Sentences with phrase «citizen activists»

We will be joined by other citizen activists from other groups opposing vouchers.

A coalition of citizen activist groups including Citizen Action and the Working Families Party used the call as a platform to state their case for establishing a public financing system for New York state elections.

«This is pure harassment by fossil fuel barons against a non-violent, peaceful citizen activist who is a leader in the fight to protect our water, air and land against degradation by these gas companies.

The U.S. People's Delegation Town Hall will provide a venue for local elected officials — mayors, council members, and governors — to come together with citizen activists and voters to discuss the road to true climate action and to discuss a vision for what localized implementation should look like in the United States.

Actors responsible for each process are different: formal government institutions (ministries, political parties and military) as well as civil society organizations are central to the state building process whereas the complex process of consolidating nationhood falls on the shoulders of more informal entities (citizen activists as well as civil society groups).

As a first step, we mailed 300 sampling kits to citizen activists in Flint.

NBC's Chuck Todd put it most dramatically when he described how the press corps felt «outmanned» by the political campaigns, since they had fewer resources than before to cover more of everything — bigger campaigns, more states in play, more videos, more spin emails, more citizen activists, etc..

A central online hub, usually a conventional website but sometimes (and particularly for citizen activists) a Facebook page, YouTube channel or blog.

ALBANY — A Washington County citizen activist is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders to try to void expansion of casino gambling approved in June.

While the party's executive committee is dominated by major labor unions — it includes leaders of SEIU 1199 and the Communications Workers of America — most state committee people are engaged and active citizen activists.

WAMC's Alan Chartock in Conversation with Ned Sullivan, President of Scenic Hudson, Daniel Mackay from the Preservation League of New York State, and citizen activist Ian Solomon.

Some might see the film as lionizing Gore, but it's a fascinating primer on how to engage and train citizen activists, from the grass roots to the corridors of power.

In this example, citizen activists appear to be following the former (Bush) Administration's anti-science play book.

Individual citizens» use of email, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter and every other online tool imaginable to promote their causes and candidates has exploded, and campaigns will ignore the real potential of citizen activists (including your email - forwarding uncle — see the results of E-Voter Survey Question 7) at their own peril.

I wish I could ask him what might happen if principled men and women ever decided to overwhelm the system with citizen activists (see William Wilberforce or Martin Luther King, Jr.) who could bring torches to illumine the darkest recesses and corruptions of the world's system.

Also, President Obama gave a shout - out to citizen activists in his announcement of the deal last night, both of the digital and analog varieties, who'd flooded Twitter at his requrest and crashed Congressional websites and the House switchboard this week:

All stakeholders matter now: the community, politicians, citizen activists, online reviewers, shareholders, and others - even if their interests may be complex and conflicting.

I found the individuals and groups working for school food change — both paid staff and parent and citizen activists — to be so extraordinary, so dedicated, patient, persistant and creative that there seems to me little likelihood that more typical communities will achieve such improvements under current federal rules and within current funding constraints....

In fact, it's usually more effective to print them out and hand - deliver them, particularly as part of a visit from a lobbyist or citizen activist.

Howie Hawkins applauded the citizen activists who are protesting to protect Seneca Lake and their local drinking water from Crestwood's gas storage facility.

Elected officials and citizen activists have spent years defending the West Seneca facility against Albany attempts to close it, under several governors.

Southeast Wisconsin business owners, transportation planners, elected officials and citizen activists...

Mayor and council representatives, judicial candidates, sheriff candidates, school board candidates, local assessor candidates, county coroner candidates, local political committees, grassroots issue campaigns, union elections, non-profit organizations, citizen activists, lobbying groups, issue campaigns, referendums and more.

Faso in the release described Move Forward New York as a «left - leaning organization of citizen activists.»

But ultimately this historic agreement is the legacy of all the citizen activists — at Scenic Hudson, NRDC, Clearwater, IPSEC, WESPAC and countless others — who have fought so tirelessly over the years to safeguard public health and to protect an endangered environment.»

West Seneca's board was downsized after a campaign by another citizen activist, Kevin Gaughan, to reduce the size and cost of local government.

I think the exact opposite has happened,» said Dan Warren, the citizen activist who is leading the petition drive for the Committee to Restore Representation in West Seneca.

Last week, End Common Core Massachusetts, a committee of citizen activists, teachers, and parents, announced that it has gathered over 30,000 signatures in support of placing Common Core on the state ballot in November — almost 20,000 more than the 10,792 signatures required at this stage of the petition process.

Vermont: A citizen activist has filed suit in Washington County superior court demanding that a government contractor disclose how $ 85 million of public money was spent on developing information technology used in Vermont's health care system.

Democracy itself is based on the principle of the citizen activist.

This event will be in town hall format and citizen activists, policy makers, and delegate members of the U.S. People's Delegation will ask questions of elected officials.

More than 400,000 citizen activists, including more than 25,000 Sierra Club members, joined in what is being called the largest climate march in history.

We're now focusing on our own responsibility as citizen activists, inside and outside of election cycles, and it's rooted in us telling our stories and bringing other Americans in.

Yet from supporting bike to work day through greening Madison Square to getting serious about physically separated bike lanes, the planning authorities, citizen activists and even politicians of New York City seem to have put their weight behind pedestrian, bike and mass - transit friendly planning.