Sentences with phrase «change advocates from»

Climate change advocates from various sectors urged world governments to «walk their climate talk» as they launched the Climate Walk, dubbed as «A People's Walk for Climate Justice.»

Not exact matches

During the 1990s, predictions abounded that demographic change would eventually bankrupt the Canada Pension Plan, prompting some to advocate raising the qualification age from 65 to 67.

Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

Last month's EMS on the Hill event brought together emergency medical services practitioners from around to country to advocate for meaningful change in the industry.

In a highly publicized pushback on flexible work, Yahoo made the move to ban work - from - home options in 2013 — a change the company unveiled in an internal memo that advocated the advantages of «working side - by - side.»

Robinson introduced the Distressed Animals Act in the legislature on Tuesday and was joined by advocates from the BC SPCA in support of the proposed changes.

She understood humanity enough that, while she advocated her idiotic and wrongheaded sense of aesthetics to groups of intellectuals, and while she did seek approval from those same groups and hoped to change a few minds, she did not care (nor did she ever expect) the rest of us lowlifes to ever pick up the banner of Objectivism and run with it.

From his vantage point as president of Harvard, Bok analyzes the dilemmas of liberal education, showing how its coexistence with the demands of professional schools in times of change and uncertainty requires its advocates to set it on a sound course.

The system advocates seem, in comparison, more at home in chaos, with its paradoxical promise of integrity.55 How the change from disorder to wholeness occurs is the second characteristic of organic systems approaches: organization development.

One can not walk into an American bookstore without finding a plethora of books, from every different angle, decrying some national problem or crisis, and advocating changes for the better.

One concern is that many of the vocal comments in today's Church on the issue are from Christians who have embraced the gay lifestyle and are very much advocating a change of theology.

As the Nazis willfully altered the meaning of German words for ideological reasons, and the Soviet Communists altered the meaning of Russian words (or coined expressions like «former persons) for ideological reasons, so too the advocates of assisted suicide want to banish words like «suicide» and «killing» from discussions of the subject in order to gain an ideological advantage, and same - sex «marriage» advocates want to change the meaning of «marriage» for ideological reasons.

Dante's Beatrice finally turns her face toward God and away from the poet, a step which even the most vigorous advocate for this - worldly selfhood, history and change must admit is fitting.

However, if the vulgar incomes of the richest Americans result from relaxed social norms rather than from productive forces inherent in the market economy, as Krugman surmises, then social and political changes, such as those advocated by Hollenbach and Hicks, can extend the structure of accountability to these upper echelons of the income scale.

-- Advocate for change in mentality to the players (apart from Sanchez ofcourse whose got the right attidute)

As a fellow advocate for change, l can see you get your inspiration from crisis Konstantin.

We are not the first to advocate for a name change,» Nicholas Courtney, an organizer from Tacoma, Wash., and a descendant of the Makah tribe, said.

I understand why a breastfeeding advocate, someone who makes their living trying to change things and trying to educate and support mothers, would not want to (or should not want to, whichever word you want to use) work for a site / company or take money from a site / company that uses formula advertisements.

This understanding can help you to advocate for better lunches at your child's school, or simply understand the changes you may be hearing about from your child.

It is time that we recognize the harm caused by the mercy rule, and advocate for change by teaching athletes to learn from defeat rather than hide from it, to understand that losing is neither shameful nor embarrassing, to embrace competition of all levels, and to value the positive life lessons gained through all of youth sports.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

It details Engh's amazing rise from Depression - era poverty on the shores of Eastern Maryland to confront a series of life - changing events that ultimately led him to creating the National Alliance for Youth Sports, which has been the nation's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children for more than 30 years.

From the professionals putting in long hours to the advocates bringing mental health awareness to the national stage, this year's honorees inspire us with their passion for changing the way we understand and treat our children.

Cooking Up Change was sponsored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and the national Farm to School Network as part of the annual «Taking Root» confab in Detroit that gathered school food and farm to school advocates from around the country.

The acronym stands for «Parents Educators & Advocates Connection for Healthy School Food,» and the site is designed «to provide a roadmap for parents and others wanting to get started making changes in their own communities, as well as steering them away from common myths and misunderstandings that can waste their time and energy.»

Because you've been such a supportive and friendly group from the very start, I've gradually found my footing as an advocate, becoming more focused on particular topics and — I hope — more effective in helping to drive change.

Join our Facebook community to connect with youth sports safety advocates from across the world and stay up to day with the newest trends in youth safety and making real changes in your community.

Cuomo will be joined this morning on a telephone press conference by good government advocates who will add their voices to his call for pension fund reform that would change management of the fund from a sole trusteeship to a board system.

At 11:45 a.m., state Sen. Sue Serino and advocates hold a news conference to urge the passage of legislation prohibiting insurance plans and pharmacy benefit managers from changing drug coverages in the middle of a coverage year, outside the Senate Chambers, third floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Opposition to changes to the state's Scaffold Law remains a heated issue in Albany, as evidence by the criticism from some advocates of the Lawsuit Reform Alliance's BBQ fundraiser held last night.

Mr Johnson also advocated a change of focus, shifting the approach from treatment to prevention.

But, after nearing losing his seat to NYC Councilman Jim Gennaro in 2008, Padavan is facing a tough challenge this fall from former NYC Councilman Tony Avella — an outspoken advocate of change if there ever was one.

The package passed despite pushback from Councilmembers and police reform advocates regarding a late compromise to Torres» bill, which was changed to exempt low - level encounters and traffic stops completely.

In an attempt to change that, advocates from Compassion and Choices joined state senators and other legislators Tuesday morning outside the Senate lobby on the third floor of the state capitol.

«People believed in the change that Laura was advocating,» said Patrick Halpin, a Democrat who served as Suffolk County executive from 1988 to 1992, and now a lobbyist at Mercury Public Affairs in Manhattan.

What is baffling for anarchists is how moderate republicans, having uncovered such a radical conception of freedom as non-domination, fail to advocate the kind of radical economic and political changes needed to create a society free from domination.

As part of the campaign, they have released a minute long video that features excerpts from several of Gillibrand's senate floor speeches where she advocates for changes in the Health Care reform bill to provide more protections for women's reproductive rights, more coverage for pregnant women, and funding for women's health clinics.

I have yet to hear of anyone from Scottish Labour advocate such a change for Holyrood, something which consistent logic would surely demand?

But community advocates, city planners and business groups have expressed concerns about the changes for a number of reasons: from how much manufacturing space needs to be set aside and who will make sure that the space is being used how it's intended, to the affordability of those spaces.

The 40 - plus reform proposals received a mixed reaction from elected officials and good government advocates, but still indicate a number of changes that many have been advocating for years.

The changes, aimed at reducing violence in the city's troubled jail system, sparked criticism from some prisoner - rights advocates who called the policy changes unfair and counterproductive.

At noon, advocates from AQE, Strong Economy for All, New York Communities for Change, VOCAL - NY and Citizen Action New York publicly criticize Paul Tudor Jones, the founder of the poverty - fighting Robin Hood Foundation, who spent millions to bankroll Republicans in the state Senate who oppose raising the minimum wage and criminal justice reforms, Robin Hood Foundation, 826 Broadway, Manhattan.

There is a growing drive from local government advocates as well to make some changes to the cap that could be coupled with mandate relief or even a boost in state aid.

Democratic donor and reform advocate Bill Samuels told Kaitlyn Ross during a CapTon interview last Friday that he thinks the Legislature purposely missed a deadline for passing a constitutional amendment that would have provided real redistricting reform and anything that occurs from this point forward won't be real change.

Two years ago, Cahill said he decided «to change my position» (from benign opposition to advocate).

The new law introduced by Public Advocate James will change this outdated traffic law to reflect how all New Yorkers operate and would provide the right of way to pedestrians crossing from a median when a numerical countdown has already begun to count down.

Shelley Mayer is the Change We Need From Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abFrom Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abfrom White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abuse.

After some paid leave advocates quietly voiced concerns, Cuomo in his 30 - day budget amendments this month changed the proposal so that workers can receive up to 66 percent of their weekly pay, up from 50 percent, once the plan is fully phased in.

Reform advocates collected signatures from New Yorkers Saturday to expedite proposed changes.

An estimated 100 students will participate in a variety of workshops and issue briefings; listen to advocates speak about grassroots activism and social change; and network with peers from across the state.