recent launch of TweetProgress.us by the progressive community already gathers nearly 4,000 progressive activists and influentials into an online directory.

A scheduled Brooklyn College speech by controversial blogger / activist Pamela Geller has the school's progressive Democratic club up in arms.

The summit is being hosted by the Progressive Congress — a nonprofit organization working to connect activists and progressive members of Congress, according to the groupProgressive Congress — a nonprofit organization working to connect activists and progressive members of Congress, according to the groupprogressive members of Congress, according to the group's website.

Cuomo has always been a triangular progressive, hoping his stances on social issues — gay rights, gun control, abortion rights — will sufficiently endear him to the left flank of his party that he could govern as a fiscal moderate, once described by liberal activists as «Governor One Percent» and as «a good, moderate Republican» by Dean Skelos, the former leader of the state Senate.

For instance, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio — who is targeting same sorts of progressive activist and outer borough voters that Mr. Weiner could be aiming for — said his strategy wouldn't be altered by a Weiner candidacy.

Cuomo was able to wrest the WFP line from Zephyr Teachout in 2014 by leveraging the support of the party's unions, whose members split power on the state committee with progressive activists.

The Progressive Agenda, the new activist group started this spring by Mayor Bill de Blasio, is planning to hold a forum with presidential candidates from both parties in Iowa City on Dec. 6.

«I think for careful observers, there's a big progressive movement formed by activists that's coming, and the Working Families Party is going to electoralize that at the polls,» WFP state director Bill Lipton told Gotham Gazette at Thursday's rally.

The deal with frustrated progressive activists and labor union leaders, who make up the WFP, was in part brokered by Mayor Bill de Blasio after the WFP threatened

«I hope to follow in Tom's progressive, activist footsteps and am humbled by his comments,» Hoylman said.

Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon launched her challenge to two - term incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo by calling him a fake Democrat who has governed like a Republican and only takes progressive stances when they are politically expedient or he has no choice.

Democratic hopefuls occupy a wide swatch of the political spectrum, from moderates like Tedra Cobb to more progressive candidates like Patrick Nelson, a Stillwater - based activist and former legislative aide who has largely adopted many of the campaign platforms highlighted by Funiciello, including sharply deriding the role of money in politics and calling for a less interventionist U.S. foreign policy.

He also said the party has committed to incorporating ideas and platforms pushed for by a vocal group of progressive activists.

Cuomo too has been under pressure to reunify the two warring sides from activists from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party who feel he has emboldened the Senate GOP by not doing enough to bring intraparty peace in the chamber.

In a race that cost over $ 30 million, $ 25 million from outside groups, Torlakson was backed by labor unions and progressive activists while Tuck got the support of establishment newspapers and, according to one source, «30 donors who gave on average $ 267,000 each, including real estate developer William Bloomfield, Jr., Broad Foundation founder Eli Broad, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Emerson Collective Chair Laurene Powell Jobs.»

But when school districts were told by states around 2011 that they would have to change their curricula to fit the Core — states had to overhaul their overall standards and testing plans first — opposition exploded, first from tea - party activists, then from progressives who chaffed under Washington - driven, test - fixated education.

According to the book's description, a «cult of progressive environmentalism» has «swept the globe,» and modern climate science «has been seized by activists who put their political agenda ahead of scientific rigor and objectivity.»

Stop the ideological clap trap driven by so called Progressives and environmental activists that governments are forced to respond to.

While I'd read a lot about race and privilege in the past, I'd never discussed these concepts with so many people from such a wide variety of backgrounds, and even though we were all activists with progressive views, I was truly shocked by how fraught our conversations were.