Sentences with phrase «by the activist organization»

If the climate bible includes significant mistakes, if it uses newspaper & magazine articles to make its case, if it relies on literature generated by activist organizations — then it is rather a different animal from the uber - respectable paragon of virtue so many journalists have described.

These programs begin with the participation of teenagers taught by volunteers who are provided with teaching curriculum which are mostly designed by activist organizations like the Mothers against Drunk Driving.

Not exact matches

Apple and Amazon were pressured by activists to stop streaming content from the National Rifle Association through the organization's NRAtv channel.

One of the most powerful examples of eye contact is in a video done by activist Jae West and her team at Liberators International, an organization that aims «to coordinate, record and distribute monthly global acts of freedom,» and whose YouTube channel is filled with many daring acts of kindness and awareness - raising.

A recent survey on corporate reputation conducted by the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) showed that nearly 50 % of the companies who responded had been targeted by activist citizen groups, and now engage with these non-governmental organizations in order to help improve public perceptions.

The creators of Signal, the encrypted messaging app widely used throughout security community — as well as by journalists, activists, and others seeking to stymie government surveillance — announced on Wednesday a major change to the organization's makeup.

In 2015 the organization, Lesbians Who Tech, honored her work as a technologist and activist by naming a coding scholarship to recognize her work and her part in the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

Named National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year in 2014, Galpin has taken the world by storm founding the nonprofit Mountain2Mountain, the activist organization Combat Apathy and the Afghan cycling program Strength in Numbers.

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.

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He points to the growth of bio-regionalism, «green» political organizations, and confrontations by activist ecological groups such as Greenpeace and Earth First!

He received little support from Republicans in Congress or the party organization, but he overcame their opposition by arousing the passion of grassroots activists.

Unfortunately, I think most popular «newsertainment» programs approach issues from a fundamentally conservative point of view — whether it's Larry King looking at anti-vaccine activist Jenni McCarthy like she just landed from Mars or John Stossel and his pals at 20/20 turning their mustaches up at women making choices that haven't been approved — or made for them — by some male - dominated organization (like the AMA).

The police source narrated that they (police) acted on a petition filed by the three activists, including Dzifa Gunu, Stephen Atuk and Fred Adomako Williams and copied to the Inspector General of Police, Attorney General's Department, the General Legal Council and seven other organizations to investigate the matter.

Several labor leaders as well as the Cuomo campaign disputed the claims made by WFP State Director Bill Lipton that the governor threatened to work to end funding for the activist organizations as a result of the potential Nixon endorsement.

Check out this great use of Google Maps for advocacy, sent in by anti-political-robocall activist and social media enthusiast Shaun Dakin — it takes the contents of his organization's robocall database and displays them visually through a Maps interface, making them easy to browse through and to take in at a glance.

An organization or activist can learn about a piece of legislation in the morning, get fact sheets and statements online by noon, generate thousands of emails to Congress by happy hour and spark bloggers and journalists to write about it all along the way.

Check out this great use of Google Maps for advocacy, sent in by anti-political-robocall activist and social media enthusiast Shaun Dakin — it takes the contents of his organization's robocall database and displays them visually through a Maps interface, making them easy to browse...

Or will they find themselves bypassed by political candidates, activist organizations and NEW citizen voices who have learned to use video, social media and good old email lists to have the same influence that bloggers have had over the past few years?

Next, Karen Matheson and Eve Fox at M&R Strategic Services have prepared a report about the apparent declines many organizations have seen in the rates at which their activist and fundraising emails are opened by recipients.

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 Campaign Committee.

Control of the Senate by Republicans has been a key issue for liberals, a point of contention for Cuomo and activist organizations.

Community Voices Heard, a community activist organization started by single mothers on public assistance in NYC more than two decades ago, was at the forefront of the #NoCuts Coalition rally, along with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, State Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - 31st Senate District), and the leaders of several dozen grassroots, civic and labor organizations.

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.

«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.

The demo in 2003 took a lot of organisation, by numerous individuals, activists, anti-war organizations, all connected through personal contacts as well as social movements such as the European Social Forum and World Social Forum, which were platforms for discussion and organisation.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

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

Since last year, Americans Elect, a non-profit 501c4 organization led by investor and activist Peter Ackerman, has been quietly laying the foundation for a 2012 Internet - based political convention to pick a «centrist» ticket that will, if all goes to plan, get on all fifty state ballots and compete in a serious way with Barack Obama and whomever the GOP nominates next year.

It wasn't enough for longtime Independence Party activist and ex-state committee member Frank Morano to quit the party and publicly lambaste it on his way out the door, now he's trying to get the organization investigated by the Board of Elections, claiming its coffers have served as a sort of piggy bank for the personal interests of its leaders.

It's more of a top - down affair (a problem with the whole Republican Party, younger activists here lament), hosted by Americans for Prosperity, a major Republican - backing organization.

National Republicans have been dismissive of many of the protests, writing participants off as professional activists who have been paid off by national organizations.

Washington (CNN)-- A new report by a nonprofit organization estimates that there are 67,000 Tea Party activists throughout the country, which is at odds with estimates by a handful of conservatives including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School District.

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The event, talked up for weeks among local fracking foes, had its theatrical moments — two anti-fracking signs were displayed in the bleachers, one a huge banner with the website addresses of two activist organizations held by a man wearing a yellow haz - mat suit.

Speaking about the earliest political LGBT organization that was founded by Tim Sullivan in the late 1970s or early 1980s and how he was one the first LGBT activists in the Bronx.

Response to the ad has been fast and furious, discussed on news programs last night and rebutted by both national organizations and individual activists (BELOW).

To support the California Teachers Union in its fight to preserve due process and seniority rights in a lawsuit brought against it by an organization funded by a billionaire conservative activist;

Hundreds of community - based organizations and activist groups had sprung up, most run by women.

At an event in Berlin today, the organizations launched a new project to educate the public about animal studies, after harsh attacks by animal rights activists in recent years.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Just after midnight on 14 July, three female activists clad in white HAZMAT suits and wielding motorized grass trimmers broke into an agricultural test plot near the capital, Canberra, operated by CSIRO, Australia's preeminent research organization.

70 puppies were released after activists alerted the Indian government that the animals had been falsely described as «pets» by a contract organization seeking to import them

There is concern that increasing openness and transparency will provoke backlashes and trigger campaigns by militant activists and organizations opposing animal research.

So yesterday was Yogis for Haiti day, a call to action initiated by the excellent yoga activist organization, Off the Mat and Into the World.

While their training programs seem to make it possible for enthusiastic and recently - transformed yoga practitioners to bridge their yoga practice and activist aspirations, by many accounts, the organization doesn't equip people with some of the complexities of social justice work.

Of all the issues that were laid before me in this competition, I could not help but feel that by supporting this group of scientists and activists in their fight for the planet, we would also be promoting the ideas that knowledge / literacy is power — that other species should be treated with respect — that everyone deserves the basic rights of food, safety and equality — that despite our differences, our common ground is the planet we live on — and that unless we make a serious commitment to protect it, the problems of the future will be too big for any organization to tackle.

by Walter Chaw I'm offended by the marketing for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (hereafter Narnia 1)-- not the trailers (which are pedestrian) or the print ads, per se, but the campaign to pre-screen reels to churches and church groups, including Colorado's wildly divisive rightwing activist organization Focus on the Family.

The environmental one is clear, and it's voiced by Dustin Noble (John Krasinski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Damon), an environmental activist from a small organization that has photos of what fracking did to his family's farm (dead cows in a field) and a science demonstration for the local school of what could — or, as he believes, will — happen if fracking becomes the norm in their town.

«Cameron's passion is adult education, and as a student - activist at HGSE, he followed through on his passion for adult learners by establishing a new organization dedicated to this overlooked population of learners.