Sentences with phrase «coalition building from»

But McIntosh, who is now a lobbyist with Siemens AG, says Goffman remained involved in the climate legislation, offering advice on policy and coalition building from his decades working on acid rain and other issues.

Not exact matches

As the details of this plan become known, and as the political response builds from people who fear their taxes will be raised, and as they build a coalition with special interests who would lose out from other aspects of the proposal (like investors who do not like the proposed limitation on the deduction of business - interest expenses), this plan will become an enormous liability.

One of the most admirable strengths of Ms. Notley's government has been its ability to build broad and pragmatic coalitions that include champions from outside of the NDP's traditional sphere.

Fabricated accusations about a demonized enemy; failures of coalition building; acts of torture and barbarism performed by the alleged defenders of justice; misplaced expectations of popular support from a conquered people; an enemy unified by the very attacks intended to divide it; inadequate planning for postconquest rule; and rampant and chronic instability after victory has been won.

Second, Lori suggested using visual tools for coalition building; pictures really are worth a thousand words and Lori knows it; telling versus showing is a great lesson that I took away from Lori's presentation.

«This event brings together a number of Coalition partners from all backgrounds who share a common goal of helping residents to build and sustain a healthy and inclusive community far into the future.

The Mayor made the announcement this morning at Our Lady Of Angels Church, on Webb Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, before a crowd of Milbank tenants and organizers from the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, who have been fighting for almost a year to draw the city's attention to the deteriorating buildings (here's a short summary for some background.)

And the community has begun to respond, with letters pouring in from a variety of important players demanding that a new position be funded to ensure that Kawamoto remains the keystone of this painstakingly built coalition — what New Paltz Police Department chief Joseph Snyder terms «the captain of the ship.»

Coalition plans to allow gay couples to conduct their civil partnership in religious buildings have met resistance from the Catholic Church.

Specifically, the Jimenez and the Coalition, which held a similar protest at the new stadium in early June, want: the old stadium torn down by the end of the year; one represtentative of their organization on the advisory board that distributes the $ 800,000 in community funds; the replacement parks to be built safe and green (no artifical turf, they say); and for the community to share in the profits of memorabilia sold from the old stadium.

«But now I see, from the last few years working independently and the great coalitions we've built, that we do need a little push in power.»

At 9:15 a.m., the Parkash Tenant Coalition, a coalition of tenants from 15 of landlord Ved Parkash's buildings, publicly announces its formation, holds a press conference, and rallies with the support of NYC Public Advocate Tish James to seek justice, after they claim 2,369 violations in 11 of his 43 buildings, Bronx Housing Court, 1118 Grand Concourse, tCoalition, a coalition of tenants from 15 of landlord Ved Parkash's buildings, publicly announces its formation, holds a press conference, and rallies with the support of NYC Public Advocate Tish James to seek justice, after they claim 2,369 violations in 11 of his 43 buildings, Bronx Housing Court, 1118 Grand Concourse, tcoalition of tenants from 15 of landlord Ved Parkash's buildings, publicly announces its formation, holds a press conference, and rallies with the support of NYC Public Advocate Tish James to seek justice, after they claim 2,369 violations in 11 of his 43 buildings, Bronx Housing Court, 1118 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

Building on a New York Post report from August, the coalition noted 45 applications for new charter school co-locations were rejected by the city.

But we believe that English has the pragmatic zeal to pull it off, based on her record of building coalitions to take on major issues from policing to development.»

It remains to be seen whether de Blasio will be amenable to implementing some of the ideas from Brawley's coalition — Metro IAF has worked with the city to build multiple affordable housing complexes before.

A few of course parroted the distortions the «No» campaign was built on or gave wanting to do in Nick Clegg as an excuse for voting against, but far more voted AV down because it had become too tied up with the politics of the Coalition and thus divorced from a wider and more genuine discussion of constitutional reform.

To get things done in New York, he said, «you've got to build coalitions with people who are from different boroughs, who may come from different backgrounds.»

The injunction was submitted by the Chelsea Flatiron Coalition, one of several groups opposing the homeless shelter, to prevent the building from opening before a hearing with the Department of Homeless Services July 22.

So, in order to build a coalition that could give him a chance at the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, he'll most likely need strong support from Republican establishment types, like those who formed the core of Romney's formidable operation.

Responding to a question from coalition member Mitchell Grubler (of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors), Squadron suggested he'd like to see the building saved.

Building a reach unparalleled in British politics, bring together an electoral coalition that saw safe Tory seats tumble, leafy Labour marginals strengthen, and winning the 18 - 24 demographic in Scotland away from the SNP and the dead end of nationalist politics.

But the Lib Dems will differentiate themselves from the Tories on the economy in two areas: fighting their coalition partners to make clear the rich shoulder more of the burden, and pressing for more growth measures by setting new targets for house building.

The traditional labourist message of using state power to seek to protect individuals from the power of capital, and to democratically steer the economy towards meeting the needs of people not of corporations was, and is, an inherently modern one; and a mission around which a progressive electoral coalition could, and can, be built.

Farron has done nothing to build on some of Nick Clegg's smart, centrist positioning while detoxifying the party from its shambolic U-turns and dreadfully naïve politics when in coalition.

Built by: The Mexica, the ethnic group that ruled the Aztec Empire — itself a coalition of peoples across Central America from the mid-1300s until the Spanish conquest began in 1519.

Similar efforts are taking place nationwide, such as a coalition of African - Americans and Latinos stopping a sewage treatment plant from being built in their Northern Manhattan neighborhood, and a multicultural group in Boston helping local communities fight, among other things, a diesel power plant slated to be built next to an elementary school.

We are looking forward to working together in 2018 to develop new and engaging global campaigns by integrating our activity, teams and support bases, building on what we have learned from the coalition's previous campaigns.

Organized by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlight.

Borrowing from New York's playbook, Illinois funders, advocates, and parents built an extensive coalition of religious organizations, community groups, and, surprisingly, some blue - collar labor unions (not teacher unions) to advocate for the reform.

A coalition of Texas public - interest groups, education organizations, and unions this month called on the Reagan Administration to order the Environmental Protection Agency to play a more active role in the removal of asbestos from school buildings.

A coalition of nonprofit organizations and financial institutions announced that they had cobbled together a $ 36 million fund from a mix of public and private sources to pay for buildings to house five to seven charter schools in disadvantaged communities.

Aside from being an «intense bolt of activity,» Keppel by all accounts was gifted at building coalitions and putting people at ease.

Officials from the Education Commission of the States and the Coalition of Essential Schools last week announced plans for an unusual joint project that will link state - level education reforms with building - level restructuring efforts.

Having cancelled the Building Schools For The Future funding Todmorden High School and Calder High were to receive under the previous Labour government, the Tories and Lib Dem Coalition now deliver this double blow to the Upper Valley despite years of promises and pledges from our local MP.»

Through her leadership and coalition building, the model has expanded (PDF) since 2000 from one innovative elementary school to a network of seven schools — with an eighth coming in the fall 2013 and four more in the works — in three regions of the city.

Ann designed and oversaw ASD's multi-year research project on Second Order Change, partnering with CITC (Cook Inlet Tribal Council), the Devereux Center for Resilient Children, NCBI (National Coalition Building Institute), and AIR (American Institutes for Research), highlighting student academic and school community benefits resulting from a focus on SEL development.

Since then, coalitions have worked to build a solid infrastructure to push past the politics and policies that shield billionaires like Gov. Bruce Rauner from paying their fair share; defeat the lie of right - to - work promulgated by right - wing ideologues; dispute the unfair characterizations of retirement security; and support the need for democracy in Chicago Public Schools.

21st Century Charter School will create and host a monthly after school literacy program for children in grades 1 to 3 called Building Literacy with Legos with help from a Ken Woodruff Mini Grant awarded by the Northwest Indiana Literacy Coalition.

This workshop featured four speakers: one about increasing adoptions in shelters, one about decreasing the number of puppies from puppy mills sold in pet stores, one from HSUS's Pets for Life program about helping under served pet owners, and one from Coalition to Unchain Dogs, a group that builds fences for dogs who previously lived on a chain.

We believe that the animal advocacy movement could benefit from building stronger coalitions with other movements.

As a result of coalition - building, we can learn from other movements and perhaps even draw new activists into the animal advocacy movement.

Presentations range from the 101 level to advanced, across eight tracks ranging in subject from fundraising to animal behavior, and from building a volunteer force to building no - kill community coalitions.

Chicago Artists Coalition & Hyde Park Art Center are pleased to present a day - long convening bringing together teaching artists from across the city for professional development and community - building around critical issues in teaching artistry today.

Jaclyn Jacunski, an established local artist known for using materials scavenged from building sites, often in gentrifying neighborhoods poses for a portrait with her latest maze installation Friday, Aug. 19, 2016 at the Chicago Artists Coalition gallery in Chicago.

Since January 1943 an agreement existed between the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a coalition which would culminate in the combining of their collections of American art in a new building, paid for from the endowment of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

His vision of the «green jobs» benefits from stimulus spending — focused on near - term, visible work like caulking windows — was far too truncated, and he lost the chance to build a broader coalition around making a sustained energy quest America's new imperative.

Part two focuses on Bob Inglis, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina who's trying to build a conservative coalition focused on putting a price on carbon.

As I've written repeatedly, it's tough to sustain a focus on long - term needs, like sustained research on the frontiers of photovoltaics and energy storage, when congressional politics is about building short - term coalitions by satisfying demands presented by influential players, from coal companies to unions.

Every additional week of coalition building has resulted in ever more compromise in the legislation, according to various reports from Kate Sheppard, Darren Samuelsohn and others most closely tracking the effort.

The coalition pushed efforts to build momentum for the Clean Power Ordinance among local policymakers, and the measure received support from 35 aldermen and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.